Hope is needed in the face to emotional exhaustion over Trumpism. Here are three poems about finding hope in dark times.
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Three Poems for Surviving Trump
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Despite Trump, “The Land Holds Us Still”
On this one-month anniversary of the 2016 election, I look back at two authors who meditated on what to do next immediately after hearing the news. Terry Tempest Williams looks to nature while Zadie Smith looks to the music to be found in multiethnic harmony.
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Finding Hope in a Captured Fish
Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish” works as a powerful meditation on hope.
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What Does It Mean to Hope against Hope?
What does it mean to hope against hope? Emily Dickinson and an analytic philosopher weigh in.
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Holding On to Radical Hope
The Crow nation used a vision to hold on to its identity in the face of white threats. Literature can function in similar ways.
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Hope Springs Eternal in the NFL Draft
The NFL draft perfectly exemplifies Alexander Pope’s passage about hope.
Finding Hope amidst the Growing Gloom
Hardy’s “Darkling Thrush” conjures up hope in dark times.
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