Tag Archives: "I Too Sing America"

America: Indivisible Despite the Divides

By Robin Bates | Published: November 4, 2024

As the American election hangs in the balance, Alicia Ostriker holds two contradictory visions of America in balance.

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Holding America to Its Ideals

By Robin Bates | Published: July 3, 2022

Whitman and Hughes, together, remind us of the American promise.

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Use Poetry to Teach American Civics

By Robin Bates | Published: January 12, 2021

Poetry can be used to teach core American values, which we need at the moment more than ever.

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Lit for Understanding the Biden Voter

By Robin Bates | Published: December 8, 2020

To understand “the Joe Biden” voter, start with August Wilson’s “Fences.”

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We All Sing America

By Robin Bates | Published: July 3, 2020

Between them, Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes do a good job of defining America.

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Whitman & Hughes Hear America Singing

By Robin Bates | Published: July 4, 2011

Today, for July 4, I offer up two ultra-American poems. Walt Whitman embraces multitudes” in “I Hear America Singing,” and Langston Hughes, in an addendum, mentions some of those Americans that, in the past, have been forgotten. May we all remember that America is astounding in its willingness to open itself to all people.

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