Tag Archives: immigrants

Immigrants Face a Sophie’s Choice

By Robin Bates | Published: March 8, 2017

Republicans have recently been outdoing themselves in cruelty, both regarding immigration and health care. William Styron and William Blake weigh in.

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Trump’s Crusoe Wall Goes Up in Airports

By Robin Bates | Published: January 29, 2017

This past weekend so a flurry of illegal and unconstitutional executive orders that created chaos in airports and elsewhere as travelers from certain countries found themselves in detention. Defoe captures versions of such dramas in “Robinson Crusoe.”

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Immigrants Touched by Grace

By Robin Bates | Published: April 7, 2016

Philip Levine gives us a poem which serves as a reproof to those in the GOP who bash immigrants. We see much needed moments of humanity, important to remember in this election season.

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A Guest Worthy To Be Here

By Robin Bates | Published: September 5, 2015

Jesus learned to accept a Canaanite woman at his table and George Herbert learns that he belongs at that table. We can use them as models as we face refugees and immigrants.

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Read Poems for Life w/o Boundaries

By Robin Bates | Published: July 7, 2015

U. S. Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, in “Let Me Tell You What a Poem Brings,” holds up poetry as far superior to consumer society. A poem is “a way to attain a life without boundaries.”

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July 4th Picnic: America’s Jumbled Flavors

By Robin Bates | Published: July 4, 2012

Just as immigrants have contributed to our food, so they have contributed to our language.

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