A mother, brutalized by federal agents who got the wrong house, seemed to be channeling “Merchant of Venice” in her response.
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Pricked and Bleeding Thanks to Trump
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On Portia, Milosz, and Pardoning Trump
Should Biden pardon Trump. This article, citing “Merchant of Venice” and a Milosz poem, argues no.
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I Might Come To Please Him Yet
Richard Wilbur uses proofreading terms to convey God’s mercy in “The Proof.”
Morrison: Where America Went Wrong
Toni Morrison’s 2008 novel “A Mercy” seems to start with a promising vision of America before everything goes wrong. It’s as though she starts with the optimism of the Obama years and then predicts the Trump backlash.
Immigrants Touched by Grace
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.
(Limitless Pity Makes All Large & New)
Spiritual Sunday Today’s Old Testament reading is the episode in the Book of Jonah after that conflicted man returns from the whale episode and this time does what God has commanded him to do, which is to prophesy to the people of Nineveh about their wickedness. In the Keith Schlegel poem I have chosen, one […]
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