Dorothy Parker and Scott Bates have poems that see the nativity from the vantage point of commoners.
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I Never Saw a Sweeter Child
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Christmas Eve Updated
Christmas Eve A Christmas Eve poem by my father, probably inspired by Jean Luc Godard’s controversial film Hail Mary. Item By Scott Bates They came in on Interstate 93 Past a dozen signs of NO VACANCY And finally stopped at the Holiday Inn Where she stayed in the car while he went in And was politely […]
Joy of Life Revealed in Love’s Creation
In Auden’s “Christmas Oratorio,” the shepherds stand in for the working class, who find love and personhood in the birth of Jesus.
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Jesus Lies Enclosed but Fills All Place
John Donne’s poem on the Nativity shows us a way out of our imprisoned existence.
