Tag Archives: Patriotism

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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Flag of Freedom, Union of Light and Law

By Robin Bates | Published: January 13, 2021

Along with their violence, Capitol Hill insurrectionists desecrated the American flag in multiple ways. Whittier reminds us what the flag really means.

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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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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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