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Lucille Clifton on Turning Red

By Robin Bates | Published: March 28, 2022

Pixar’s “Turning Red” brings to mind a series of Lucille Clifton poems where she too looks at the red dimensions of womanhood–and how to handle them.

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Rightwing Evangelicals Bind with Briars

By Robin Bates | Published: October 29, 2017

Studies show that college does not turn young people away from religion. In fact, literature and humanities courses can strengthen faith.

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The Jordan River Continues to Inspire

By Robin Bates | Published: November 2, 2014

The River Jordan, an inspiring image for American slaves, has worked it was into contemporary African American poems, including those of Lucille Clifton.

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Rolled Round with Rocks, Stones and Trees

By Robin Bates | Published: March 4, 2010

William Wordsworth One day Robinson Crusoe, the next William Blake, the next William Wordsworth. Thanks to four or five classes cancelled due to snow, my Introduction to Literature class is careening through the 18th and early 19th centuries. But we still had time to stop and contemplate Wordsworth’s wondrous lyric “A slumber did my spirit […]

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