Ralph Waldo Emerson speaks to America’s core ideals in “A Nation’s Strength.” Now we just have to honor them.
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Can We Love the Morning Again?
In this poem Levertov talks about the difficulties of loving the morning again after a night of horrors.
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Use Poetry to Teach American Civics
Poetry can be used to teach core American values, which we need at the moment more than ever.
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The Frolic Architecture of the Snow
Ralph Waldo Emerson sees a snow-storm as a master architect and “fierce artificer.”
The Zen of an Old Growth Forest
Biologist David Haskell approaches forests in a way that is both scientific and poetic.
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