Rita Dove’s “Claudette Colvin Goes to Work” honors those anonymous actors in significant historical change.
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The Bus Boycott’s Invisible Actors
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The Chaotic Joys of a Family Reunion
As our family gathers for a post-
Christmas reunion, I find some of the joyous chaos captured in a Rita Dove poem.
No Flowers, No Leaves, November
An antidote to feeling gloomy in November is to embrace the gloom by reading gloomy November poems. I offer several here.
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Feeding on Beauty in the Midst of Horror
If music sustained camp prisoners during the Holocaust, as Rita Dove describes in this poem, the arts can sustain us during our current pandemic.
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