Book bans were on the rise in the 2023-24 school year–sometimes for understandable reasons, sometimes not.
Tag Archives: Robin Bates
Unexpected Book Bans
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Thoughts on Book Bans
Books are unsettling, which is why they are often banned. But we need to be unsettled to get a handle on the chaos that confronts us.
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On Literature’s Transformational Power
My book “Better Living through Literature” gets released today. It is the culmination of my life’s work.
Colts Football Doggerel Annotated
Pierre Garcon after the Colts’ conference title win I promised an annotation for my weekend piece of doggerel in praise of the Indianapolis Colts so here it is. And while I’m focusing on such poetry, let me mention a similar endeavor that my cousin Dan Bates undertook in praise of the Boston Red Sox of […]
Football Doggerel in Praise of the Colts
There’s no limit to the number of purposes to which poetry can be put, including a celebration of one’s favorite team. Here’s a piece of doggerel–which is to say, light comic verse–that I’ve written in honor of the Indianapolis Colts, who will be playing in the up-coming Super Bowl. I’ll annotate any obscure references […]
