Tag Archives: Scott Bates

Dreams of Flying South

By Robin Bates | Published: January 23, 2024

In “The Hunchback Who Thought He Was a Swallow,” Scott Bates features a poor man who dreams of transcending his earthly limitations.

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Christmas at Cohen’s Garage

By Robin Bates | Published: December 24, 2023

Scott Bates updates the birth of Jesus, having him born in a gas station.

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A Roc Sighting in Xmas Bird Count

By Robin Bates | Published: December 14, 2023

A Scott Bates poem on a miraculous sighting during the annual Christmas bird count.

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Dec. 7 & Watching One’s Son Go to War

By Robin Bates | Published: December 6, 2023

Today being Pearl Harbor Day, I share a Gwendolyn Brooks poem about a mother who loses her son to the war.

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Tony Bennett, WWII, and Race Activism

By Robin Bates | Published: July 23, 2023

Learning about late singer Tony Bennett’s life has opened up new insights into my father, also a World War II vet and civil rights activist.

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On Homer and Rethinking My Father

By Robin Bates | Published: March 8, 2023

The famous scene of Hector and Andromache has given me a new perspective on my father’s fatalism.

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Jesus as Refugee

By Robin Bates | Published: December 22, 2022

Two poems that focus on Jesus as a refugee: Scott Bates’s “Witness” and Malcolm Guite’s “Refugee.”

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The Annual Maple Dance

By Robin Bates | Published: November 28, 2022

Scott Bates’s “Maple Dance” never gets old.

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The Ballad of Bathtub Gin

By Robin Bates | Published: August 8, 2022

In this parody of Kipling’s “Gunga Din,” Scott Bates sings of bathtub gin.

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