A Scott Bates poem on a miraculous sighting during the annual Christmas bird count.
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A Roc Sighting in Xmas Bird Count
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Dec. 7 & Watching One’s Son Go to War
Today being Pearl Harbor Day, I share a Gwendolyn Brooks poem about a mother who loses her son to the war.
Tony Bennett, WWII, and Race Activism
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
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
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
Scott Bates’s “Maple Dance” never gets old.
The Ballad of Bathtub Gin
In this parody of Kipling’s “Gunga Din,” Scott Bates sings of bathtub gin.
A Poem Describing Literature Lovers
In “The Retiring Candle,” Scott Bates says it’s okay to hide your light under a bushel–as long as you have a good book, that is.
Fable of the Third Christmas Camel
In this wonderful Epiphany fable by my father, a camel leaves the three magi to live the live envisioned in what they found in Bethlehem.
