Tag Archives: Simone Biles

Kamala Harris’s Moment to Rise

By Robin Bates | Published: August 22, 2024

Angelou’s “Still I Rise” is the right poem to celebrate Kamala Harris

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Simone Biles Rises

By Robin Bates | Published: July 28, 2024

Gymnast GOAT Biles has a tattoo of a line from Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise” to inspire her.

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What To Make of a Diminished Biles

By Robin Bates | Published: August 6, 2021

For Simone Biles’s fall from Olympic heights, two Robert Frost poems and Le Guin’s Earthsea Tetralogy bring some needed perspective.

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