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Lose Yourself Inside This Soft World

By Robin Bates | Published: June 15, 2024

Be mindful of the world, Mary Oliver tells us in “Mindful,” a poem that echoes Wordsworth and Hopkins.

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Why Literary Suffering Made Plato Nervous

By Robin Bates | Published: February 5, 2013

Plato worried that Greek tragedy causes us to act irrationally.

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Poetry for Mourning Michael Jackson

By Robin Bates | Published: July 8, 2009

I am one of those strange people who has lived much of his life without a television, so I was unaware of the phenomenon of Michael Jackson for much of my life. But my family acquired a television in 1991, and even though Jackson was no longer in his glory years, his music videos still […]

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