The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill” was perfect in its rottenness in the same way that William Carlos Williams’s rotten apple is perfect.
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Big Beautiful Bill, Perfect in Its Rottenness
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ICE and W.C. Williams’s Ice Box Theft
An Atlantic article applies Williams’s famous plum poet to the “Sandwich Guy” arrested by ICE for “hurling a hoagie.” But the poem applies more to the agents.
Irony and the GOP’s Big Beautiful Bill
The GOP’s “big beautiful bill” is perfect in its rottenness–like William Carlos Williams’ rotten apple in “Perfection.”
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Shafts of Golden Light
Easter Sunday For Easter I offer up two April poems that work as a before and after. First, Rainer Maria Rilke speaks of the “slumbering silence” before everything bursts into flower. Then William Carlos William describes that bursting as almost too much to bear. First the breathless anticipation, then the flowering. In the Rilke poem, […]
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Why Read Lit? Let Me Count the Reasons
I grapple today about why it is essential to read lit. And what happens to us when we don’t.
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Caution: Don’t Stereotype Immigrants
William Carlos Williams has a poem that prompts us to see beyond immigrant stereotypes.
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Take Me Out to the Lynch Mob
A baseball poem by William Carlos Williams captures well the two sides of a crowd.
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