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Clifton’s Poem about a Lynching Victim

By Robin Bates | Published: August 22, 2023

Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of a Jasper, Texas lynching. Lucille Clifton has a poem about victim James Byrd.

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Brown & Gold & Blood vs. Trumpian White

By Robin Bates | Published: March 2, 2017

In the face of white nationalists, we need poems like Fatima Asghar’s celebration of South Asian diversity in America to remind us who we really are.

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A Queenly Response to Violence

By Robin Bates | Published: June 17, 2009

My wife (who is currently out of town) has just responded to my last post with a story that expands my conversation about the Beowulf approach to societal rage. In the story related in Julia’s post, a woman takes a principled and courageous stand in an ugly situation and finds herself, against all expectation, making […]

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