Friday I’ve written so many times about the accidental drowning death of my son Justin—most thoroughly in Better Living through Literature —that I won’t repeat what I’ve said. Instead, I use today’s “...
03.21.2026 Betterlivingthroughbeowulf.com
Sunday I share today Lucille Clifton’s response to the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. For those who find the miracle hard to believe, Clifton tells her own resurrection story. “whoever ...
03.21.2026 Betterlivingthroughbeowulf.com
Thursday As tomorrow is the official first day of spring, here’s a blog post by my son on William Wordsworth’s “Lines Written in Early Spring. ” Tobias Wilson-Bates is an English professor at George G...
03.18.2026 Betterlivingthroughbeowulf.com
spring song, Lucille Clifton The green of Jesus is breaking the ground and the sweet smell of delicious Jesus is opening the house and the dance of Jesus music has hold of the air and the world is tur...
03.19.2026 Bryancountynews.com
Why the Poet Ed Sanders Matters More Than Ever Lucy Kogler in Praise of the Poet Who Never Stops Creating “If you are not a liberal when you are young, you have no heart, and if you are not a conservative when old, you have no brain. ” –variously attributed to Benjamin Disraeli, Winston Churchill, Anselme Batbie, King Oscar II of Sweden… * It might as well be 1983 given how vividly I can hear Ed Sanders singing about the “O” Boat at SUNY Buffalo during his (Charles) Olson Memorial Lecture. Sande...
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