Tag: Poetry
Millennial bashing in medieval times
Eric Weiskott, Boston College
As a millennial and a teacher of millennials, I’m growing weary of think pieces blaming my generation for messing everything up....
How World War I sparked the artistic movement that transformed black...
Aaron Douglas. "Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery to Reconstruction." Oil on canvas, 1934. The New...
Making poetry their own: The evolution of poetry education
The American poet William Stafford was often asked by friends, readers, students and colleagues: When did you become a poet? The response...
In today’s anti-immigrant rhetoric, echoes of Virgil’s ‘Aeneid’
Boatloads of refugees put ashore in Italy after a wearying journey at sea; the city they adored, Troy, now a smoking ruin...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
