Eavan Boland, “A Habitable Grief”
This is what language is: a habitable grief. Reading those words back to myself, I struggle to understand how they apply to the current situation. I watched a g...
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“The Dark Knight” (2008)
It sounds strange to say a superhero movie constitutes a serious comment about the War on Terror. But that’s what The Dark Knight is, and it is understand...
Emily Dickinson, “As willing lid o’er weary eye” (1050)
Lately, I have not been looking at nature too closely. It feels a blur of bugs and heat, an encompassing disorder I must move through. At this moment, though, I...
Graham Foust, “The Only Poem”
One of the tasks of political philosophy, I imagine, is accounting for how it is possible for an entire people to be in denial. Emphasis must be placed on ̶...
Jane Kenyon, “Not Writing”
For a number of us, quarantine entails meeting our insecurities and rediscovering our weaknesses. This isn’t to say that getting attention constantly is a...