the sense of her knowing I have long been
motherless itself a mother to me
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Poetry
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A New Orleans jazz hall and its history in the fight for Black freedom
In post-Civil War New Orleans, Creole leaders won elections and oversaw the desegregation of public schools, a short-lived experiment destroyed after Reconstruction.
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Review: Ecotheological river poetry and the funk-loving Jesus of the Deep South
In the poems of ‘Delta Tears,’ Philip Kolin blends ecotheology and Scripture with pleas for social justice.
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I heard there’s warm weather somewhere
hung up for too long
on a mind’s rack to stretch
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What the newborn sees while he flies
The infant won’t remember reeling images
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When poetry meets spirituality
Eleven different poetry collections reviewed by four America editors offer a sample of the God-haunted and the God-hunted contemporary literary artists who work out their spiritual, intellectual and emotional conundrums through lyrical compositions.
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When America magazine rejected William Faulkner, J.K. Rowling and Taylor Swift from our pages
Going through old files, America’s editors found a few interesting submissions (and rejections).
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Death of Metaphor
If Metaphor had held through Crucifixion, I, too, would have had my eighty years
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Why Joe Biden keeps quoting Seamus Heaney on when ‘hope and history rhyme’
In this season of discontent in American society, however, Heaney’s words have become emblematic of President Biden’s greatest political challenge: to act as healer-in-chief.