National Poetry Month (April)
Speaking Truth to Power: The Thunderous Messages of the Hebrew Prophets and What They Mean Today
Posted: October 31, 2019 at 6:14 pm, Last Updated: September 13, 2021 at 5:58 pm
In all of literature there are few parallels to the soaring rhetoric and poetry of the Hebrew prophets. They speak to us clearly today after almost three millennia: Amos in 800 BC crying seeking help for the poor and the disenfranchised (“let justice flow like a river”); Hosea comparing his country to a prostitute; Isaiah […]
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Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece: Philosophy, Poetry, Drama (Not available Spring/Summer 2023)
Posted: September 29, 2014 at 2:59 pm, Last Updated: April 18, 2023 at 3:33 pm
What if the leaders in politics, business, science, and the military had spent their youth as “eye candy,” escorts, and “sugar babies” (young people admired and sexualized for their looks, and often rewarded for sexual favors or dates)? What if the second most powerful person in the country, the top advisor and speechwriter to the […]
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Hiawatha in History, Legend and Poetry
Posted: September 26, 2014 at 7:07 pm, Last Updated: September 13, 2021 at 5:58 pm
Most of us know about Hiawatha from Longfellow’s long poem. But there was a historic Hiawatha as well as Iroquois legends embellishing this person’s career. How did Longfellow come to pick Hiawatha for his poem?
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