Posts Tagged: Newtown Connecticut
“It’s A War Zone Around There”
After a year marked by several horrific mass shootings (on the heels of other years marked by somewhat fewer horrific mass shootings), gun violence has been on all our minds. This American Life addressed the issue with a two-part episode about the daily lives of students and staff at a Chicago high school where twenty-nine students […]
...moreDavid Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Poetry and the Newtown Massacre
Last week I had intended to take a quick Christmastime breather from writing Poetry Wire until the beginning of next year. Then on Friday came the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. (Then, too, on Sunday, the sudden death of an admired poet.) So poetry never sleeps. But can poetry do anything right now in the face […]
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