Jim Kates

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

June 11, 2026
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This week’s poem: J. Kates’s “The Fourth Cottage”

Book Review: “Waging a Good War” — A Civil Rights Strategy for the Future

April 1, 2023
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In this valuable history, Thomas E. Ricks looks at the critical events of “The Second Reconstruction” as a series of campaigns in a nonviolent war.

Poetry Review: “One Hundred Visions of War” — Haiku in No Man’s Land

December 1, 2022
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This is a grim and uncomfortable book to read because it forces us to contemplate each small poem separately and then take them all together, a hard but necessary exercise.

Poetry Review: “Unrevolutionary Times” — Try Men’s Souls?

November 10, 2022
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In his poetry, Houman Harouni has peopled a world with voices that are well worth listening to.

Poetry Review: “Island Heart” — The Dance of Passion

August 9, 2022
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These poems are of their own time and place — written in Haiti and France early in the twentieth century — yet they remain impressively fresh.

Poetry Review: The Word-Whipped Verse of “Flame in a Stable”

January 15, 2022
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Flame in a Stable admits the reader into the committed life of a literate, far-reaching, colloquial, passionate, playful, and witty poetic voice,

Book Review: “Walk With Me” — The Heroism of Fannie Lou Hamer

October 30, 2021
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A three-dimensional portrait of one of the most powerful and eloquent leaders of the civil rights movement in Mississippi.

Poetry Review: Ruth Lepson’s “on the way” — Basking in the Glow

October 28, 2021
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Ruth Lepson’s poetry, at its most successful, creates the evocative and stimulating effect of a koan.

Book Review: “What Strange Paradise” — Unforgettable

October 23, 2021
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Run, do not walk, to pick up your copy of this novel about little person caught up in a very big world.

Poetry Review: “Black Earth” — The Irresistible Appeal of Poet Osip Mandelstam

August 13, 2021
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Russian poet Osip Mandelstam’s “ancient language” is rendered into real contemporary poetry in English that succeeds in speaking eloquently to the inner eye and ear.

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