The Magical Humanist

Poem of the Week: Emma Lazarus, “The New Colossus”

“Immigrants—we get the job done”

Dec 8 • 

Christopher Lockett

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November 2025

Poem of the Week: Randall Jarrell, “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”

In the belly of the beast

Nov 30 • 

Christopher Lockett

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What Makes a War Poem? Part Three: WWII’s Blinding Mirror

The crisis of representation

Nov 26 • 

Christopher Lockett

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What Makes a War Poem? Part Two: The Great War and the Shock of the New Century

Also, some stuff with W.B. Yeats

Nov 21 • 

Christopher Lockett

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What Makes a War Poem? Part One: “The Charge of the Light Brigade”

Into the valley of Death

Nov 11 • 

Christopher Lockett

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Poem of the Week: Sylvia Plath, “Mirror”

Like a terrible, terrible, terrible fish

Nov 9 • 

Christopher Lockett

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October 2025

Poem of the Week: T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men”

A journey back into my undergraduate mind

Oct 25 • 

Christopher Lockett

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We’ve Seen This Movie Before

On feeling helpless in the present moment

Oct 13 • 

Christopher Lockett

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Poem of the Week: H.D., “Eurydice”

You had one job!

Oct 6 • 

Christopher Lockett

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Poem of the Week: e.e. cummings, “my father moved through dooms of love”

The profound sense of nonsense

Oct 1 • 

Christopher Lockett

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September 2025

Discworld Reread # 9: Moving Pictures

The magic of cthinema

Sep 29 • 

Christopher Lockett

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Poem of the Week: Elizabeth Bishop, “One Art”

The elegiac villanelle

Sep 21 • 

Christopher Lockett

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