Emma Lazarus: The New Colossus
I promise that we are not becoming a poetry blog. It's just that the birthday of Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) comes immediately after that of Hart Crane. And her contribution seems especially worth contemplating at a time of 1) patriotism re-examined; 2) heightened Anti-Semitism; and 3) backlash against immigration. The deplorable contemporary tendency to reduce historical […]