June 10, 2016
First Person Plural: Part III (Muhammad Ali)
Throughout my last two posts, I’ve been thinking about strength (and complication) in numbers—the first person plural: “We.” In between those posts and this one, the news broke that boxer […]
December 26, 2014
Poetry, Power, and Panache
“Me, we,” wrote Muhammad Ali, in what may be the shortest poem ever composed (or at least the shortest poem ever delivered as part of a Harvard commencement address). It’s […]