Linda Sue Grimes
The Topic Editor and Feature Writer for Poetry and Alternative Spirituality completed the Ph.D. in British, American, and World Literature at Ball State University in 1987. In her dissertation, titled "W. B. Yeats' Transformations of Eastern Religious Concepts," she argues that Yeats misinterpreted many of the basic Eastern religious and philosophical concepts that he attempted to portray in some of his poems and plays. Grimes has been studying the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda and practicing Kriya Yoga since 1978.
Grimes has published poems in literary journals, including Sonoma Mandala, RATTLE: Poetry for the 21st Century, and The Bellingham Review, and three academic essays in The Explicator.
She participated in a roundtable discussion titled "Spirituality in the Workplace," which appears in the September 2005 issue of Effective Executive, published in India. Her article, “MY SOUL IS MARCHING ON: Using Mystical Poetry to Carry the Mind to Celestial Realms,” appears in the Winter 2005 issue of Self-Realization Fellowship Magazine.
Her book of spiritual poetry, Singing in the Silence, was published in 2005 and a book of fables, Jiggery-Jee's Eden Valley Stories, in 2004. In addition to serving as Topic Editor and Feature Writer for Poetry and Alternative Spirituality, she contributes articles about politics and American history here at Suite101.
Showcasing her original poetry and essays focusing on politics and spirituality, Grimes maintains a personal, literary Web site at Stone Gulch Literary Home.
Latest Articles
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Edgar Lee Masters' Justice Arnett
Justice Arnett is featured in his own poem where he demonstrates weakness and confusion, commensurate with many other fellow citizens of Spoon River.
Feb 10, 2012
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Paramahansa Yogananda's Where Is There Love
Human love is only a reflection of Divine Love, and "in this world [people] do not know how to love [one another]."
Feb 3, 2012
- Linda Sue Grimes
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Poole's The Bible
A religious agnostic muses on the handling of the Bible that had belonged to his wife's grandmother.
Jan 27, 2012
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Margaret Atwood's Backdrop addresses cowboy
Atwood's piece features a surrealistic drama that reduces the cowboy to a straw man, as the speaker vents her rage against a fantasy.
Jan 20, 2012
- Linda Sue Grimes
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Edgar Lee Masters' Lois Spears
Lois Spears will delight readers who have grown somewhat jaded with the jaded characters offered them in Masters' Spoon River Anthology.
Jan 6, 2012
- Linda Sue Grimes
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Edgar Lee Masters' Ace Shaw
"Ace" Shaw features a typical Spoon River braggart whose report justifies his unseemly choice of profession.
Dec 16, 2011
- Linda Sue Grimes
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Langston Hughes' Mother to Son
Comparing her life to a stairway in an extended metaphor, a mother encourages her son to face life, even though it can be full of difficult challenges.
Dec 9, 2011
- Linda Sue Grimes
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Edwin Arlington Robinson's Karma
An omniscient narrator dramatizes the musings of a man whose thoughts and actions vaguely imply the concept of karma-reaping and sowing.
Dec 2, 2011
- Linda Sue Grimes
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Paul Krugman's Legend That Failed
In the New York Times article, "Legends of the Fail," liberal economist Paul Krugman attempts to clarify the reasons for the "eurodebacle."
Nov 28, 2011
- Linda Sue Grimes
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Edgar Lee Masters' Dr. Siegfried Iseman
Dr. Siegfried Iseman is the typical Spoon River speaker who blames others for his own destructive path.
Nov 25, 2011
- Linda Sue Grimes
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