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 Maya Shedd's Temple: Literary Home of Linda Sue Grimes.
Latest Articles
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Edgar Lee Masters' Aner Clute
Masters' speaker in "Aner Clute" compares her choosing "the life" to a boy stealing an apple from a grocery.
May 14, 2012
- Linda Sue Grimes
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Oodgeroo Noonuccal's We Are Going
This propagandist piece offers little more that a textbook case study in victimology.
May 4, 2012
- Linda Sue Grimes
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Phillis Levin's End of April
"End of April" merges the finding of an empty robin's egg with the melancholy felt after a experiencing a lost love.
Apr 27, 2012
- Linda Sue Grimes
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Paramahansa Yogananda's My India
"My India" is Paramahansa Yogananda's moving tribute to his native country.
Apr 21, 2012
- Linda Sue Grimes
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T. S. Eliot's The Hollow Men
The speaker in T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men" laments the insipid, vacuous nature of his culture.
Apr 13, 2012
- Linda Sue Grimes
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Obama Job Performance and the Pathetic Woman
"Pathetic Woman" is a brilliant piece of political satire that exposes the excesses and obfuscation of the Obama administration.
Apr 5, 2012
- Linda Sue Grimes
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Martha Washington – The First First Lady
As the first First Lady, Martha Washington set the standard for those Ladies who would follow.
Mar 30, 2012
- Linda Sue Grimes
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When Soldiers Die - Two Views
Wallace Stevens' "The Death of a Soldier" and Walt Whitman's "Look Down, Fair Moon" express two very different attitudes toward their subject.
Mar 23, 2012
- Linda Sue Grimes
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Ulysses S. Grant Second U.S. Republican President
Ulysses S. Grant served as the eighteenth president of the United States; he was the second president to serve as a Republican.
Mar 18, 2012
- Linda Sue Grimes
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Sixtieth Anniversary of Paramahansa Yogananda's Mahasamadhi
On March 7, 1952, Paramahansa Yogananda, founder of Self-Realization Fellowship, entered mahasamadhi, an advanced yogi's exodus from the body.
Mar 2, 2012
- Linda Sue Grimes
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