Daniel Thomas Moran
Daniel Thomas Moran is the Humanist’s arts editor. He is also a humanist celebrant, the author of ten collections of poems (the most recent, A Shed for Wood, was published in Ireland in 2014), and a retired clinical assistant professor from Boston University’s School of Dental Medicine. He was poet laureate of Suffolk County, New York, where Whitman was born and also vice president of the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, which cared for the house where Whitman was born on in West Hills, Long Island.
Posts by Daniel Thomas Moran
HUMANISM & THE ARTS | The Terribly Prescient Genius of Sam Shepard’s True West
“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life,” Oscar Wilde professed. What I’m sure of is that artists often see something in life... Read More
Celebrating 200 Years of Walt Whitman
“And I say to any man or woman, Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. And I say to mankind,... Read More
Godless Citizens in a Godly Republic: Atheists in American Public Life
BY R. LAURENCE MOORE AND ISAAC KRAMNICK W. W. NORTON & COMPANY, 2018 256 PP.; $26.95 The narrative of history has not been a... Read More
Beethoven and His Ninth Symphony
Ludwig van Beethoven began his life at an enormous disadvantage, being born some fourteen years after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In that year of 1770,... Read More
Concerning Bullies
No one wants to admit that they were bullied. It’s bad enough to be privately humiliated by the aggressions of someone else. To then... Read More
Seven Days in Cuba
THE ISLAND OF CUBA and its circumstances, both presently and historically, are not easy subjects. The effect Cuba has had on the United States... Read More
Poetry & Paint
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” —Leonardo da Vinci One... Read More