Kris Willcox

Articles

E.E. Cummings’s ‘firstness’
Cummings proclaimed the primacy of individual experience.
By Kris Willcox 4.6.15

James Lord Pierpont and the mystery of 'Jingle Bells'
The debate over where the Unitarian wrote the holiday favorite rages on.
By Kris Willcox 12.15.14

Unitarian Charles Follen and the Christmas tree
How a man whose passions were religious freedom and the abolition of slavery came to be known as the father of American Christmas trees.
By Kris Willcox 12.23.13