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AWOL: Bringing New Stories To the Screen

Jul 11 2012
Published by under Art, Poetry and Musings
missing image   Photograph by Irit Reinheimer
AWOL is a love story. It is a rural love story,
and a lesbian love story, and a story about the choices that young people in
this country have – and don’t have. 

These lines accompany the [continue reading]

What If All The Natural Gas In The United States Was In Urban America?

May 16 2012
Published by under Art, Poetry and Musings
missing image Photograph by Les Stone
An open question for consideration: suppose that the United States’ massive natural gas reserves were located exclusively beneath urban sites. Would these regions encounter hydraulic fracturing? Would the practice exponentially increase across the metropolitan areas of Dallas or Boston as it has in rural [continue reading]

Honey and Sustainability in Rural Nepal

May 11 2012
Published by under Art, Poetry and Musings
missing image
Here is a new dispatch considering rural – international connections, where sustainability and food security meet, raising the
quality of life and illustrating to rural youth how prosperity could be
under their noses, or in the hive:
Plan International reports today on news [continue reading]

We Juke Up In Here: Mississippi Juke Joint Traditions

May 9 2012
Published by under Art, Poetry and Musings, Music
missing image Red Paden at home in Red’s Lounge; Lou Bopp
This month will see the release of a new documentary from Jeff Konkel of Broke and Hungry Records and Roger Stolle of the Cat Head music and art store. We Juke Up In Here [continue reading]

Bartering A Rural-Urban Connection

May 8 2012
Published by under Art, Poetry and Musings
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Yesterday we learned via Arts Journal of a new effort aimed at taking the crowd-funding platform and removing the monetary exchange from the process. OurGoods pairs creative individuals and their projects and allows for mutually-beneficial collaborations.  Though the project is centered in New York City, there’s no reason [continue reading]

Readings: Rural Traditions Sunk Into Eternal Oblivion

May 7 2012
Published by under Art, Poetry and Musings
missing image from The Farmer’s Year: A Calendar of Animal Husbandry; Clare Leighton , 1935
In our Readings
series, we offer selections from visual and printed texts that offer
perspectives, expand dialogues, and challenge assumptions.
Today we feature the response of [continue reading]

The Tree That Bursts Through The Silo

Apr 30 2012
Published by under Art, Poetry and Musings
missing image Tree In Silo ; Ken Wolf
Many thanks to María Arambula for sharing on our Arts and Culture Feed A.G. Sulzberger’s latest rural dispatch for The New York Times , “Amid Rural Decay, Trees Take Root in Silos.” The image of these [continue reading]

One Clover & A Bee: Poems For Families To Learn And Love

Apr 25 2012
Is Poetry On Your Playlist? Many of us think of poetry with a capital P—meaning, Poetry lives in a castle high on a hill surrounded by a deep moat and a drawbridge. Beautiful from a distance, probably beautiful inside, but a little scary and, unless you know the owners, pretty inaccessible. Or we think of [continue reading]

Wendell Berry’s Jefferson Lecture: "It All Turns On Affection"

Apr 24 2012
Published by under Art, Poetry and Musings
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On Monday night Wendell Berry delivered “It All Turns on Affection,” the 2012 Jefferson Lecture at the Kennedy Center. Each year the National Endowment for the Humanities offers this lectureship, “the highest honor the federal government bestows for distinguished intellectual and public achievement in the humanities.”  Mr. Berry’s [continue reading]

Photographing Rural Maine, Beyond The Vacationland

Apr 24 2012
Published by under Art, Poetry and Musings
missing image Gregory Gives his Cousin Lori a Rose, 1983 ; Steven Rubin
This month TIME Magazine’s Lightbox photography section highlights the work of Steven Rubin and his 30 year project in Somerset County, Maine — the fruits of which are currently on view at the drkrm gallery [continue reading]

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