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
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]
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
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]
Idiom and Assimilation: Miles Davis & C.D. Wright
Apr
7
2012
John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis, and Bill Evans, recording in 1958
If there is any particular affinity I have for poetry associated with the South, it is with idiom. I credit hill people and African Americans for keeping the language distinct. Poetry should repulse assimilation. Each poet’s task [continue reading]
If there is any particular affinity I have for poetry associated with the South, it is with idiom. I credit hill people and African Americans for keeping the language distinct. Poetry should repulse assimilation. Each poet’s task [continue reading]
Rural Poetry Series: C.D. Wright
Feb
8
2012
I’m country but sophisticated. I’m particular and concrete, but I’m
probing another plane. . . . There are many times when I want to hammer
the head. Other times I want to sleep on the hammer.
– C. D. Wright C.D. Wright was born [continue reading]
probing another plane. . . . There are many times when I want to hammer
the head. Other times I want to sleep on the hammer.
– C. D. Wright C.D. Wright was born [continue reading]
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