Monthly Archives: January 2014

Lane and Berry Redux – Two More Poems

January 17, 2014 – 7:15 pm

Here are two more poems by Patrick Lane and Wendell Berry. Nothing scientific about the choices of poems. Just that these are poems I keep coming back to. Can’t let […]

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Wendell Berry and Patrick Lane — How Darkness Comes Into The World — Part Two

January 17, 2014 – 3:45 pm

In Part One of this post I discussed the striking similarities between two, in some aspects, very different poems by Wendell Berry ( A Poem On Hope) and Patrick Lane […]

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Wendell Berry and Patrick Lane – How Darkness Comes Into the World – Part One

January 11, 2014 – 5:15 pm

In an introduction to a poetry reading a few years ago Wendell Berry was described as a human treasure. This teacher, farmer and prolific writer of  more than forty books […]

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2014 Skagit River Poetry Festival – A Must-Attend Event!

January 4, 2014 – 7:54 pm

IOWA, JANUARY In the long winter nights, a farmer’s dreams are narrow. Over and over, he enters the furrow. Robert Hass (1941 – ) from Time and Materials, Ecco Press, […]

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