Iris Rain (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Here are some poems that I think are lovely and capture the days we've been having. Enjoy! Grace -Wendell Berry for Gurney Norman, quoting him The woods is shining this morning. Red, gold and green, the leaves lie on the ground, or fall, or hang full of light in the air still. Perfect in its rise and in its fall, it takes the place it has been coming to forever. It has not hastened here, or lagged....
John Crowley Little and Big (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
The picture below was sent to me by Rodger Cunningham. His message says " The Sierra Club’s Cumberland, Ky., Chapte r posted this photo (taken by Lauren McGrath) on its Facebook page . http://blogs.wvgazette.com/ coaltattoo/2009/09/04/friday- roundup-sept-4-2009/ " Rodger, who lives and teaches in Northeast Kentucky and follows the monstrous behavior of the coal companies and their...
Dialogic (Free subscription) | 04/16/2009
On Friday, April 24th, beginning at 11 a.m. in the Capitol Rotunda in Frankfort, the Kentucky Arts Council is hosting an induction ceremony for Kentucky’s new Poet Laureate, Gurney Norman. Other Kentucky poets and writers, including Richard Taylor and Jane Gentry Vance, will also read and a reception on the mezzanine will follow the induction. Let your students know about this event—even...
A Year of Reading (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
Grace by Wendell Berry for Gurney Norman, quoting him The woods is shining this morning. Red, gold and green, the leaves lie on the ground, or fall, or hang full of light in the air still. Perfect in its rise and in its fall, it takes the place it has been coming to forever. (the rest is here ) I am thankful for this five days off to "be still" and relocate the grace in my life. Wishing the...
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