The Poetry Library
Everything we know about reading, understanding, and making poetry — gathered in one place, and growing every week.
Wendell Berry and the Discipline of Staying Put
Wendell Berry died on August 31 at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky, at 92, on the farm his family had worked for seven generations. What a poet who spent seventy years in one place still has to teach a small press about scale, patience, and refusal.
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