Sometimes the algorithm works: Nick Offerman’s joy at discovering Wendell Berry describes my own sense of connection to this amazing American poet, writer, and farmer.
Category Archives: poetry
Finding Hope
More Wendell Berry for some peace and sanity but also brutal honesty about the nature of hope and human beings.
The Poetry Foundation has an in depth biography and decent selection of Berry’s writing. Their collection, Poems of Hope and Resilience, is brimming with words from poets across the world and across the ages.
Finding Peace
Do Not Go Gentle
I have not had the energy for public writing these days: I write my morning pages and have been doing 500 words a day as part of the April version of NaNoWriMo. The latter is meant to be memoir but mostly I find myself ranting about the state of the world and wondering how much cash I should be hiding under the mattress. Then, in the midst of looking for dopamine hits amongst my Insta feed, there is this: Michael Sheen, all wild hair and Welsh intonation, performing “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas. Happy National Poetry Month! Stop, take a breath or two and just let the words flow over you.
Poetry For Your Soul
Mary Oliver is one of my favorite poets, and “Wild Geese” one of my favorite poems. This showed up on my feed right after I posted about imperfection, one of the themes Oliver explores in her poem. Helena Bonham Carter does a beautiful rendition. Enjoy.