Wendell Berry Page

Wendell Berry (1934- )


Interviews:

• A Conversation with with Jack Shoemaker (together with Gary Snyder)(Lannan Foundation, November 1999): Real Player;
• Bob Edwards talks with author Wendell Berry about his novel, A World Lost (National Public Radio, November 2001): Real Player;
• Field Observations: An Interview with Wendell Berry by Jordan Fisher-Smith(EnviroArts, reprint of Orion 1993);
• How can a family 'live at the center of its own attention?' by Holly M. Brockman (New Southerner, Jan./Feb. 2006);
• An Interview by Bruce Williamson (Mother Earth News, Mar./Apr. 1973);
• Sojourners Magazine interview (July 2004) by Rose Marie Berger: Audio selection Real Player / Windows Media /complete transcript;
• Taking Care of What We've Been Given by Thomas P. Healy (Counter Punch, April 2006);

Readings:

• Lensic Performing Arts Center (Lannan Foundation, November 1999): Real Player;

Poems:

• For The Future (Spirit of Trees);
• In this World, The Lilies, The Man Born to Farming, Water, 1991-I, and 1991-II (Cal Polytech);
• Look Out (Find Articles, from The Progressive 2005);
• The Mad Farmer Liberation Front (Good Nature);
• A Meeting (National Public Radio);
• The Peace of Wild Things (Biscayne Bay Review);
• Sabbath poem II, 1995 (Find Articles, from Chrhistian Century 2002);
• Sabbaths, 2000 (Find Articles, from Hudson Review 2002);
• Some Further Words (Find Articles, from American Poetry Review 2002);
• They Sit Together on the Porch (Biscayne Bay Review);
• The Timbered Choir (National Public Radio): Real Audio;
• Window Poems #19 (Wisdom Portal);

Prose:

• "A Crucifix for Dracula: Wendell Berry Meets Edward O. Wilson" by Harold Fromm (Hudson Review, Winter 2001);
• "Farm as Form: Wendell Berry's Sabbaths" by Jeffery Alan Triggs (American Authors Series: Wendell Berry, Confluence Press, Inc., 1991);
• "The Idea of a Local Economy" (Orion Magazine 2001);
• A Kinship of the Fields: Farming in the Poetry of R.S. Thomas and Wendell Berry by Jeffery Alan Triggs (North Dakota Quarterly, Spring 1989);

Photos/Portraits:

• Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait;
• Association for the Study of Literature and Environment;
• Better World Heroes;
• Letcher County, Kentucky archives;
• University of Montana;

Reviews:

• The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry. Reviewed by Eric Zencey (Nationa, July 2002);
• The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry. Reviewed by Maia Cheli-Col (The Spirited Review);

Articles:

• Go Ahead, Mr. Wendell (Grist August 2004);
• A human and literary 'miracle' remembered with info on Berry's relationship with Guy Davenport (For more on Guy Davenport's memorial service see Guy Davenport's Memorial Service Was Held This Morning);

Other VGS Author Pages:

• Claudia Emerson (Winner of 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry);
• Thomas Gray;
• John Keats;
• Ted Kooser;
• Giacomo Leopardi;
• Federico Garcia Lorca;
• Lisel Mueller (Winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry);
• Pablo Neruda; and,
• Percy Bysshe Shelley.