In early 2020, Burlington composer Don Jamison was looking forward to hearing the Burlington Choral Society perform There Is a Day, his first commissioned piece for the group. The chorus had been ...

Wendell Berry’s poems, new and collected. So we have nothing yet like the complete poems—for Berry, who will turn 80 next year, is still very much with us and hard at work. What we do have is an ...

Over a decade ago, while filmmaker Laura Dunn was making her first feature documentary, “The Unforeseen,” farmer and poet Wendell Berry graciously invited her into his Henry County, Kentucky home so ...

Over his long life, Wendell Berry, now 88, has composed a steady stream of remarkable essays, novels and poems celebrating traditional American agrarian practices and communities and lamenting the ...

I fell in with Wendell Berry early. At 16, I started visiting an independent bookstore on the Fox River in Chicago’s west suburbs near my high school. I spent many afternoons there, and probably too ...

Wendell Berry’s imagined residents of Port William, Kentucky, are nearly as familiar to his most devoted readers as their own extended family members. In a series of novels and dozens of short stories ...

An admiring but unexciting look at the life and work of the celebrated writer and farmer. Equal parts hagiographic biography and heartland celebration, “The Seer: A Portrait of Wendell Berry” should ...