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Unlike Kenyon, Hall, and Faulkner, Wendell Berry is still alive. Collected in A Timbered Choir are Berry’s “Sabbath Poems,” a solid body of poems that resulted from meditative walks in the woods he enjoyed nearly every Sunday for two decades, time that allowed him to “observe the world through his poetry.” We will dig into […]

Nobel-Prize winning writer William Faulkner often wrote about hunters and farmers, shopkeepers and aldermen, and many others who dealt with the struggles they faced in shadow of an encroaching modern world. Morality and faith were rivers that bent their way through some of his most well-known narratives, and we will look at the different roles these characters […]

Three years after marrying, poets Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon moved to Eagle Pond Farm in Wilmot, New Hampshire, a farm that had been in Hall’s family since 1865. Although neither had been regular church goers until their move, they began to attend regularly, and, according to Hall, this helped them become a part of “something that […]