The Poetry of Wendell Berry

Facilitated by Mary Beth Gray, SND

“Do unto those downstream as you would have
those upstream do unto you.”
― Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry is well known as an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer.

“Over the years, he has called himself an agrarian, a pacifist, and a Christian—albeit of an eccentric kind. He has written against all forms of violence and destruction—of land, communities, and human beings—and argued that the modern American way of life is a skein of violence. He is an anti-capitalist moralist and a writer of praise for what he admires: the quiet, mostly uncelebrated labor and affection that keep the world whole and might still redeem it.”
From Wikipedia

We will focus on his poetry to open our minds and our hearts in order to connect us more deeply to ourselves, to God, and to the natural world.

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Mary Beth Gray is a Sister of Notre Dame in Cleveland, OH, with a  Master of Arts in Theopoetics and Writing.
She loves poetry and has spent considerable time exploring the poems of Wendell Berry.