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6 unusual facts about Wendell Berry


Erik Reece

It includes the work of modern American poets (among them, Robert Frost, Wendell Berry, Hayden Carruth, Charles Wright) plus that of four classical Chinese poets, who wandered and wrote about an area of southeastern China that is similar in landscape and ecology to the eastern woodlands of the United States.

Reece's 2006 book Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness (New York: Riverhead Books, 2006), with photos by John J. Cox and a foreword by Wendell Berry, chronicles the devastating effects of mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia from October 2003 through November 2004.

Gordonville, Pennsylvania

Wendell Berry mentioned the town in one of his collections of essays.

Malcolm Dalglish

Several of his songs with the Ooolite choral group come from the poetic work of Wendell Berry.

Spiritual ecology

Other contemporary inter-disciplinary environmentalists include Wendell Berry, a farmer, poet, and academic living in Kentucky, who fights for small farms and criticizes agri-business; and Satish Kumar, a former Jain monk and founder of Schumacher College, a center for ecological studies.

The Green Bible

It is a study Bible featuring essays by N.T. Wright, Barbara Brown Taylor, Brian McLaren, Matthew Sleeth, Pope John Paul II, and Wendell Berry.


Barkley Thompson

In addition to his pastorally oriented works, Thompson has published academic essays focusing on figures as diverse as the 19th century philosopher Josiah Royce and the contemporary agrarian writer Wendell Berry.

Dim Gray Bar Press

Subsequent works, handprinted in editions of usually 100 copies or less, included work by Martine Bellen, Wendell Berry, Eavan Boland, Guy Davenport, Sharon Dolin, Mark Doty, Jonathan Greene, Rachel Hadas, Andrew Hudgins, Jim Harrison, James Laughlin, William Matthews, Gerald Stern, Robert Stone, Charles Tomlinson, Jonathan Williams and William Carlos Williams.

Edward Abbey

A second, much larger wake was held in May, just outside his beloved Arches National Park, with such notables as Terry Tempest Williams and Wendell Berry speaking.

Jane Vandenburgh

She is married to Jack Shoemaker, a Berkeley, California, book publisher (North Point Press, Counterpoint) who publishes Gary Snyder and Wendell Berry.

Ralph Eugene Meatyard

The photographer co-authored a book on Kentucky's Red River Gorge, The Unforeseen Wilderness, with writer Wendell Berry.

The New Patriotism Series

The New Patriotism Series is a project embarked upon by the Orion Society on the Thoughts on America Initiative to present the events of September 11 attacks and the emerging "new world order" through the eyes of several writers including Wendell Berry, Barry Lopez, Terry Tempest Williams, Richard Nelson, and David James Duncan.


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