Lannan Readings & Conversations

Wendell Berry

with Jack Shoemaker
Wednesday November 10 1999

Wendell Berry Reading, November 10, 1999
Gary Snyder Reading, November 10, 1999
Berry/Snyder in Conversation with Jack Shoemaker, November 10, 1999

This was a special event in which Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder read from their respective works. They then joined Jack Shoemaker in conversation.

Jack Shoemaker Wendell Berry is a poet, essayist, and novelist, who has been called the "prophet of rural America." Mr. Berry, who pursues what he calls "an ethic and way of life based upon devotion to a place and devotion to a land," lives and works on his farm in Port Royal, Kentucky. He has published more than 30 books, including The Wheel, Sabbaths, and Openings (poetry); The Wild Birds, Watch with Me, and Remembering (fiction); and Another Turn of the Crank, What Are People For?, and The Unsettling of America (nonfiction). He received a Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction in 1989.

Wendell Berry Bio and Cross Links


Jack Shoemaker Jack Shoemaker is the editor-in-chief of Counterpoint Press in Washington, D.C.

Jack Shoemaker Bio and Cross Links