The reading — which one audience member said was the best attended poetry reading ever held in Middlebury (a crowd of 40!) – featured farmer-poets, or poet-farmers. James, 77, belongs to the ...

The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer. By Wendell Berry. I am done with apologies. If contrariness is my inheritance and destiny, so be it. If it is my mission to go in at exits and come out at ...

Poet-for-hire Zach Houston works at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market in San Francisco. Houston says he is paid about $2 to $20 for each poem. Ralph Wiedemeier/NPR hide caption ...

The poem-writing process can take anywhere from 5-10 minutes. Customers leave with a poem on a three-by-five-inch paper and get to pay whatever they want. Farmers markets in Kalamazoo, Portage ...

A Lancashire farmer’s daughter has issued a heartfelt plea – through the form of poetry – to the public to support British farming. Feeling the personal ...

Solidarity to farmers,’ others said ‘Salute to farmers,’ ‘Stand with farmers’ and more. The poem is just a few seconds longer than a minute, and ends on the note that the idea of ...

Dancers perform at the 2024 Chinese Farmers Poetry Festival. Photo: VCG. Poet Han Shimei Photo: IC . Is this spring? No, not spring. It's the ripples of time's endless ring, ...