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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A farmer mourning his dead father has been forced to crowdfund to feed his cattle and sheep in the midst of Australia's severe drought. Ben Campbell is now looking after his family's 2,000 acre ...

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 ...