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.

Poem Poem: The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer Wendell Berry makes a case for going at it your own way: “I am done with apologies. If contrariness is my/inheritance and destiny, so be it.” ...

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.

Now, U.S. wheat growing is on a steady decline, with farmers finding surer profits from corn, soybeans or cattle. On the wheat quality tour in May, weeks before Nebraska wheat is usually harvested, no ...

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. Jonathan Farmer: Why did you decide to start writing about poems? A.O. Scott: I’ve always been interested in poetry.

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Michelle Schaub, who lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, “tucked up against the Rocky Mountain foothills.” She began writing for children after a creative ...

Bob Holman calls Serhiy Zhadan’s poetry a “Canterbury Tales” of Ukrainian common people. He lists all the people, the soldiers, farmers, drug dealers and poor whose stories Zhadan tells. The ...

Egg farmers are facing a catastrophic global animal disease outbreak that has wiped out over 130 million egg-laying hens, resulting in egg prices hitting historic highs, and the secretary of Agricu… ...

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, The earth's awakening - a ...

As he harvested the best crop of his life, Bill Gordon decided it was time to switch from farming to poetry.

“Mary Had a Little Lamb” is perhaps one of the most famous nursery rhymes in history. What’s less well known is the story behind the poem. There was indeed an actual Mary and she did actually have a ...

Most farmers market vendors sell food for the body, but Andrea Becker offers food for the soul. Give her a word and she’ll write you a customized original poem, typed on a vintage typewriter and ...