They made a good choice

Wendell Berry was chosen by the NEH to present the 2012 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities.

http://www.neh.gov/news/archive/20120206.html

It would be a treat to attend.


from An Embarrassment


 If a lonely soul
did ever cry out

in company its true
outcry to God,

it would be as though
at a sedate party

a man suddenly
removed his clothes

and took his wife
passionately into his arms.