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Bill Ayres

Bill Ayres has spent most of his life running or helping to run bookstores. He has suggestions about what you should read. His poems have appeared recently in Commonweal, Hoot, The Trinity Review, and The Roanoke Review.

Bill Ayres in Kosmos

What You Cross the Street to Avoid


You assume that a blind man can sing and that he can afford a guitar.


Published in Volume 19 Issue 3

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The Village Way

Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World

For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?

Join us for a 9-month inquiry into this question, exploring how we participate together in a time that calls us back to community, resilience, and shared life,

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