Darlene Pagán is the author of Blue Ghosts (2011) and Setting the Fires (2015). She has published essays and poems in journals such as Literal Latté, Field Magazine, CALYX, and Hiram Poetry Review. She teaches writing and literature at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, and is currently working on a memoir titled The Safest Place to Fall, a middle-grade fantasy, and always, poetry. For more, visit darlenepagan.com.
Darlene Pagán

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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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