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Emmett Wheatfall

Emmett Wheatfall is a poet and playwright. His poetry collection As Clean as a Bone (2018) was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book of the Year and Da Vinci Eye awards. The collection’s title references an admonition by James Baldwin, the late great black intellectual, who said, “You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.” For more information about Emmett, visit http://emmettwheatfall.com.

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Our Scarlet Blue Wounds


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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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