Louise Cary Barden recently re-settled in Oregon from North Carolina. Before immersing herself in poetry full time, she was a university English instructor and marketing-advertising executive. Her poems have appeared in journals nationwide and have won awards from Calyx (https://www.calyxpress.org/), the Oregon Poetry Association, the North Carolina Harperprints chapbook competition (for Tea Leaves), and others. Married to an ecologist, she is a self-avowed tree-hugger.
Louise Cary Barden
Louise Cary Barden in Kosmos
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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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