Part 2 of a conversation with Eleanor Berry, who reads from and discusses poems in her latest collection, Works of Wildfire, written in the wake of the devastating Beachie Creek Fire that swept through the Santiam Canyon in late summer 2020, destroying virtually everything in its path. Eleanor and her husband Richard lost their home and property, as did many others in western Oregon that summer. These prize-winning poems are beautiful, powerfully understated meditations on loss and renewal, both personal and ecological.
Poetry can enrich our lives. We explore this topic through interviews, discussions, spoken poems live, recordings of local poetry events as well as audio of major and minor poets from the early 20th century to the present.
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