University Libraries Promotion and Tenure Recognition

Of Kentucky poet Wendell Berry, I’ve appreciated these beautiful poems describing people in relation to one another and to their environment. They speak to our responsibility to care for people and places. As the title predicted, they’ve frequently been set to music as choral settings. Embodying my own values of pluralism, equality, and community, he writes, “Whether we know it or not, whether we want to be or not, we are members of one another.”