Wendell Berry is quickly embraced or dismissed by many depending on how he might happen to fit into their evaluation of modern living. Do we love cities?  Berry is an unrealistic romantic. Do we hate cities?  Berry is our guide.

Is there more to ponder here?  Might those of us who love cities benefit from a conversation on the normative power of nature and its intrinsic value? Might those of us who hate cities benefit from notions of membership, community, and place rooted right here, right now: Washington, D.C. in 2026?

Join Heights faculty, Pat Miggins and Joe Lanzilotti, for an evening devoted to nature, membership, and place in the writings of Wendell Berry.  Rather than a call for a “somewhere else”—in and of itself a symptom of the modern—Pat and Joe will help us deepen our understanding of what Berry might call us to here and now.

Washington D.C?  Rooted? Berry asks.  We’ll seek answers in friendship.

Join us on Saturday, May 9:

7:00pm – Refreshments (by the main doors entrance)
7:30pm – Poetry and Short Story Reading and Discussion