CD 04 - Daniel Rattelle On Poetry, Place, and Berry & Merton

Poet Dan Rattelle joins the podcast to discuss his new collection Commonwealth from Little Gidding Press. We discuss the idea of place and how Scotland and New England have influenced his poetry. Plus, Dan and I explore a meeting between Wendell Berry and Thomas Merton, and the article he wrote about it for The Front Porch Republic. Dan Rattelle on Twitter Little Gidding Press on Twitter 'Work and Prayer: The Brief Friendship of Thomas Merton and Wendell Berry', by Dan Rattelle   Alan Cornett on Conversation of Our Generation Podcast Cultural Debris on Twitter