I have grown to be of the mind that human beings are in greater danger of extinction than nature. And I haven’t figured out yet whether or not this would necessarily be a bad thing. As David Whyte has pointed out, “human beings are the only ones in creation who are in exile.” We are […]
What makes this living poet different is that he is a “working poet.” Yes, David Whyte has a job, and outside of academia. He works. He consults. He has a business. He lives smack dab in the center of the world . . . Yet something tells us that David Whyte “lives” somewhere else, really, […]