Tea & Poetry Social featuring the works of Wendell Berry
Thu, Nov 05
|Quietude Retreat Center
1:30pm-3:30pm Presented by White Horse Community Hub in partnership with Quietude FREE - Registration Required
Time & Location
Nov 05, 2026, 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Quietude Retreat Center, 1130 Montreat Rd, Black Mountain, NC 28711, USA
About the event
Join us for our quarterly Tea & Poetry Social, thoughtfully curated by Tracey Schmidt with refreshments lovingly prepared by Jamie Lloyd.
This session will feature the works of Wendell Berry; a novelist, poet, farmer, social critic, and environmentalist. Wendell was a Guggenheim recipient, a member of the Kentucky Writer’s Hall of Fame, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He passed in August at the age of 92. He was a beloved and often referenced writer.
Laurie Wilcox-Meyer will share some selections from her fourth poetry collection, Though the Warbler Sings, published by Finishing Line Press.
These poems are inspired by the contrasting landscapes of southeast Louisiana and the Blue Ridge Mountains. Woven too are familial ties. The collection may reveal itself as sacred activism. Transpose Edward Steichen's Family of Man into Family of Tree. These poems, a knot on Tree, limn the erasures of nature by human hands.…