Jane Kenyon was an American poet and translator. Her work is described as “simple, spare, and emotionally resonant.”   Her poems are frequently filled with rural images and a love of nature. Kenyon’s poems also reference her battles with depression. She was New Hampshire’s poet laureate at the time of her death from leukemia at the early age of 47. I am the blossom pressed in a book, found again after two hundred years… I am the maker, the lover, and the keeper… When the young girl who starves sits down to a table she will sit beside me… I am food on the prisoner’s plate… I am water rushing to…

Photo by Stephen Ellis on Unsplash Wendell Berry is an American poet, essayist, novelist, and environmentalist. He lives on a farm in Kentucky. He strongly believes that frequently too much importance is placed on wild lands without a proper appreciation for farming.  Berry’s poetry “celebrates the holiness of life and everyday miracles often taken for granted.” When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of…

Photo by Guillaume Flandre on Unsplash Carl Sandburg was a poet, biographer, writer, and editor. He lived from 1878-1967. He won the Pulitzer Prize three times; twice for his poetry and once for a six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln. Sandburg described poetry as “a pack-sack of invisible keepsakes. Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration. Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.” He also said, “I’ll probably die propped up in bed trying to write a poem about America.” love is a deep and a dark and a lonely and you take it deep take…