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Linda Hartley led me to this very wonderful page. Where I'm From

"Where Are You From?

'If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.' Wendell Berry, among others, has voiced this idea that we need to understand our roots to know our place in the world. A poem by George Ella Lyons is called 'Where I'm From.' I first heard it read by Appalachian poet Rita Quillen. Six months later, we used it as a writing assignment in a class taught by my friend Elizabeth Hunter at the Campbell Folk School in North Carolina. The poem lends itself to imitation and makes a wonderful exercise of exploration in belonging."

I am now working on my version.

In the land of member directories, bios and yellow pages in the online interaction world, I miss the human scent, the poetry of our cadences. So this poem and the act of writing it may be something to add to my practice in bringing more human voice to online interactions.

What is your poem?