Spoken Words 19: Joe Wilkins — When We Were Birds - Publication Date |
- Mar 13, 2018
- Episode Duration |
- 00:15:54
In his memoir The Mountain and the Fathers, Joe Wilkins reckoned with loss, poverty, and the landscape of his childhood in the Big Dry of eastern Montana. Now a father, Joe Wilkins’s poems in When We Were Birds attend to what is common to us all, to what binds us together and makes us human, from grief over the loss of a livelihood or health to the anxieties and hopes we have for our children.