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Young Campus Center. <strong>The event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the poetry reading.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Berry has received numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Vachel Lindsay Prize from \u201cPoetry\u201d and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship. Berry\u2019s essays have covered everything from agriculture to global economics, and his poetic subjects include everything from the Kentucky countryside to the Vietnam War. He lives and works with his wife, Tanya, on their farm in Port Royal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBerry was born in Henry County, Kentucky, in 1934. He earned bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees from the University of Kentucky, and received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University.<\/p>\n<p>Berry taught at the University of Kentucky from 1964-77 and from 1987-93. He has also taught at Stanford University, New York University and Georgetown College. <\/p>\n<p>The lecture is sponsored by the Delcamp Visiting Writer series.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact the public relations office at (859) 233-8120.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEXINGTON, Ky.\u2014Wendell Berry, Kentucky native, environmental activist and author of more than 40 books, will read from his recent poetry at Transylvania Thursday, Oct. 30, at 8 p.m. in the William T. Young Campus Center. The event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the poetry reading. Berry has received numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Vachel Lindsay Prize from \u201cPoetry\u201d and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship. Berry\u2019s essays have covered everything from agriculture to global economics, and his poetic subjects include everything from the Kentucky countryside to the Vietnam War. 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