“We are living in an extreme moment, and one where it’s very hard to know what effective action looks like against crises of a scale we’ve not before encountered. These accounts of people trying to grapple with that reality are sometimes inspiring and often cautionary, and always a spur to thinking about how the rest of us might accomplish the most we can.”
– Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Lisa Wells is an author, poet, and co-founder of a small, nonprofit press based in Seattle, Washington called Letter Machine Editions. Her latest work is Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World. In Believers Lisa locates folks who meet the climate catastrophe with a fierce and loving gaze, with their sights on restoring humanity’s relationship with the planet as best they can. With a poetic and engaging pen, Lisa continually asks how then shall we live? Lisa and I talk about despair and love, trash as the shadow of our culture, doing the best we can, dropping out of high school and joining a wilderness school, and much more.
Visit Lisa at lisawellswriter.com or lettermachine.org.
Episode Show Notes
Works by Lisa Wells
- Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World
- The Fix
- Letter Machine Editions Press (Lisa’s literary press)
Resources & People Mentioned
- Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
- Alan Alda
- Viola Spolin
- Wilco
- Propagandhi
- The Liars’ Club by Mary Karr
- Alan Gingsberg
- Sylvia Plath
- Letter Machine Editions Press
- Jessica Laser
- Dennis Johnson
- The Point by Charles D’Ambrosio
- Ched Myers
- Watershed Discipleship
- Rob Schlegel
Drink Recommended
- Whiskey and a campfire
photo of Lisa Wells pulled from orion.com
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