Paul Kingsnorth

  • Two Blackbirds: The Powerful Alchemy of Song

    Coming up to breathe at the start of a new semester is essential. Coming to The Deepening Ground to share those limited breaths, however, feels impossible. Just staying a day ahead of your students in the course material while being present in each moment for the necessary interactions, the life-giving exchanges of human-to-human, while carrying…

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  • Meditations from Bus Hall: A Belated New Year’s Poem

    Unsurprisingly, the new year did not usher in a slower season of life. Any resolution to visit The Deepening Ground more regularly to leave poetic breadcrumbs that lead out of the suffocating press of modernity failed within days of the calendar flipping to 2026. That’s not to say that I wasn’t writing nor that I…

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