Listen: Essays on Living the Good Life

by Bobbi Buchanan

"Through her work at New Southerner, Bobbi Buchanan has established herself as an important voice in support of environmental stewardship. This collection of brief essays is a gentle manifesto weaving her own experiences of becoming more mindful in her choices about food, work, and money with her belief that our consumer culture not only damages the environment, but our own sense of gratitude and wonder. Brilliant, funny, and moving, the essays remind us to listen and serve as a kind of daily devotional for those of us trying to move more gracefully upon the earth."-Wanda Fries

42 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2013

About the author

Bobbi Buchanan has led therapeutic writing workshops for inmates and others in recovery from addiction and trauma since 2013. She promotes a self-care regimen of unplugging, communing with nature, and journaling. A poet and author, Buchanan taught college writing at Jefferson Community and Technical College and now teaches English at Valley High School in Louisville. She launched and ran a literary journal, New Southerner, for more than 10 years, and she edited and published seven volumes of creative works by inmates while teaching therapeutic writing and life skills at the Bullitt County Detention Center. She is a Kentucky Foundation for Women grant recipient and led a writing workshop for troubled youth at YouthBuild as part of HEAL Smoketown, a nonprofit effort by artists to improve community connection and health in Louisville’s first and oldest historically Black neighborhood.