Post #5: Thinking Abdi Nor Iftin's Call Me American

“Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, most importantly, it finds homes for us everywhere.”—Hazel Roche

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Post #4: Thinking Lee Smith's Blue Marlin

“I can do this again: read it and be there once more, anytime I like. Sifting, adding, recapturing. Making the work work while it makes me do the same. Just like leaning into the radio…”

Post #3: The Art of Reading

“My own reading skills were enhanced in schools, but my pleasure in, my passion for the art of reading came long before. It came in childhood and it began with listening.”

Post #2: Introduction to the Blog

Village Reads can and hopes to join the ongoing “movement.” Reading like writing and making, poet Gregory Orr explained recently in an interview, cultivates “active souls rather than passive victims.”