John Garry
John Garry
John Garry is a resident of South Bend’s near northwest neighborhood and serves on the board of La Casa de Amistad. Follow John online: Instagram - Twitter
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This week on the podcast, guest host Pam Blair is reading "Between" by Groshonda McDonald and reflecting on what it might be saying about our life together in South Bend.
This week, we are reading "Paradise on Fire" by Jahnari Pruitt and reflecting on what it might be saying about our life together in South Bend.
This week, we are reading "Where We Are" by Gerald Locklin and reflecting on what it might be saying about our life together in South Bend.
This week on South Bend on Purpose, we are reading a selection from Galway Kinnell’s poem “When You Have Lived a Long Time Alone” and reflecting on what it might be saying about our life together in South Bend.
This week on South Bend on Purpose, we are reading selections from Audre Lorde’s poem “New York City 1970” and reflecting on what it might be saying about our life together in South Bend.
This week on South Bend on Purpose, we are reading Alice Walker’s poem “We Alone” and reflecting on what it might be saying about our life together in South Bend.
This week on South Bend on Purpose, we are trying something new. Our friend John Garry is joining the show to share "prose for the city" with us—shorter episodes that will contain a poetry reading and guided reflections.
South Bend should control its own narrative. If we don’t tell a story, we are living in someone else’s. In Midwest Futures, author Phil Christman sketches a history of our region, its frontiers and utopias, in the hopes that we can settle the coming decades just a bit better.
On the first weekend of May, thirteen friends traveled to Culver, Indiana to spend three days in the Clemens Vonnegut Jr. House, a 130-year-old summer cottage that has become emblematic of a community’s fight for its soul.