Wild & Scenic Film Festival: Where activism gets inspired
“THE WILD REQUIRES that we learn the terrain, nod to all the plants and animals and birds, ford the streams and cross the ridges, and tell a good story when we get back home.” So writes legendary Beat poet Gary Snyder in his influential collection The Practice of the Wild. The essays are the basis […]
Sierra FoodWineArt mentioned in San Francisco Chronicle
Sierra FoodWineArt and Foothills Poet Gary Snyder gets a mention in the San Francisco Chronicle on Monday: “– Inside word on Gary Snyder, from Nevada City neighbor Jeff Pelline, editor of the magazine Sierra FoodWineArt: Snyder’s homestead is on a remote ridge north of town. You’d expect him to own some macho dog, but actually […]
Foothills Poet Gary Snyder a hit at S.F. Film Festival
Sierra Foothills’ Poet Gary Snyder was a hit at the San Francisco Film Festival, where the movie about him, “The Practice of The Wild,” debuted this week. We visited with Gary, fellow Poet Jim Harrison, Will Hearst and his wife, Margaret, Chronicle Editor-At-Large Phil Bronstein and former Gov. Jerry Brown before the film at a […]
Film about Foothills’ Poet Gary Snyder coming in May
Will Hearst and I have known each other for years, starting when he ran the S.F. Examiner and I worked at The Chronicle. We also got together when he left the Examiner for Kleiner Perkins, the Silicon Valley venture-capital firm. Here’s a pioneering multimedia clip with Will, circa 1996, when I was Editor at CNET. […]
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