The demanding schedule of Wheaton’s provost has not kept Karen An-hwei Lee from pursuing her own literary career. Published by Slant Books, which was founded by Gregory Wolfe (formerly of Image Journal), Lee’s latest poetry collection centers around agriculture, nature, our human footprint and how it all might be redeemed.
“Rose Is a Verb” is inspired by Virgil’s “Georgics,” a didactic ode to rural living and farming the land written in 29 BC. Virgil’s long poem focuses on the relationship be...
