Author
Sonnet Coggins
Sonnet is The Merwin Conservancy's Executive Director. After completing a Masters degree in Education at the University of Virginia, Sonnet moved to France, then later completed a Master of Arts in French Language and Literatures, with a focus on cultural history and interpretation of historic sites. She worked with the Denver Art Museum, then the Williams College Museum of Art, where she co-curated The Field is the World: Williams, Hawai‘i, and Material Histories in the Making. Sonnet has been with the Conservancy since 2018.
Remembrance in the Garden

An essay resurfaces, and resonates

In our care and attention is our continuity

A gesture of continuity, and an act of letting go

The imagination as our only (diaphanous) hope.

Keeping Our Concerns ‘At Home in the Mind’

Finding an “Eager Home” in the Garden

We are witness to a critical moment in the life of this place

Preserving and Restoring While Embracing Entropy

The Garden Dojo Continues On As a Place of Mind, Spirit, and Hand

Cusp of Change

A wink to a broader truth of our moment

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