Joe Henry | The Sun Magazine

Joe Henry

Joe Henry has written the lyrics to nearly sixty songs recorded by a variety of artists. He lives in Woody Creek, Colorado, and recently received a Creative Fellowship Award in fiction from the Colorado Council on the Arts.

— From November 1992
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

To Invent Fire

I am much too concerned with the actual earth and what walks on it to spend my small time here seeking to define such abstractions as capitalism and socialism, and broader still, society and country.

November 1992
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