Oct. 11, 2008: The Writer's Almanac

Saturday’s Poem: “Sleeping” by Raymond Carver from Ultramarine. Saturday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of Vietnamese monk, writer, and activist Thich Nhat Hanh, born in 1926 in Tha Tien, Vietnam. He became a Buddhist monk when he was 16 years old. During the Vietnam War, he decided that monks shouldn’t just stay in monasteries and meditate all day long while a war was going on. So he founded an organization that helped rebuild bombed villages, set up schools and medical centers, and…