Poetry comes up so often in my conversations these days. Our society in crisis seems to be desperate for it, without being able to name that desperation until a poem calls it out of us. For years, award-winning Poet David Hassler has been defining and redefining how poetry enters and moves people and communities.
Show Notes:
- Jane Hirshfield (04:30)
- Poets for Science (04:50)
- Francis Weller - how we tend the dead is as important as how we tend the living (09:30)
- Prayer wheels (14:00)
- Buddhist principles of Right Absorption and Right Understanding (17:20)
- Maggie Anderson (21:00)
- Krista Tippet - poetry is the human capacity to articulate truth at the edges of what words can touch (22:30)
- Poems always acknowledge the limits of what can be said
- Traveling Stanzas (23:10)
- Robert Bly - metaphor is how you say something true about a complicated thing (24:00)
- Donald Hall The Unsayable Said (24:30)
- The art of gathering (27:40)
- Maj Ragain - poetry is the means by which a place comes to know itself (30:00)
- Dear Vaccine (33:20)
- Future of social media (35:10)
- William Stafford - poetry is the kind of thing that you have to see out of the corner of your eye and it will disappear without favor (37:00)
- Richard Feynman's Ode to Wonder (39:00)
- Healing the Heart of Democracyby Parker J Palmer (42:00)
- Dear Ukraine (48:20)
- Marge Piercy (50:00)
- Pursuing a question (51:40)
- Lightning round (53:00)
- Book: New Self, New Worldby Philip Shepherd
- Passion: Dancing (Teju Cole - sitting in the dark waiting for something to happen)
- Heart sing: Staging Dear Vaccine
- Screwed up: Salacious poetry for kindergarteners
- Find David online:
- Kent State University
- Twitter: @DavidWickPoetry
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