Ellen Bass: Ellen Bass on the Power of Poetry in Your Life

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Ellen Bass is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Her work has won award after award and rightly so - there's something so powerful, beautiful, true and often times darkly funny in her work. She says that writing poetry - as well as reading it - is an inquiry more than a description. Isn't that an interesting perspective to consider? In this episode, you'll hear her read some of her work, share her insights and experiences in life, talk about the process of writing poetry and offer some ideas that perhaps you had not considered before - especially in the way she does. Regardless of whether or not you think of yourself as a lover of poetry, you'll be touched by this episode. She is the author of Like a Beggar, The Human Line, Mules of Love, and The Courage to Heal

Sponsors www.audible.com/oneyoufeed or text oneyoufeed 500-500 to get a free book www.casper.com/oneyoufeed and get $50 toward select mattresses promo code: oneyoufeed In This Interview, Ellen Bass and I Discuss...

The Wolf Parable

Her book, Like a Beggar

That poetry is an inquiry more than a description

Discovering something about oneself when writing and reading poetry

Her poem, Relax

Tasting life

Thinking about how you are "right now"

The role of finding similarities in disparate things when using metaphor

The oneness of the world

Working hard in the chair to be a poet

How no one would expect a person to pick up a saxophone and immediately be able to play and the same is true for writing poetry

Her poem, Asking Directions in Paris

Using God in her poetry

Her poem, If You Knew

How because of mortality, one day, we as individuals are going to lose everything

That poetry helps us to see deeply into the beauty of things that are right in front of us

Introducing poetry to others as you would a novel

The important role of humor

Poets she mentioned:

Marie Howe

Jericho Brown

Natalie Diaz

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