David Hassler - Leaping thought, authoring a life, and a spirit of passionate inquiry

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 saidTraveling 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)Naomi Shihab NyeFuture of social media (35:10)Jonathan HaidtWilliam 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 ShepherdPassion: Dancing (Teju Cole - sitting in the dark waiting for something to happen)Heart sing: Staging Dear VaccineScrewed up: Salacious poetry for kindergarteners Find David online:Kent State UniversityTwitter: @DavidWickPoetry'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series  David’s playlist