Save Your Life with Art and Poetry: Part 2 (The Creative Life)
Channel: ThinkTech Hawaii
Date: 21/07/2023

We 'Contain Multitudes'.  The host for this show is Phyllis Blees.  The guest is Joshua Kight.  

We learn that when we get into the habit of writing poetry, we continually surprise ourselves with new layers of thought. To paraphrase Walt Whitman, we discover 'the multitudes within.'

Kight teaches how poetry differs from prose. Prose is explanation. We
1) lay out an idea ('Tell em what we’re gonna tell ‘em'),
2) present our idea and develop it with increasing clarity ('Tell em'), and
3) summarize and recapitulate our ideas ('Tell em what you told em').

Poetry is discovery. We begin with a 'triggering idea,' but as we write there is a switch that happens where you discover the real subject of the poem. It can come in the 2nd sentence, final thought, or anywhere in between. That 'discovery' is what makes poetry magical for poet and audience. It requires divergent thinking and openness to what’s given to us by life and by our capacity to move beyond our orthodoxies. 
Kight weaves the subject of his poems in and across his other art forms: painting, drawing, and videography.

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