Poetry-Knowing why the Revolution must come (The Creative Life)
Channel: ThinkTech Hawaii
Date: 2021-07-07

Philadelphia to Mount Vernon: Black Is.  The hosts for this episode are Phyllis Blees and Darlene Boyd.  The guest for this episode is Roger Reeves.


Discussion focused on poetry as a creative art. Key questions discussed included, how does the poetic process happen? Can poetry be taught effectively? Does poetry shift communication, understanding and problem solving to a new creative dimension?Reeves quoted from Adrienne Rich's poem "Dreamwood": "poetry, isn't revolution but a way of knowing why it must come."Reeve's commented that the future of American letters requires caring for the former masters while deforming their mastery, obscuring and transforming their prosaic technologies that record the banality of violence (the master's journal)into verse that subverts the very violence."We discussed how are we beholden or not beholden to tradition and how this tradition can lead to violence.



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