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Poetry



According to Alan Watts, “The whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.” Poetry is how we explore the liminal space between feeling and rationality, knowledge and understanding. For some, poetry is the language of the Divine consciousness. For others, it is the purest way of expressing their inner selves and experiences. Finding new ways to think and speak about our truth can bring us to a closer understanding of each other and the meaning of our existence.

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homage to hips

Lucille Clifton reads her poem.

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Clarity & Connection

In Clarity & Connection, Yung Pueblo describes how intense emotions accumulate in our subconscious and condition us to act and react in certain ways. In his characteristically spare, poetic style, he guides readers through the excavation and release of the past that is required for growth.

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Start Close In by David Whyte

David Whyte recites his own poem Start Close In.

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FindCenterThe discipline of poetry is in overhearing yourself say difficult truths from which it is impossible to retreat.

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Field Guide to the Haunted Forest

This poetry collection celebrates the impossible truths of the natural world and the magic that hides in plain sight. Poet and podcaster Jarod K.

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Billy Collins on How to Write Poetry

If you aren't a poet but want to get started, how would you do that?

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Black Feeling Black Talk/Black Judgement

Black Feeling, Black Talk/Black Judgement is one of the single most important volumes of modern African-American poetry.

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FindCenterPoetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into an idea, then into more tangible action.

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If I Should Have a Daughter . . . | Sarah Kay

“If I should have a daughter, instead of Mom, she’s gonna call me Point B ...” began spoken word poet Sarah Kay, in a talk that inspired two standing ovations at TED2011.

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Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

Classics of English poetry, alternately describing childhood states of innocence and their inevitable ensnarement in a corrupt and repressive world. Contains the full texts of all the poems in the original 1794 edition of both collections.

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