Welcome to the first episode of Season Two of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. This season, we're listening to five lectures by Dorothea Lasky, and related conversations with experts in some of the subjects of Lasky's talks. Today we'll hear "Poetry and the Metaphysical 'I'.” This lecture was given October 10, 2013, at Harvard University's Woodberry Poetry Room.

Lasky's lectures explore the non-linear and highly complex relationship between language, creativity, states of being, and meaning-making, considering, for example, the “I” as multiplicitous shape-shifter in search of the wild power of poetry.

Following today's lecture, we’ll consider some of these topics, in a brief conversation between Lasky and two amazing people: poet, ceremonialist, energetic herbalist and intuitive Danielle Vogel, and artist and intuitive Asher Hartman. To learn more about Danielle Vogel, visit her websites here and here. To learn more about Asher Hartman and his work, visit his websites here and here.

For more information about Bagley Wright lecturers,  as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings, visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org. Thank you to the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University for partnering with the Series for this event, and thank you for listening.

Dorothea Lasky's book of collected BWLS lectures, Animal (Wave Books, 2019) is here.

Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions

from the Free Music Archive

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