Welcome to the second 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 “What is Color in Poetry, or Is It the Wild Wind in the Space of the Word?” This lecture was given September 20, 2013, at New York University.

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 the lecture, we’ll hear a conversation on color, between Lasky and visual artist Tiffany Patterson. To learn more about Tiffany Patterson, please visit her website, here, and check out the BWLS blog to see the two paintings they discuss in this episode.

Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings. Thank you to NYU 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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