Welcome to the third 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 "On the Materiality of the Imagination.” This lecture was given November 21, 2013, at Seattle Arts and Lectures.

Lasky's lectures explore the non-linear and highly complex relationship between language, color, time, 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 tune in to a conversation on the supernatural, between Lasky, paranormal investigator Vinny Carbone, and mystic artist and spiritual teacher, Lou Florez. To learn more about Vinny Carbone and his work, please visit his YouTube channel and his Instagram. To learn more about Lou Florez and his work, please visit his website, Instagram, and his nonprofit, Water Has No Enemy. 

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 Seattle Arts and Lectures 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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