Jane Hirshfield: Why Write Poetry? https://bdelectablemnts.runboard.com/t2361 Runboard| Jane Hirshfield: Why Write Poetry? en-us Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:43:42 +0000 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:43:42 +0000 https://www.runboard.com/ rssfeeds_managingeditor@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds managing editor) rssfeeds_webmaster@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds webmaster) akBBS 60 Re: Jane Hirshfield: Why Write Poetry?https://bdelectablemnts.runboard.com/p16757,from=rss#post16757https://bdelectablemnts.runboard.com/p16757,from=rss#post16757Yes, thank you Libra! Now that's two good articles bookmarked. What a treat, Chrisnondisclosed_email@example.com (Christine98)Sat, 08 Feb 2014 11:04:12 +0000 Re: Jane Hirshfield: Why Write Poetry?https://bdelectablemnts.runboard.com/p16755,from=rss#post16755https://bdelectablemnts.runboard.com/p16755,from=rss#post16755Oh, thank you, libra! I just discovered this now and can't wait to read it. (Too tired tonight.)nondisclosed_email@example.com (Katlin)Fri, 07 Feb 2014 22:24:14 +0000 Jane Hirshfield: Why Write Poetry?https://bdelectablemnts.runboard.com/p16752,from=rss#post16752https://bdelectablemnts.runboard.com/p16752,from=rss#post16752"Poetry magnetizes both depth and the possible. It offers widening of aperture and increase of reach. We live so often in a damped-down condition, obscured from ourselves and others. The sequesters are social—convention, politeness—and personal: timidity, self-fear or self-blindness, fatigue. To step into a poem is to agree to risk. Writing takes down all protections, to see what steps forward. Poetry is a trick of language-legerdemain, in which the writer is both magician and audience. You reach your hand into the hat and surprise yourself with rabbit or memory, with odd verb or slant rhyme or the flashing scarf of an image. This is true for discovering some newness of the emotions, and also true of ideas. Poems foment revolutions of being. Whatever the old order was, a poem will change it." http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/one-true-thing/201401/jane-hirshfield-why-write-poetrynondisclosed_email@example.com (libramoon)Fri, 07 Feb 2014 14:51:55 +0000