Red Hot Living – Poet Judith Westley Shares How Poetry Can Help You Cope with and Experience Life and Tips for Writing Your Own Poetry
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
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Judith Westley, MFA, poet, and recent graduate from Warren Wilson College shares her thoughts on how poetry gives life meaning.
Calling poetry a “spiritual vocation”, Judy explains how lyric poetry freezes a moment in time and communicates that moment with the reader or listener through sensual emotion (both physically feeling the poem and connecting with the poet’s level of feeling).
She says poetry “Honors difficulty by elevating it to an art form”. As you listen to her read two poems: “Stroke” about her father and one about Peonies and the frozen moment in a disintegrating marriage, you will see how poetry helps make sense out of difficulty. (more…)
