The Poetic Art of Living in a Time Between Worlds - Emerge

In unpredictable times, poetry leaves the safe, familiar ways of knowing and speaking and listens out into new forms of being and creating. It searches for new insights between the known, it fathoms the space between people, between us and the living world, between different ways of seeing and shaping the world. It listens for new ways of being tha... See more

To find new paths to a life-affirming future, we must learn to think and decide anew and, above all, to create poetically. Such a culture of decision-making will focus on our interconnectedness with the whole of existence and pay attention to the extent to which the field of living is affected.

Poetry knows the spaces of transition; it traverses and expands them. Poems live in uncertainty.

Poetry makes our thinking and being flexible, prepares us for surprises, invites us into risk, into a complex interplay of references and meanings.

Poetry fearlessly enters the horizon of the unknowable, the fuzzy. It lives there. That is why it is so significant in an uncertain, threatened time like ours.

To speak about and in this space in-between we also need a new language that can hold the nuance, complexity, openness and connectedness that this space requires to come to its own potential. That’s why I think a poetic language, a poetization of our language and being is so important today. Poetry is intimately familiar with the in-between space, ... See more

Poetry embodies in its essence the complex interaction of being.