How To Catch A Falling Knife: Poetic Play as the Practice of Negative Capability

In this talk DAVID RIVARD discuss how poets engage playfully and boldly with beauty and form as counterforces to existential anxieties, and how play both leads to a finished poem and remains alive in it, still ongoing. I will discuss others’ poems as examples of this aliveness and then share a “behind the scenes” look at my work and process. We will conclude with a poetry exercise.