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.
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