218: Ellen Bass: Ellen Bass on the Power of Poetry in Your Life

<p><a href="http://oneyoufeed.net/support" target="_blank">Please Support The Show with a Donation</a></p><p><br></p><p>Ellen Bass is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Her work has won award after award and rightly so - there's something so powerful, beautiful, true and often times darkly funny in her work. She says that writing&nbsp;poetry - as well as reading it - is an inquiry more than a description. Isn't that an interesting perspective to consider?&nbsp;&nbsp;In this episode, you'll hear her read some of her work, share her insights and experiences in life, talk about the process of writing poetry and offer some ideas that perhaps you had not considered before - especially in the way she does. Regardless of whether or not you think of yourself as a lover of poetry, you'll be touched by this episode.</p><p>She is the author of <a href="http://amzn.to/2Cae6KS" target="_blank">Like a Beggar</a>, <a href="http://amzn.to/2C8et8w" target="_blank">The Human Line</a>, <a href="http://amzn.to/2BFRAbA" target="_blank">Mules of Love</a>, and <a href="http://amzn.to/2HxJEJR" target="_blank">The Courage to Heal</a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Sponsors</strong></p><p><a href="http://www.audible.com/oneyoufeed" target="_blank">www.audible.com/oneyoufeed</a>&nbsp;or text oneyoufeed 500-500 to get a free book</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.casper.com/oneyoufeed" target="_blank">www.casper.com/oneyoufeed</a>&nbsp;and get $50 toward select mattresses promo code: oneyoufeed</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;In This Interview, Ellen Bass and I Discuss...</p><ul><li>The Wolf Parable</li><li>Her book, <a href="http://amzn.to/2Cae6KS" target="_blank">Like a Beggar</a></li><li>That poetry is an inquiry more than a description</li><li>Discovering something about oneself when writing and reading poetry</li><li>Her poem, Relax</li><li>Tasting life</li><li>Thinking about how you are "right now"</li><li>The role of finding similarities in disparate things when using metaphor</li><li>The oneness of the world</li><