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In honor of National Poetry Month, we reflect in today’s Leadership Weekly on the particular power of poetry to shape and express who we are as people, as leaders, as civil society changemakers. Listen in on an interview with Tess Taylor, watch a reading from Anastasia Tomkin, and read Jeanne Bell’s appreciation for poetry’s influence on her leadership. We hope you take pleasure, as we have, in noticing the many vibrant connections between poetry and leadership.
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Poet Tess Taylor, whose most recent collections are Rift Zone and Last West, sat down with NPQ to explore a cultural New Deal, a Dr. Fauci for the arts, and Dorothea Lange. Listen…
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Poet, NPQ contributor, and Edge Leadership member Anastasia Tomkin reads her poem, “Please don’t tell me that there isn’t a God,” from her beautiful collection, Delusions of Grandeur. “Poetry is an ancient form of self-expression that benefits the poet as much as the audience. There is something truly magical about relating to someone else’s vulnerability and candor, it can be really comforting.” Watch the video…
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On Poetry and Leadership
Reading poetry benefits the practice and experience of leadership in fascinating ways, according to NPQ’s Jeanne Bell. “The sublime thing about reading a poem is to surrender to the possibility of not knowing,” she writes. Read more…
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“How to Read a Poem” offers guidance for nervous and intrepid poetry readers alike: “A poet depends on the effort of a reader; somehow, a reader must ‘complete’ what the poet has begun.”
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