Episode 71 Bonus: Kim Rosen on How Failure Can Foster Creativity

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Episode 71 Bonus: Kim Rosen on How Failure Can Foster Creativity

Christie Aschwanden

Sep 29, 2022

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“The best thing that might happen to you is you might fail,” says Kim Rosen to her younger self. In this beautiful bonus episode, the poet, teacher, performer and ritual leader talks about why it’s ok to not have a daily creative routine, how failure can foster creativity, and how Rumi’s words have guided her practice.

Kim Rosen, M.F.A., author of Saved…

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Emerging Form is a podcast about the creative process in which a journalist (Christie Aschwanden) and a poet (Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer) discuss creative conundrums over wine. Each episode concludes with a game of two questions in which a guest joins in to help answer questions about the week's topic. Season one guests include poets, novelists, journalists, a song writer, a circus performer, a sketch artist and a winemaker.

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