Episode 96 Bonus: David Keplinger on Ghazals and How Constraints Spark Creativity

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Episode 96 Bonus: David Keplinger on Ghazals and How Constraints Spark Creativity

Christie Aschwanden

Sep 28, 2023

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Poet David Keplinger helps unravel several creative mysteries in this bonus episode, for instance, what the heck is a prose poem, (and why is it a wonderful thing)? Why can oddly specific prompts can inspire and relax the muse? Why are constraints such good fodder for creativity? And how does an overriding metaphor both limit us and push us in fabulous …

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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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