Poet, Author, Teacher, Natural Dreamworker
Natural-Dreamwork-and-the-Poetic-Imagination-Kenyon-Review This essay lays out the essential focus of Natural Dreamwork, the power of dream images to revive feeling. It discusses several dream sessions and also closely references the poetry of William Wordsworth. Click here to download the PDF. Click here to download the PDF.
A main difference between dreams and poetry is that seeing dream images is involuntary and effortless, while seeing images in words—reading with imagination—requires intention and participation. You can’t speed read poetry. The same is true of memory. I must concentrate to bring images to life. The life that comes to mind this morning is a … Read more
Alice Notley (November 8, 1945 – May 19, 2025). I met Alice Notley in the late 60’s when I was an undergraduyate and later while living in Blatimore we did an iterview. In recent years whenever I was in Paris I always looked up Alice and we had lunch together and hung out. our conversations … Read more
Dreams and Afflictive States of Mind With Poet and Author Rodger Kamenetz Register Here When: Tuesday, June 1, 2021 – 7 PM to 9 PM Where: Virtual Zoom Event Fee: CIL Member: $10 Non Members: Suggested Donation $20 Pre-registration Required – upon registration you will receive and email with a Zoom Link Rodger Kamenetz is an … Read more
My friend Alexis Krasilovsky who is a noted film-maker and author also does graphic art. She read into DREAM LOGIC and produced two illustrations that I wanted to share. I think one of the best ways to read a poem is to write a poem for it, or as she did, to make an art … Read more
Wordsworth is our great teacher of how to contemplate images in nature, and therefore in our dreams.
“I had a teacher in college who said, ‘You could write from your dreams,’” she told Ploughshares, the literary magazine, in 2008, “and that was like being given a bag full of gold.” I was sad to learn of the death of Jean Valentine a gifted poet who wrote in the perfume of the dream. … Read more
I was interviewed for the Calm App, and featured in their ongoing series, Sparks. Here we talk a little about the benefit of keeping track of your dreams, and how to work with the images they offer.
I first heard the question during the visit to Dharamsala in 1990 I narrated in The Jew in the Lotus. What are the methods for dealing with “afflictive states of mind”? In this hour long teaching, which I presented recently to the IMSB (Insight Meditation South Bay) I begin with a succinct presentation of HH … Read more
