On her website, mythopoetry.com, poet Stephanie Pope is creating a place where the intersections between mythology, psyche, and poetry come to life.
Mythopoeia translates to “the making of myth” — the Greek root for poet is “poiein” — “to make.”
As a poet, Stephanie is a maker, and specifically a maker of myth, weaving strands between the art of imagining and the deep stories that shape our psyches.
And she is a maker of community on her website, inviting and sharing poems, essays, blogs, book and film reviews, and dialogues about the nature of myth and making.
In a culture that is tempted to believe that our myths are dead, artists like Stephanie are important Imaginal Activists, not only standing witness to the power of myth, but bringing it to life in rich, relevant, fecund ways.
While I’m trying to reach outwards into a broader definition of how imagination exists in our world, as we have tended to see it as the provenance of the arts and artists, it is also important to remember and honor the makers in our midst who play with the palettes of the arts.
You can get lost wending your way through the well of words on Stephanie’s site (and it is a lovely lostness!), but be sure to read some of her poetry on your journey there. It is where her heart sings.
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