October 2025 WiVLA Member Meeting: Poetry and Consciousness with Martha Serpas
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Writing poetry can launch (or settle) the poet into a non-ordinary state of consciousness, one in which awareness of the world and of the self dissolve into expansive, ethereal, or other forms of being. Reading poetry deeply can have the same effect. We’ll talk about other states of consciousness we have experienced—dreaming, childbirth, meditation/prayer, for example—and compare these to the acts of creation and reception. We’ll have before us a group of poems associated with altered consciousness, and consider two in particular.
Questions outside the poems, about consciousness research, or psychedelic treatment can all be considered.
You can view a document of the poems that we discussed: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GrYr...
MARTHA SERPAS has written four volumes of poetry, including The Dirty Side of the Storm and most recently Double Effect. A native of southern Louisiana, she co-produced Veins in the Gulf, a documentary about coastal erosion. She teaches at the University of Houston and co-directs Scripts, the narrative and lyric health program at UH’s Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine. She is also a chaplain and is currently on a research team studying psilocybin as psychedelic treatment for anxiety and depression in cancer patients at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
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