In my most recent episode I spoke with, poet, Lauren Ducrey. Lauren studied literature and grew up with the belief that you’re either born creative or you’re not. Events in her own life caused her to shift from analyzing works of art to creating them and just earlier this year, she left her job at Google to pursue poetry full time. She now leads creativity & poetry events in NYC for companies, individuals, and groups to help people find well-being through poetry. Listen to hear her talk about her journey and process, embracing her identity as a poet, AI and creativity, and how poetry is more accessible to us than we might think. Here were some of the lessons I took away from Lauren: A poem can be a pick me up, a meditation, or even a friend: Just like music, poetry can be used to access different parts of ourselves, build empathy towards one another, and have challenging conversations as a society. Creative identity can be formed from your process rather than output: Lauren has learned to re-frame her identity based on the activities she does everyday, regardless of if they result in a ‘finished’ work of art. AI can help us bring greater awareness to the creative process: In order to use AI well in creativity, we need to truly understand the discrete parts of the creative process, which requires actually engaging in the practice! To learn more about or get in touch with Lauren, check out her website, and follow her on Linked In or Instagram.Also check out her book, Tongues Tied and album, Cordes sensibles.

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