Poetics, not Dogmatics (Part 1)

I began a conversation titled Poetics not Dogmatics. (Poetics is a broader category than poetry.) Poetics invites, provokes, engages imagination. Dogmatics are definitive and determinative. Poetics is open.  Dogmatics seeks closure. The language of poetics (and it is not always text) and the language of dogmatics are different. We live with both. But I suggested that what the world needs now is more poetics not dogmatics.  I tried to illustrate poetics, then drew from a blog LUCID by Ruth Ben-Ghiat about authoritarian language and ended with some thoughts on Lent and Easter.  I will continue this conversation at our next second Saturday April 13.