What Role Does Art Play In Business?

Today on Conflict Managed, Dr. Leslie LaChance, a poet and educator, shares her thoughts on the role of practicing the arts in business and everyday life, and how the participation in art can calm us, inducing self-reflection and a greater capacity to listen and create. Leslie talks about her first bosses as excellent teachers, seeing correction as opportunity instead of failure, and the importance of how we communicate ideas with others. Leslie also graces us with one of her poems.

Leslie LaChance is a poet, essayist, and freelance editor living in Nashville, Tennessee, where she also teaches literature and writing classes and collaborates with fellow artists on creative projects. Some of her poems and stories have appeared in Still: The Journal, Mead, Quiddity, Apple Valley Review, The Birmingham Poetry Review, The Greensboro Review, Juked, and other journals.  How She Got That Way, her poetry chapbook, was published in the quartet edition Mend & Hone from Toadlily Press in 2013. Three of her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and her poem “Left” received a Best of the Net Award from Sundress.net.

Leslie has published articles and reviews in magazines and journals such as The East Nashvillian, Stirring: A Literary Collection, and AWP Pedagogy Forum. She blogs about health, illness, survivorship, and well-being at Sojourn & Stardust.  Leslie also edits articles for magazines and academic journals and assists both professional and aspiring authors in preparing manuscripts for publication. She has taught writing and literature courses at the State University of New York at New Paltz, Volunteer State Community College, University of Tennessee (Knoxville and Martin campuses), and Webb School of Knoxville.  Leslie also teaches community workshops and professional development seminars in poetry and creative practice.

 

A Little Pep Talk*

 

Ace, your soul

is made of diamonds

and that’s just science

like how the wind shapes

itself to love you

in broad daylight

as you are

 

Human as you are

know this: your

breath is holy

smoke

 

Sweet thing, your brain

has serious game and

your heart that’s

always breaking

shimmers kinstukuroi

in gold repair

 

* A found poem inspired by Pep Talk Generator crafted by the Raccoon Society

Arrangement and Improvisation by Leslie LaChance

 

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