Poetry Heals responded to the pandemic by making workshops and writing prompts available online for medical workers, essential workers and first responders. We want to help take care of the those who are taking care of us. Caring for Caregivers…
Free Poetry Heals Open Workshops on Wednesday Evenings – 6 PM MDT
Poetry Heals is hosting FREE on line, open poetry workshops for everyone on Wednesday evenings until we don't need them anymore. The video on the lower right gives you a taste of what a workshop is like. Step away from…
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Thursday Night Poetry Workshops
Have you been looking for time and space to write about what is on your heart and mind? Thursday nights at Penrose Library (20 N. Cascade, Colorado Springs) are for Poetry Heals workshops. February 13, 20, 27 and March 5…
Tuesday Morning Poetry
Homeless folkx write poems together.
Combat Paper, Poetry Heals, and Afghanistan
I deployed to Afghanistan for the entirety of my 23rd year of life. Every solitary day, I wore the dim muddled grey-green combat uniform as I trudged to work at my fuel point in a remote FOB in the Paktika…
Poetry and Pottery Video
https://youtu.be/ZTfI08aq19kLook at all the people and stuff in this short video of Poetry and Pottery! We gather together artists, potters, and writers for a summer afternoon's event for most weeks in the summer. And this is what it looks like…
Our First Book! Poetry Heals: Collected Poems from Poetry and Pottery
Poetry Heals is about of using poetry writing to process and start healing trauma, but we can produce a product, too. Our first poetry collection includes poems by all sorts of people who sat down and wrote during our free,…
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The Stories of Poetry Heals
Poetry Heals had some great stories this week. In this photo, we have a family from Nice, France who wrote poems in French and English. They were visiting friends who live here, and you really can't tell who is who. We also…
Poetry and Pottery Builds Community Bridges in Manitou Springs
The officers were frustrated, but it seemed like business as usual. They had missed the culprits. And then they saw Robert under the pavilion, sitting at the writing table. The officers approached Robert and asked him if he could help them out with the cat callers.
Teen Writers Take Over Class
I had written a writing prompt on the white board before I went to fetch the students for the after school writing group. Landmark Community School is a safe place for teens in recovery from addiction. The kids are terrific.…
“I think I’ll get back to writing, now.”
Finally we settled into writing poems using the fill-in-the-blank templates Poetry Heals carries around in binders. These templates help writers look at their feelings. He picked 'Relationships,' and added,"But I don't write anymore."
Community Art Project: Poetry ON Poetry
For years, our signature project was a big, public, weekly event in a city park, Poetry and Pottery......so, that wasn't happening in 2020. Mark Wong, the pottery part, the staff from the Manitou Arts Center, and I had a socially…
Poetry ON Pottery September 4th!
Make your own tray or wall hanging Because of COVID-19, Poetry and Pottery couldn’t meet face to face in Soda Springs Park during Summer 2020, so we are just going to do it another way! Our theme is “We can…
Celebrating with Warriors 1st
Warriors 1st Ribbon Cutting Poem Veterans and entrepreneurs need resilience To avoid damage or falling prey to manipulation God helps us envision perseverance and abundance In the face of depression and suicide And all sorts of heavy stuff. Kindness…
Poetry Heals Write a Poem in Gaza City
Poetry Heals connected with students in Gaza City through the technical machinations of Share Studios . Two members of the Gaza Poets Society stepped inside the portal space in Gaza City as I stepped into the big, gold shipping container…
