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…
Read More Free Poetry Heals Open Workshops on Wednesday Evenings – 6 PM MDT
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…
Homeless folkx write poems together.
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…
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…
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,…
Read More Our First Book! Poetry Heals: Collected Poems from Poetry and Pottery
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…
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.
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.…
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."
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 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…
Poetry Heals is turning 3 years old. I am simply humbled. Dozens of people pitched in to help create this thriving nonprofit organization. We have a board of directors and everything! So many have encouraged me, guided me and have…
