Community Art Project: Poetry ON Pottery

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 distanced, outdoors,...

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 do it, anyway.” In conjunction with the...

Poetry Heals launches Caring for Caregivers

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 has a webpage that is...

Tuesday Morning Poetry

We start Poetry Heals workshops with group poems and poetry games. A favorite game is called “exquisite corpse,” where we start with a first line only. The first person adds one line and folds over the paper so only their line shows. The first person then...