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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...
Free Poetry Heals Open Workshops on Wednesday Evenings – 6 PM MDT
Wednesday Night Poetry Heals Workshops have a new Zoom address: Join us at 6 PM MDT on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month! This is a wonderful way to step away from the all day, every day experience of the pandemic and experience some joy. Zoom Link...
Poetry Heals and Dragon Theatre Announce a New Summer Collaboration!
As summer winds down and families prepare for students to return to school, there is still plenty of fun to be had when it comes to poetry, theater, and art! Poetry Heals is pleased to announce a new collaboration with the local performance group, Dragon Theatre,...
Poetry and Pottery Returns for Summer 2022
Tomorrow marks the first of seven Poetry and Pottery workshops in the Soda Springs Park Pavilion in Manitou Springs. Our annual collaboration with Wong Works pottery will run from June 14th-July 26th, held every Tuesday from noon to 2:00. This year, we have a new...
The Return of Poetry and Pottery
Mark Wong teaches Frankie how to make a pot. Poetry and Pottery filled the pavilion at Soda Springs Park in Manitou Springs, Colorado once again this summer. For six Tuesday afternoons, we gathered up tourists, locals, and street people to write poems, learn to make...
How to Complete Your Poetry ON Pottery Project
In case you misplace the paper handout that comes with your ball of clay, don't worry! Here are the instructions for completing your Poetry ON Pottery project! To view Mark Wong's instructional video on building your pottery piece, please go to:...
Please Vote for Poetry Heals in the “Choose Your Charity” Contest!
Poetry Heals was selected for the chance to win cash in Emerald Fields' quarterly "Choose Your Charity" contest. Every quarter, a handful of local Manitou-based charities compete for the grand prize, with the winnings going to the organization that collects the most...
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, brainstorming...
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 Manitou Art Center...