Homeless folkx write poems together.
Category: Poetry Heals in Action
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 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…
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.
Poetry and Pottery Builds Community Bridges in Manitou Springs
“Robert, I wonder if you can help us?” Every Wednesday afternoon in the summer, Poetry and Pottery appears in Soda Springs Park in Manitou Springs. Potters and writing mentors set up pottery wheels, a kiln, and tables full of writing…
“Do I have to write if I sit down?”
A table full of poetry writing tools proves to be a magnet for veterans working on addiction recovery.
“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."
