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…
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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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…
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…
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.
“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…
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A table full of poetry writing tools proves to be a magnet for veterans working on addiction recovery.
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."
