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Free Poetry Heals Open Workshops on Wednesday Evenings – 6 PM MDT

by Molly Wingate7 Apr 20207 Jul 20201 Comment

  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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Thursday Night Poetry Workshops

by Molly Wingate7 Feb 20207 Feb 2020

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…

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Tuesday Morning Poetry

by Molly Wingate17 Jan 202017 Jan 2020Leave a comment

Homeless folkx write poems together.

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Combat Paper, Poetry Heals, and Afghanistan

by 8 Dec 20198 Dec 2019

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…

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Poetry Heals Write a Poem in Gaza City

by Molly Wingate6 Nov 201812 Nov 2018

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…

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Poetry and Pottery Builds Community Bridges in Manitou Springs

by Molly Wingate3 Jul 20183 Jul 2018Leave a comment

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.

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Poetry and Pottery Builds Community Bridges in Manitou Springs

by Molly Wingate2 Jul 2018

“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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“Do I have to write if I sit down?”

by Molly Wingate29 Dec 20173 Jul 2018Leave a comment

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

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“I think I’ll get back to writing, now.”

by Molly Wingate12 Dec 2017Leave a comment

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."

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Poetry Heals provides therapeutic writing classes to teen trauma survivors and others who are incarcerated, homeless, institutionalized, in recovery, or recently released. Thanks to grant funding and individual donors, trained writing mentors can work one-on-one with writers at no cost to the client and little or no cost to the hosting organization. We partner with many community non-profits in the Pikes Peak Region, serving people in need throughout Colorado’s Front Range.

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