Dear Friend of Poetic Medicine, Thriving & Comfort, in the Room Together I hope you are well and thriving. This time of year, a transitional passage into the new, could be considered a place where you envision the possible. I cheer that possible for you. If this letter finds you in a more difficult place, I am sending gentle encouragement and comfort. Comfort? Yes, comfort may be what most of us long for, especially in these days of harsh, hurtful actions and rhetoric in some

Dear Poetic Medicine Friends, The months roll on and on! This morning I am feeling that this is different than what relationships are about. When I begin this letter “Dear Poetic Medicine Friends” I slow down and someone’s face will appear. I slow down and drop inside to hear what my heart wants to say to you. The Choice to Slow Down In order to “drop inside” I slow down. I must slow down. Wherever that mysterious place is, the clock isn’t ticking. Good fortune my heart is be

Dear Friend of Poetic Medicine,   To begin this letter I want to pause to remember Mari Alschuler -- an important person in my experience...

June 15, 2025 Dear Poetic Medicine Friend, I am astonished that I date this letter as being written on June 15. Ohmigod, half of this...

Dear Poetic Medicine Friend, Good day to you! It is my strong hope that this letter finds you well, even thriving. My hope is touched...

I introduced my letter to you with the subtitle If You Put Your Foot Down in this Landscape .  What follows here is a portion of that...

April 8, 2025 Dear Poetic Medicine Friends, Poetry is not a very popular art form these days, but it is an essential part of human life. ...

A Blessing for the Woods   Before I leave, almost without noticing, before I cross the road and head out to what I have intentionally postponed –   Let me stop to say a blessing for these woods: for crows barking and squirrels scampering, for trees and fungus and multi-colored leaves,   for the way sunlight laces shadows through each branch and leaf of tree, for these paths that take me in, for these paths that lead me out.      Michael S. Glaser Michael Glaser It was in 2014

January 14, 2025 Dear Poetic Medicine Friend, Welcome to this new year.  I greet you with gladness.  How can I best affirm that in this...

We are excited to share with you highlights of the work that The Institute for Poetic Medicine  has been able to offer during 2024...

It is December and I would like to make brief reports on some of my activities for The Institute for Poetic Medicine during this year,...

Darnell Epps is a proud native of Baltimore, MD. He serves as the director of Fair Play (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice) at...