A video replay of this event is available here: https://givebutter.com/Summit2026May23Replay Part of the Poetic Medicine Summit 2026 year-long series The Expressive Art of Poetry Saturday, May 23, 2026 9:30 - 11 am Pacific Time How can poetry help us face cruelty, and begin to heal its lasting impacts? Together, we’ll consider poetry as a form of medicine: a practice of speaking, witnessing, and affirming the inherent worth of every person. ❧ ❧ ❧ The greater scope of this wo

Zoom sessions will be on Tuesdays at 10:00am Pacific Time on the following dates: May 14 and 28, June 11 and 25, July 9 and 23, August 6 and 20. Cost: There is no cost for this program due to the generous support of The Institute for Poetic Medicine (IPM). IPM offers tools and support to heal body, mind and soul through the creative and therapeutic process of hearing, speaking and writing poetry. Registration: Advance registration is required as space is limited. Register

Iona Poetry Community Field Trip Writing Together as a Celebration of Mary Oliver The poet Mary Oliver once wrote, “Attention is the beginning of devotion.” And surely that is true for her many readers who have been inspired by her close observation of nature and her living relationship with the woods, ponds, marshes, birds and wildlife where she lived on Cape Cod. To celebrate her, the Iona Poetry Community sponsored its first Mary Oliver Day this year on February 14 by ta

​​ A video replay of this event is available here: https://givebutter.com/Summit2026April26Replay Opening Weekend of IPM's Online Poetic Medicine Summit 2026: The Expressive Art of Poetry Amanda Johnston Sunday, April 26 9 am - 1 pm Pacific Daylight Time ​ Have you ever wanted to celebrate someone in your life or mark a special occasion with a poem? During times of joy and great challenges, people turn to poems that connect us through our shared human experience. Praise poems

A video replay of this event is available here: https://givebutter.com/Summit2026April25Replay Opening Weekend of IPM's Online Poetic Medicine Summit 2026: The Expressive Art of Poetry Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Saturday, April 25 9 am - 1 pm Pacific Time In the dark times will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing about the dark times. —Bertolt Brecht, “Motto” In every moment there is the chance to witness the ever-unfolding story of our own lives and the st

A video replay of this event is available here: https://givebutter.com/Summit2026April24Replay Opening Weekend of IPM's Online Poetic Medicine Summit 2026: The Expressive Art of Poetry Registration for a video replay of this event is here: https://givebutter.com/Summit2026April24Replay John Fox Friday, April 24 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm Pacific Time "Bless the spirit that makes connections, for truly we live in what we imagine. Clocks move along-side our real life with steps that are

Dear Friend of Poetic Medicine, I hope that you are well enough. Thank you for being interested in us. I can’t know but I can imagine you may be troubled, even very troubled, by what is happening on national and international dimensions. We the People , are people who treasure justice and inclusivity. We do our best to practice compassion and kindness. We are intent on being sensitive to the real needs of people – especially sensitive to the needs of the most vulnerable among

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Dear Friend of Poetic Medicine, …whose morning-time begins, like fresh linen smoothed flat by the weathered hands of this one life That’s Where You Can Hear Good Singing These lines I am drawing out from my poem January 1 say that in some way we, that you and I, even with our weathered hands, have fresh linen to start this year with. I have quoted this from Rainer Maria Rilke many times: You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. I want our fu

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

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