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Our Mission

The Institute for Poetic Medicine offers tools and support to heal body, mind, and spirit through the creative and therapeutic process of hearing, speaking, and writing poetry.

The Institute for Poetic Medicine is a non-profit 501(c)3

Upcoming Poetic Medicine Events

  • Making it Real with Healthy Choices 2025
    Making it Real with Healthy Choices 2025
    Jun 21, 2025, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM PDT
    Poetry Circle
    A session from our popular Poetry as a Tool for Wellness series!
  • Listening to Self and Others July 2025
    Listening to Self and Others July 2025
    Sat, Jul 19
    Jul 19, 2025, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
    Poetry Circle
    A session from our popular Poetry as a Tool for Wellness series! July 19, 11 am - 1 pm PDT
  • Poetry of Nature 2025 — A Year of Poetic Medicine
    Poetry of Nature 2025 — A Year of Poetic Medicine
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    Letters Memberships Available Now
    Join Now!
    Letters Memberships Available Now
    NanLeah and Geoff facilitate Two levels of membership are available: a monthly Poetic Medicine Circle, and a Letters Circle option. The contributions from participation in this program are used to support the greater programming of IPM.
Sandstone

Poetry really is the cure.
When we stop jabbering long enough to listen to what is going on around, among, and inside us—and we have someone to help us put that into the fewest, truest words available to us—the air clears and the aliveness flows through all the spaces in between.
 

Barbara Brown Taylor
Writer, Speaker, Spiritual Contrarian

Poetic Medicine Community

Because our personal experiences touch the common ground we share with others, poetry offers a way to connect an otherwise seemingly unconnected community.

 

We invite you to share your experiences

your poems

within these poetic medicine groups. 

Poetry Commons is a group that is open to all: ask questions, share poems, and become part of the larger poetic medicine community.

 

Other groups are available by invitation through registration for IPM programming.

Groups

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