Transformative Writing Quotes

“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.” James Michener *  *  *  *                 “One of the major sources of poetry for me was silence, all that’s not spoken about . . . So the silences in our...

Transformative Writing Resources

Writing Away the Demons: Stories of Creative Coping Through Transformative Writing Resources for the Writer in You Poets and Writers. 90 Broad Street, New York, N.Y. 10004. (212) 226-3586. www.pw.org This site includes literary and small press databases, literary...

Inspiration Corner

The Guest House This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your...

Calling Upon The Muse

  What is the function of “the muse”?  Is it to amuse, confuse, use, or abuse?  Or perhaps to discover what might be true or new?  The word muse is implicit in words like “museum” (a house of knowledge), “music” and to “muse” or to ponder.   Historically,...

Hope

Definition: to cherish the outcome of desire’s good. — The Web’s Brainy Dictionary Can we really define hope? Theologists and poets through the centuries have tried. Perhaps we should accept Emily Dickinson’s enduring abstraction: Hope is the thing with feathers...

When Heart Speaks … Heart Listens

Dear Friends, Voice is at the heart of our work and relationships. I have created two unique learning opportunities of spoken word for you: Write Your Way to Forgiveness and Peace An online seminar of poems, stories, and writing exercises exploring anger and...

What Perishes Is Not Always Lost

What Perishes Is Not Always Lost Winter As a Time of Survival and Resilience    In her book Housekeeping, Marilynn Robinson writes of the life of perished things: I have seen two of the apple trees in my grandmother’s orchard die where they stood. One spring there...