Two Views of Healing: Songs of Survival

For Songs of Survival, I am reading two poems, “Peer Counselor,” and “Opossum,” for the celebration of the anniversary of the MeToo movement at Awakenings Gallery in Chicago this coming Thursday, October 18, 2018 (go here for tickets). In…

Tarot Tuesdays: Tarot Journaling to Know Yourself, A Tour Through the Majors

Under which circumstances do you experience pure joy and can you imagine inviting more into your life? How can we make such sweet goals specific and tangible? Tarot provides us with a powerful way to play with symbols in order to understand…

Poetry Basics

Is it true, as Carl Sandburg posits, “Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly?” How, as a poet, do you get yourself airborne? Whether you are simply poetry curious or have been writing poetry for…

Writing Our Angels: Online Writing Class

Have you ever wrestled with angels? Named an angel? Loved or raged in the absence or presence of an angel? Whether you believe in angels or not, you will find them throughout literature, from Blake’s time to our time in poems like “Questions…

Amazon Wisdom Keeper and Spiritual Awakening: An Interview with Loraine Van Tuyl

I’m overjoyed to share an interview with Loraine Van Tuyl, PhD, author of the spiritual memoir, “Amazon Wisdom Keeper: A Psychologist’s Memoir of Spiritual Awakening” (forthcoming from She Writes Press at the end of this month).…

Writing Through Fear: Free Your Butterfly

What story have you kept in the cocoon? What would happen if you wrote it out, just for you? In this dual focus course, we'll consider our heroes, both famous and family, who have inspired us. Using them as inspiration, we'll write our cocooned…