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Article -POETRY IN THE TIME OF COVID

My country was calling out for volunteers during this COVID-19 Corona virus crisis and although I was raring to go, I was labelled either too old to volunteer or my blood too low to donate. They told me to check again when my blood gets high. I don’t know when that...

Article – WRITING AS A PORTAL INTO WELLBEING FOR STAFF IN EDUCATION CONTEXTS

Over the past few years, I have been offering ‘Writing for Wellbeing’ workshops for staff at my university, and more recently for a group of secondary school teachers. As a PTP in training, I had to think about the best way to frame the workshops, knowing that ‘poetry...

Article – ERASURE POETRY

This one-day workshop was a collaboration between myself and artist Fenneke Wolters-Sinke. Participants first learned how to use pages from old books to create new poems – a form of found poetry. They were then guided on how to add a visual layer to ‘erase’ the...

ACTIONWEEKEND (AWE) – “BEGIN AGAIN”

NEW FOR 2020, Lila Weisberger, BridgeXngs Poetry Center, is offering a virtual ACTIONWEEKEND (AWE) in association with iaPOETRY, July 25-26, 2020, from 12 - 4 PM EDT, on ZOOM. You are warmly welcomed to this special space where we can come together to write, create,...

BRINGING IN THE LIGHT Creative Retreat Day

FEBRUARY 23, 2020, 10am - 4pm SNOWDONIA, NORTH WALES Come and join us for a nourishing day of Printmaking, Painting and Poetry with Linda Davies, Carole Shearman and Jill Teague. 'Bringing in the Light' will be a day of gentle, guided sessions to celebrate the...