Saying Yes to a Piggy-No-No
clichés are clichés for a reason! They are words or expressions that are small packets of syllables that contain time-tested truths. Often they help describe otherwise hard-to-pin-down concepts. As with core human experiences like beauty, joy, love, and great sorrow, it’s hard to put words to how poetry and dreams move us.
Summer S’News from Tzivia … On becoming a literary grandmother
Nautilus II is 20 years old! That’s a big number! Think of it: If Nautilus II were a person, she’d likely have graduated from The Care Center (TCC), and maybe she would have earned her Associate’s Degree by now. She might well have a toddler or a pre-schooler of her own. Thinking about this makes me, as the founder of Nautilus II, feel as though I am becoming a literary grandmother!
The Narrow Road
Poetry is the language I’m breathing and dreaming in these days—both because it’s my refuge and because I’m now immersed in a year-long poetry course.
One Poem in Thirty
Each day when I sat down to write, I was aware that I was picking up, in some ways, where my mother had left off. Here’s a poem I wrote to honor all that is left unfinished in each life.
How Dreams Helped a Poet Find Her Voice
“Thanks to my training with Tzivia and the Institute for Dream Studies, and with Tzivia’s Dreaming on the Page (DOTP) offerings, I have finally begun in earnest to weave together these two muses. When I write, I honor my dreams and infuse them into my waking world, and when I dream, I open to the fertile field of inner voice and direct revelation.” –Poet Jennie Meyer
A Poet Dreaming: An Interview with Lesléa Newman
The connection between dreams and poetry can be illustrated simply by pulling a book of poetry off a shelf, poet Lesléa Newman says. “Open to the table of contents and you’ll almost always find a poem with the word dream in the title.”
I’m dreaming on the page for a cause
Some people ride bicycles from one end of the state to the other to raise money for a good cause. Others walk for miles or run marathons. I’ll be writing a poem a day for 30 days to benefit immigrants in my community.
Think you’re not a poet? Think dreams aren’t important? Think again.
For me, it’s not about titles: Poet. Writer. Dreamworker. It’s about a way of looking at the world – rather than claiming a field of expertise or even excellence.
How Mary Oliver Helped Me Live My One Wild and Precious Life
Can a poem change your life? In a word: Yes. I’d been working as a reporter at a small-town newspaper when I heard Mary Oliver read her poetry at Smith College. At the time I’d …
Writing Retreat Day 1: Exiled from the City of Poems
“But poetry — which awakens our senses, frees us from the tyranny of literal meaning and assures us of the credible reality of emotional truth — puts us in touch with something bigger than language, …