Twenty Ways to Celebrate Poetry Month (Via Zoom)

April 19, 6:30pm-8:00pm (Central Time)

$20 preregistered/prepaid.

Registration Deadline: April 17 (A link will be sent to you one day prior to the event.)

April is National Poetry Month, the perfect month (also Shakespeare’s birthday) for pausing to celebrate the joy, the healing potential, the wisdom of reading, listening to, and creating poetry. Joy Harjo, U.S. Poet Laureate tells us, “Without poetry, we lose our way.” Poetry reaches where other language cannot. It illuminates meaning, fosters gratitude and lights our way. Poetry brings us back to what truly matters, those every day moments of being human we can so easily miss – or discount. Join us for an evening of slipping into the nourishing warmth of poetry, in community. We will read, listen, share, discuss as we celebrate poetry’s extraordinary power to support the soul and foster hope in an uncertain world.

One way to begin is to sign up at Poets.org for a poem-a-day email before we meet in April. Cross off #20 from the list before we begin.

Susan Kimball is a retired high school language arts and writing teacher, with over thirty-five years of teaching experience. She earned both her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin. A journal keeper for over forty years, her journal writing practice has provided unconditional warmth and revelation on her spiritual journey.

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