Beyond sharing what I'm doing, I'd like to enthusiastically invite you to also participate in the 30in30 National Poetry Month challenge that many writers take on in April. Or to do some part of it -- do a 20/30, a 7/30, a 1/30, whatever works for you. A google will quickly get you to several organizations that provide daily prompts, or you can just do your own thing.

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I know poetry isn't everyone's cup of tea to read or create, but in my humble experience, after years of teaching uninterested students and hosting open mics with first time readers, I'm convinced that everyone can benefit from poeting once in awhile. To be freed of the normal confines of verbal communication is to be gifted with an ability to be far more abstract and more accurate at once, to get closer to giving voice to a truth. Poeting is a way to move emotion through the body, to sometimes even achieve something as miraculous as transmuting suffering into beauty. And if ever there were a time, when such an alchemy could serve us all...seems like it might be now. I’d love to hear what’s on your heart...