Boston in April?
I'm considering attending the National Association for Poetry Therapy (NAPT) annual conference in April in Boston.
"For the past 24 years, NAPT members have forged a community of healers and lovers of words and language. We are psychotherapists, counselors, psychologists, social workers, and psychiatrists. We are poets, journal keepers, storytellers, and songwriters. We are teachers, librarians, adult educators, and university professors. We are doctors, nurses, occupational/ recreational therapists; ministers, pastoral counselors, and spiritual directors. We are artists, dancers, dramatists, musicians, and writers.
We work in many settings where people deal with personal and communal pain and the search for growth. As poetry therapists, we use all forms of literature and the language arts, and we are united by our love of the word, and our passion for enhancing the lives of others and ourselves."
This conference holds more creative possibility than an event strictly devoted to music. I'm especially excited about this event because Ekiwah Belendez is one of the keynote speakers. He is a young Mexican poet prodigy with cerebral palsy. I ADORE his poetry and could write numerous songs out of what I've read thus far. Unfortunately, I've had a problem ordering his books. I would love to meet him in person.
Plus, there is a day trip to Walden Pond before the conference. I mean, how cool is that?!??!
Peace,
~meg
"For the past 24 years, NAPT members have forged a community of healers and lovers of words and language. We are psychotherapists, counselors, psychologists, social workers, and psychiatrists. We are poets, journal keepers, storytellers, and songwriters. We are teachers, librarians, adult educators, and university professors. We are doctors, nurses, occupational/ recreational therapists; ministers, pastoral counselors, and spiritual directors. We are artists, dancers, dramatists, musicians, and writers.
We work in many settings where people deal with personal and communal pain and the search for growth. As poetry therapists, we use all forms of literature and the language arts, and we are united by our love of the word, and our passion for enhancing the lives of others and ourselves."
This conference holds more creative possibility than an event strictly devoted to music. I'm especially excited about this event because Ekiwah Belendez is one of the keynote speakers. He is a young Mexican poet prodigy with cerebral palsy. I ADORE his poetry and could write numerous songs out of what I've read thus far. Unfortunately, I've had a problem ordering his books. I would love to meet him in person.
Plus, there is a day trip to Walden Pond before the conference. I mean, how cool is that?!??!
Peace,
~meg
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