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A Place of Healing: Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Medicinal Plants of the Adirondacks

A Place of Healing: Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Medicinal Plants of the Adirondacks

"If we value the medicine the land offers us so generously, we must become medicine for the land."

By Robin Wall Kimmerer | June 2, 2025

Patchworks of Memory: Quilting Remembrance and Healing

Patchworks of Memory: Quilting Remembrance and Healing

Lisa Gail Collins on the Creative Traditions of a Black Farming Community in Alabama

By Lisa Gail Collins | March 5, 2025

Between Agency and Fate: Towards a New Poetics of Illness and Healing

Between Agency and Fate: Towards a New Poetics of Illness and Healing

Eleni Stecopoulos: “To be the hero or victim of one’s story is to deny the lines of power that cross and enervate our bodies.”

By Eleni Stecopoulos | October 18, 2024

Duty of Care: Tomas Moniz on Trauma, Healing and Houseplants

Duty of Care: Tomas Moniz on Trauma, Healing and Houseplants

“I discovered something different through the trauma. We learn to grieve by grieving.”

By Tomas Moniz | June 12, 2024

Living the Questions: Lisa C. Krueger on the Shared Foundations of Therapy and Poetry

Living the Questions: Lisa C. Krueger on the Shared Foundations of Therapy and Poetry

"Therapy, like poetry, requires us to embrace mystery."

By Lisa C. Krueger | October 13, 2023

The Geology of Misery: What Philip Larkin and Ted Lasso (and Science) Tell Us About Trauma

The Geology of Misery: What Philip Larkin and Ted Lasso (and Science) Tell Us About Trauma

On Breaking the Cycle of Individual and Collective Dehumanization

By Catherine Buni | September 11, 2023

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Mary Cregan on Doing Whatever It Takes to Deal with Depression

By Mary Cregan | April 8, 2019

After the Storm: On the Artist's Life in Puerto Rico, Post-Maria

After the Storm: On the Artist's Life in Puerto Rico, Post-Maria

"Hurricane Maria was not merely a setback or temporary disaster. The threat was existential."

By Jennifer Acker | September 13, 2018

Poetry Against the Border Wall

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Aracelis Girmay and Emmy Pérez in Conversation

By Aracelis Girmay | July 26, 2017

On Prescribing Poems for the Sick, the Dying, the Grief Stricken

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