Happy New Year, Friends, I'm so happy you've visited me here.
May the new year be full of everything you've prayed for and many unexpected blessings.
Join me in the great fun of a poetic New Year Playshop
Friday, January 2, 2026
12:00 PM-3:30 PM EST
(with two 15-minute breaks built in)
$42
ZOOM
Register Here: CLICK
🌸Want to write poetry?!
🌸Want to understand why and how poetry makes sense?
🌸Want to find yourself in the flow of art that both moves through you and moves you?
✍️Writing poetry is as close to the heart as breathing; it's right there in the same way that your thoughts and personal stories are right there—and sometimes the stories of others.
HOUR ONE: Let's open with a nervous-system-calming-breathing-meditation and then look at gorgeous contemporary poetry. Let’s discuss why poems work in terms of form, voice, imagery, metaphor, tension. 🤩
HOUR TWO: Let's write! Bring a photo image. It will work as a creative doorway. Or bring your SoulCollage® card(s). Images will direct theme and voice; let's see what comes through. 💬🦄
HOUR THREE: Let's share our work aloud. Inspire one other. 💫
Participants will leave with the draft of a new poem. Participants will leave with take-home awe for community, art, surprise.
Get in touch with questions or to say hello👋:
[email protected]
May the new year be full of everything you've prayed for and many unexpected blessings.
Join me in the great fun of a poetic New Year Playshop
Friday, January 2, 2026
12:00 PM-3:30 PM EST
(with two 15-minute breaks built in)
$42
ZOOM
Register Here: CLICK
🌸Want to write poetry?!
🌸Want to understand why and how poetry makes sense?
🌸Want to find yourself in the flow of art that both moves through you and moves you?
✍️Writing poetry is as close to the heart as breathing; it's right there in the same way that your thoughts and personal stories are right there—and sometimes the stories of others.
HOUR ONE: Let's open with a nervous-system-calming-breathing-meditation and then look at gorgeous contemporary poetry. Let’s discuss why poems work in terms of form, voice, imagery, metaphor, tension. 🤩
HOUR TWO: Let's write! Bring a photo image. It will work as a creative doorway. Or bring your SoulCollage® card(s). Images will direct theme and voice; let's see what comes through. 💬🦄
HOUR THREE: Let's share our work aloud. Inspire one other. 💫
Participants will leave with the draft of a new poem. Participants will leave with take-home awe for community, art, surprise.
Get in touch with questions or to say hello👋:
[email protected]
Here's a dreamy poem from my poetry collection, Woe & Awe, published in 2024.
It was also published in Still: The Journal.
PERENNIAL
After Dr. Carl Sagan, for Raven Run Nature Sanctuary, Lexington, KY
Moss fancy tree feet
dressed for a party
July sweet
where fat beads of light
find the forest floor, and me,
meandering, pausing
in cicada surround sound, wild
turkey mumblings, an iridescent green beetle—
this breathing timberland.
Now a red shouldered hawk
takes a solo; somehow
he’s found a microphone in the forest.
In this sanctuary,
creek water and limestone
wave a magic mirror
and the clouds, a slow-moving filmstrip
show me
this is my pale blue dot.
With love at the foot of 2026,
Lisa