Thought for the Day

. . . This moment of surprising yourself with your own words

[. . .] is at the heart of poetry as healer. 

Surprise is a kind of revelation, 

resurrection and rebirth — a creative, joyful,

luminous, physical experience of being disinterred from limitation.*

~ John Fox, Poetry Therapist

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* John Fox, Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making (New York: Putnam, 1997), p. 3. Fox also is the author of Finding What You Didn't Lose: Expressing Your Truth and Creativity Through Poem-Making (Tarcher, 1995).

Creative "Righting" Center (Brooklyn, New York)

The National Association for Poetry Therapy (Port Washington, New York)