Jack Ridl – HE BRINGS HOME EVERYTHING
A faculty member at the college where I loved to be with students once emailed me the following: “You use too many exclamation points.” What’s the deal with the fear... Read More
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Poetry Heals featured in Aspen University's Nursing Blog
"As a poet and longtime teacher of poetry, Teresa Carson is accustomed to entering difficult rooms. So when she came into a conference room at a New Jersey hospital in... Read More
From Poetry Heals: Joan Seliger Sidney
From Joan Seliger Sidney: This past April, National Poetry Month, on a grant from the New Jersey Humanities Council to CavanKerry Press, I led a Poetry Heals workshop in Newark at the University... Read More
Poetry Heals and CavanKerry in The Alternative Press
“At the beginning it’s difficult because they’re afraid of being wrong and not knowing what a poem means immediately,” says Teresa Carson, Associate Publisher at CKP, of the initial challenges... Read More
Private: Poetry Heals Session at St. Barnabas Medical Center Explores Saying the Unsayable
By Katie Hynes, St. Barnabas Medical Center Lit & Med Volunteer “Poets don’t get calls in the middle of the night,” joked Cat Doty, poet, teacher, and author of Momentum (CavanKerry 2004),... Read More
From Poetry Heals: a poem by Copper Camden Hospital
Teresa Carson at last year’s “Poetry Heals”workshop at Copper Camden This April and May, CavanKerry Press and the New Jersey Council for the Humanities are again co-sponsoring a series of “Poetry Heals” workshops for healthcare professionals.... Read More
Joan Seliger Sidney reflects on Poetry Heals Workshop
You may remember Teresa Carson’s posting last month, reflecting on the Poetry Heals workshop. Here is more feedback from our workshop leader, Joan Seliger Sidney. Participants at Cooper Workshop Although only... Read More
CKP and New Jersey Council for the Humanities co-sponsored "Poetry Heals" workshops in April
Teresa Carson at Poetry Heals When Mary Rizzo, Associate Director of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, solicited the hospitals that participate in the “Literature & Medicine: Humanities at... Read More
Joan Cusack Handler Reflects on CKP’s first Poetry Heals Workshop
I’m sitting in the vestibule of Morristown Medical Center guarding our bags while Donna, CKP administrator, gets the car. God Bless Donna! We’re coming from CavanKerry’s first Poetry Heals Writing Workshop which... Read More