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May 10 min read

Exploring Epiphany Through Poetry and Poem-Making | Sponsored by Lakeside Chautauqua

A flyer for "Exploring Epiphany Through Poetry and Poem-Making (Sponsored by Lakeside Chautauqua)" It reads: "Exploring Epiphany Through Poetry and Poem-Making with John Fox, Practitioner of Poetic Medicine July 31 & August 1 10am-12pm / 2-4pm Drackett Hall Cost: $50 / four sessions For more about lakeside Chautauqua: www.lakesideohio.com For more about Exploring Epiphany: email info@poeticmedicine.org This moment of surprising yourself with your own words or of being surprised by the poems of others is at the heart of poetry as epiphany. This experience of creative insight helps you to recognize in yourself a deeper, more resonant voice, that has been discouraged, hidden away, perhaps is yet to be discovered or rediscovered! Please join us as we explore the breadth and depth of "epiphany" which comes from the Greek "epiphaneia," meaning "appearance" or "manifestation." It refers to revelations given by the gods. Questions that are part of our exploration: Could letting go of self-judgment deepen my practice of listening to what Spirit wants me to discover? Am I open to beauty in all of its manifestations? "Milkweed" by James Wright: While I stood here, in the open, lost in myself, / I must have looked a long time / Down the corn rows, beyond grass, / The small house, / White walls, animals lumbering toward the barn. / I look down now. It is all changed. / Whatever it was I lost, whatever I wept for / Was wild, a gentle thing, the small dark eyes / Loving me in secret. / It is here. At the touch of my hand, The air fills with delicate creatures / From the other world. A quote from Barbara Brown Taylor, author of "An Altar in the World" and "Learning to Walk in the Dark": "Most days I feel bombarded by too many words. Then I talk to John and realize that poetry really is the cure. When we stop jabbering long enough to listen to what is going on around, among, and inside us--and we have someone to help us put that into the fewest, truest words available to us--the air clears and the aliveness flows through all the spaces in between." | John Fox, PPM, is a poet and Practitioner of Poetic Medicine. He is author of "Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem Making" and "Finding What You Didn't Lost: Expressing Your Truth and Creativity Through Poem-Making". His work is featured in the PBS documentary, "Healing Words: Poetry and Medicine". John is President of The Institute for Poetic Medicine, a nonprofit he founded in 2005. IPM brings poetic medicine to communities throughout the United States and internationally."

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