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What the World Needs Now: Wellness & Healing through Literary Arts
Saturday, March 26, 2022
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
The literary arts are experiencing more relevance than they have in decades, being more widely regarded as a conduit for healing, a therapeutic modality that benefits mental and physical wellbeing and augments the social and emotional learning of individuals and communities. This panel will feature the work of three nonprofits that employ poetry in therapeutic ways across diverse demographics—from youth in both public schools and nontraditional spaces, to the medically and socially vulnerable.
Participants
Rosemarie Dombrowski is the inaugural poet laureate of Phoenix, Arizona, as well as the founder of rinky dink press, the Revolution (Relaunch), and the therapeutic poetry nonprofit Revisionary Arts. She’s also the recipient of an Arts Hero Award and a 2020 fellowship from the Academy of American Poets.
Sheree L. Greer, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, founded Kitchen Table Literary Arts to showcase and support the work of women writers of color. The author of two novels, Let the Lover Be and A Return to Arms, she is a VONA/VOICES alum, Yaddo Fellow, and Ragdale Fellow.
Justin Rogers is a Black poet from Detroit, Michigan, who shares poems surrounding living and praying as a Black man in America. He explores fantasy through pop culture and is the author of micro-zine Nostalgia as Black Matilda and Black, Matilda.
