Schedule of Events
Highland Park, Illinois
All poets are welcome to participate - having 60035 as your zip code is not a requirement
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Poetry Today
June 2009 - "The Healing Power of Poetry"
Mondays, Wednesdays & Sundays
2:00 p.m.
Local Cable Channel 10
Join host Sue Roupp and her guests Anne Rossen and Margaret Dubay Mikus as they discuss the healing power of poetry in this 30-minute program. Anne Rossen, a Highland Park psychotherapist, Kaleidoscope LifeWorks, LLC, uses poetry writing and reading as well as journal writing to help people heal from various problems that they have. Anne also teaches a class in the Highland Park High School, Continuing Education Department on the healing power of writing and poetry. Margaret Dubay Mikus, Ph.D., [www.fullblooming.com] has survived multiple sclerosis (she no longer has it), breast cancer and much more. She credits exploring poetry writing and reading with a part of her recovery. Her CD is called "Full Blooming: Selections from a Poetry Journal", her first book is called "As Easy as Breathing: Reclaiming Power for Healing and Transformation- Poems, Letters and Inner Listening" and her new books is "Letting Go and New Beginnings: poems and photographs".
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Poetry Open-Mic
Friday, July 10, 2009 - New Date!
8:00 p.m.
Borders Books & Music
595 Central Avenue, 2nd Floor
Cost: FREE
Dare to share at the Poetry Open-Mic. Come listen or come read - both poets and patrons are invited. Poets are welcome to read up to 6 poems. Charles Schwartz hosts.
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Poet's Attic Writers' Workshops
This ongoing program provides a nurturing setting for both beginning and experienced writers, a chance to critique one another's work and to engage in lively discussion about writers and writing.
Leader Wendy Anderson is a professional writer and published poet who has taught at graduate level of Northwestern University's journalism school.
For more information contact Wendy at (847) 432-3271 or email writersattic@comcast.net.
While this program was not created by Highland Park Poetry, we are pleased to promote this opportunity to the writers in the community.
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