writing resources
Books of and About Poetry:
-Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems
-Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What is Sacred by Mark Nepo
-Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression by Mark Nepo
-Sacred Sounds: Magic & Healing Through Words & Music by Ted Andrews
-The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns by Matty Weingast
-Space Between Stones: Poetry and Practices for Connecting with Nature, Spirit, and Creativity by Kai Siedenburg
-A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver
-Devotions by Mary Oliver
-To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings by John O’Donohue
-Words Under Words: Selected Poems by Naomi Shihab Nye
-The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
Books on Writing as a Healing Practice
-Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives by Louise DeSalvo
-Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words by Kim Rosen
-Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
-These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson by Martha Ackmann
-A Poetry Handbook: A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry by Mary Oliver
-Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
-How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice by Pat Schneider
-Writing Alone and With Others by Pat Scheider
-Finding What You Didn’t Lose: Expressing Your Truth and Creativity Through Poem-Making by John Fox
-poemcrazy: freeing your life with words by Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge
-Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making by John Fox
-Wild Words: Rituals, Routines, Rhythms for Braving the Writer’s Path by Nicole Gulotta
-Catching the Light: Why I Write by Joy Harjo
Interviews with Writers I Love
-“Belonging Creates and Undoes Us,”a conversation between poet, Pádraig Ó Tuama and Krista Tippett on the On Being Podcast