About the Event

Poetry As Portal is a new event series from WholeHeart that we'll host seasonally in the virtual space!

WholeHeart facilitators frequently use meaningful and evocative poetry in their programs and events as portals into deeper listening. Poetry can be a powerful tool to help participants listen to themselves and access new reservoirs of inner knowing as they hold life questions.

This new offering, Poetry As Portal, will highlight some of the poets whose work is among our favorites! Each 90-minute evening will feature:

• 3-4 original poems read aloud by the poet
• A conversation with the poet about their own listening process, as well as some fun background about the pieces they have produced
• Reflection and small-group time with one of the featured poems to spark our own insights
• Community sharing to nourish our personal practices

When: Monday, March 25, 2024 at 7:00-8:30 pm ET

Where: This event is ONLINE ONLY - VIA ZOOM!
(Please register in advance to receive a Zoom link)

Please join us for Poetry As Portal, another tangible way to support one another in creating wholehearted community, as we listen and act toward a more hopeful, just, and relational 2024!

Special Guest

Julie Cadwallader Staub

Julie Cadwallader Staub was born in Minneapolis MN, and grew up with her five sisters beside one of Minnesota's lakes. Her favorite words to hear growing up were, "Now you girls go outside and play." She graduated from Earlham College, a Quaker college in Richmond, Indiana, and earned a Masters in Social Work from Rutgers University. She and her family moved to Vermont in 1992, and she has lived near Burlington ever since. Her poems have been published widely in literary and religious journals, featured on The Writer's Almanac, and included in anthologies, most recently in The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy, as well as Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems by Grayson Press. She was awarded a Vermont Council on the Arts grant for poetry in 2001. Her poem Milk won the 2015 Ruth Stone prize from Hunger Mountain Review. Julie's poems Turning and Communion have been Pushcart Prize nominees. During the spring of 2023, Julie served as Poet in Residence in the St. Croix Watershed Research Station's Pine Needles program. Her first collection of her poems, Face to Face, was published by Cascadia Publishing House in 2010, and Paraclete Press published her second collection, Wing Over Wing, in 2019.

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