by Art Saves Lives | Apr 30, 2025 | Art Saves Lives, Blog
Confiding to the impartial, sympathetic page paved the way for me to accept myself and finally reveal to my friends and family who I really am and begin to live my best honest life. I write. I write because I want to write; I write because I need to write. I write...
by Rob Haney | Apr 16, 2025 | Blog, Events, Uncategorized
Join Community Building Art Works to Honor Fallen Service Members This May Throughout the month of May, Community Building Art Works (CBAW) invites you to honor fallen service members as we prepare for our special Memorial Day Creative Sanctuary. This year,...
by Art Saves Lives | Apr 1, 2025 | Art Saves Lives, Blog
Editor's Preface In this hybrid essay, Susan Niemi writes with specificity, clarity, and the clear eye of a survivor who knows how much work it takes to forge a path forward again and again. Studded with lines of her own poetry, this essay is a meditation on...
by Art Saves Lives | Mar 9, 2025 | Art Saves Lives, Blog
I sat cross-legged on a curb in the middle of New Jersey in the middle of the 1970s and wrote a poem about despair. I was fourteen, it was humid and windless, and I was waiting outside my father’s girlfriend’s apartment to go home where my father and I had barricaded...
by Art Saves Lives | Feb 1, 2025 | Art Saves Lives, Blog
Usually, I am one to find the thread of dark humor even in the worst of circumstances. But I found myself at a loss. I had been increasingly depressed and anxious since a confluence of world and family events descended, including family deaths and friends’ severe...
