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 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 | Jul 30, 2024 | Art Saves Lives, Blog
In preparation for this essay, I looked through my collection of half-finished journals. In the neon-colored “Ballerina Bunnies” Lisa Frank notebook that haphazardly documents my teenage life, I found this entry from 1996: I CAN’T SLEEP. Why has Hypnos condemned me? ...
by Rob Haney | Sep 7, 2023 | Blog, Events
A special writing workshop with Sunu P. Chandy benefiting Community Building Art Works programs for Veterans, Service Members, Military Families, and Healthcare Workers. Creating Joyful Community with poet Sunu P. Chandy UPDATED WITH NEW WORKSHOP DATE: Now on...
