Join me as I visit with two veteran poets who are using poetry as a mental health tool.They work out of The Heart's Ease Love and Freedom Center, which is a place to explore heart-centered living.One of my guests, Salaam Green is proudly born and bred in the Black Belt of Alabama. She is the founder and executive director of www.theliteraryhealingarts.com, a 2018 New Economy's Fellow, Deep South Storyteller, Poet and Master Healer. She was:Birmingham's 2016 Poet Laureate for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and a 2018 Tedx Speaker. The other poet, Liz Hildreth, has been writing poems for more than 40 years. She studied poetry at NYU with Robert Bly, Sharon Olds, Allen Ginsberg, and Galway Kinnell. She considers herself a confessional poet and thinks the best poems are raw, honest, weird, and wild. One of her daughters has autism, cerebral palsy, and a seizure disorder. She has written at length about mental illness and has written commissioned poems for people at galleries, museums, and other artistic venues.Tune in to watch or listen to 44 other released episodes Zennurgy is on all podcast platformsAll the merchandise shown and much more is available at www.laughzandlyrics.com/shopWww.laughznlyricsmerch.comSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-zennurgy-podcast/exclusive-content

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