{"id":255,"date":"2011-01-28T00:00:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T06:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/paganswithdisabilities\/?p=255"},"modified":"2016-05-31T11:52:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T16:52:02","slug":"6th-annual-brigid-poetry-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paganswithdisabilities\/2011\/01\/6th-annual-brigid-poetry-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"6th Annual Brigid Poetry Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Reading and writing poetry can be a healing process. So healing and poetry fit nicely into the Goddess Brigid\u2019s hands. Brigid is honored each Imbolc with a poetry festival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is that time of year again, when bloggers around the world post a favorite poem in honor of Brigid, the Irish goddess and patron saint of smithcraft, poetry, and healing. Brigid\u2019s feast day is February 1st, so between now and then is the perfect time to publish a poem to celebrate.\u201d  Anne Hill at Blog o\u2019 Gnosis <a href=\"http:\/\/gnosiscafe.com\/gcblog\/2011\/01\/25\/6th-annual-brigid-poetry-festival\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">gnosiscafe.com\/gcblog\/2011\/01\/25\/6th-annual-brigid-poetry-festival\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Post your poem link or the full poem at the Brigid Poetry Festival 2011 FaceBook community page. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Brigid-Poetry-Festival-2011\/124403944294363\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.facebook.com\/pages\/Brigid-Poetry-Festival-2011\/124403944294363<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Institute of Poetic Medicine is a non-profit organization that offers \u201cpublic workshops, retreats and professional programs with John Fox, Certified Poetry Therapist, and by others, for groups and individuals in therapeutic, healing, medical, teaching and pastoral professions, as well as for individuals living with life altering illnesses.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/poeticmedicine.org\/about.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">poeticmedicine.org\/about.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Fox and the Shade Arts in Medicine program is featured in the PBS Documentary \u201cHealing Words: Poetry &amp; Medicine\u201d.<\/p>\n<ul>\u201cFilmed at a large teaching hospital in Florida, Healing Words: Poetry &amp; Medicine tells the stories of patients whose lives have been dramatically changed by the incorporation of poetry into their recovery process.  At a time when Americans have grown cynical about health-care \u2026  this film affirms that poetry and art can build understanding and compassion between doctor and patient and help facilitate healing among the most critically ill.\u201d\n<p>\u201cSince 1990, the Arts in Medicine (AIM) program at Shands Hospital at the University of Florida has used arts therapy to help patients and their families deal with the sorrows, losses and unexpected joys that accompany illness and recovery. As part of the worldwide arts therapy movement, AIM supports therapy in the form of dance, music, drama, visual arts and creative writing.\u201d  &lt;a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/healingwords\/\"www.pbs.org\/healingwords\/<\/p><\/ul>\n<p>Visit the Shades Arts in Medicine program at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shands.org\/aim\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.shands.org\/aim\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Take a moment to share in the Brigid Poetry Festival by posting your own poem or a favorite author.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p>How happy is the little stone<br>\nThat rambles in the road alone,<br>\nAnd doesn\u2019t care about careers,<br>\nAnd exigencies never fears;<br>\nWhose coat of elemental brown<br>\nA passing universe put on;<br>\nAnd independent as the sun,<br>\nAssociates or glows alone,<br>\nFulfilling absolute decree<br>\nIn casual simplicity. \u2013 Emily Dickinson<\/p><\/ul>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading and writing poetry can be a healing process. 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