A Wisdom Body Collective Series on Mothering & Winter Traditions — On the first day of the new year, I woke in the morning before anyone else, which is a rare occurrence, as I am usually the last to fall asleep and the quiet night is a familiar companion. This quiet is different — awaiting movement, anticipating acceleration of the day…

On writing artist statements, A Wisdom Body Series — My writing is an anchor between the internal and external. It navigates the interior for moments of tenderness and poignancy where initial inspiration takes hold and opens to the exterior to map how it will arrive in the world. This practice has always been about discovery for me, for observing…

Developing a tribute poem’s concept — When we first conceptualized More Revolutionary Letter: a Tribute to Diane di Prima, what grasped me most was the open and endless potential within our project. Just as di Prima worked on the project throughout her life, we too could continue to add and expand upon revolutionary letters. In writing…

A Wisdom Body Series on Rejected Works — With our series on rejection, I am thinking of what precisely rejection means to me, and when this particular emotion has impacted me the most as a writer. For many, perhaps, there is a connection of rejection to submitting to literary publications in hopes of seeing their work in print…

a WBC writing invitation series for the Winter Solstice The weight of the year can fall on us within us noticing and putting our tension in check and freeing us for more creative and life energy. Where are you harboring negativity? Write into this space. Feel where it is in the body. Name it, manifest it, destroy it. What is reborn from the ashes? From November 30 until the Winter Solstice on December 21, 2020, Wisdom Body Collective is offering daily writing invitations to inspire your creative work during these darkening days. Join us in our journey and check in every day for each new invitation!

a WBC writing invitation series for the Winter Solstice For today’s invitation, we welcome you to incorporate the above image into ekphrastic writing, writing that is inspired by and written alongside art or image. Allow what arises for you naturally to come forth. You might notice the images or text included, the composition, or colors. For additional guidance, consider: write into the delicate cycle or light and dark and what lie in between.

a WBC writing invitation series for the Winter Solstice On this night of the new moon, I invite you to welcome the shared darkness into your practice. Without the light, we turn inward to ourselves for deepened contemplation. This writing invitation is particularly embodied. To begin, sit in the darkness…

a WBC writing invitation series for the Winter Solstice This prompt is near and dear to my heart, as it is something I incorporate frequently in my own writing about space, time, and memory. What would it mean for all events, all time, all people, all spaces to exist together…

a WBC writing invitation series for the Winter Solstice Create a word spiral. You might write your text in the form of a spiral or consider what it means for a poem or prose to unfold in a spiral shape. How does language flow in and out of itself? How is it delicate wound, tangled and untangled, as it unfolds? From November 30 until the Winter Solstice on December 21, 2020, Wisdom Body Collective is offering daily writing invitations to inspire your creative work during these darkening days. Join us in our journey and check in every day for each new invitation!