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		<title>A Need to Confess?: Writing About the Healthcare Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
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The 2010 Quandaries in Health Care Conference (hosted by the University of Colorado as Aspen&#39;s Center for Bioethics and Humanities) is titled &#34;A Need to Confess?: Writing About the Healthcare Experience,&#8221; and it seems like it may very well be of interest to TLA folk. &#160;It happens&#160;Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 2010 in Aspen, &#160;so if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One of the Most Powerful Pieces of Writing About Parenting, and Living with Courage &amp; Heart: &#8220;Finding Your Voice&#8221; Blog</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just wanted to recommend Jennifer Lawler&#39;s great blog, Particularly amazing is her essay, &#34;For Jessica,&#34; which is simply the most powerful thing I&#39;ve ever read about being a parent, loving another person, cultivating courage in the face of the impossible, and what love is truly about.
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July 19th, 2010 
A couple of weeks ago, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lauryn Hill Interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the founding voices of Hip Hop, an astonishing songwriter and singer, and a wise voice, Lauryn Hill gives a rare interview on NPR. Hill has a lot to say to any of us who care about the spoken and sung word, and she shares her message with unflinching eloquence in her performances and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing as a Transformative Practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
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Check out Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg&#39;s essay, &#34;The Invisible Friend of the Page: Writing as a Transformative Practice&#34; at the website for The Spirit of a Woman, which features stories to empower and inspire women, men, all of us! Here&#39;s the first paragraph:
When I was a child, I didn&#8217;t have any human friends. It wasn&#8217;t that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Therapy International</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
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In an exciting piece of news from the poetry therapy front, TLA Network Council Member Sherry Reiter shares that she has been invited to the 2010 &#34;Conference on Humanities Therapy,&#34; sponsored by Kangwon National University in Chuncheon, Gangwon-do province, South Korea.&#160;
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		<title>Check Out &#8220;A Wing and a Page&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
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For more on the writing life, visit A Wing and a Page, a blog put out by a group of writers in Lawrence, Kansas, including novelist Lucia Orth, free-lance writer Susan Kraus, travel writer Beth Reiber, poets and writers Denise Low and Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, author Pam Grout, writer and web developer Mary Howe, and blogger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inkwell Seeks Submissions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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The National Alliance on Mental Illness in Howard County publishes a Creative Journal twice a year, and has recently released its Spring 2010 issue, which can be found here. &#160;What&#39;s more, they are looking for submission for Inkwell for the Fall of 2010.
Submissions should focus on issues related to mental illness and health, such as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mary Oliver-isms</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 22:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Caryn Miriam-Goldberg who offers us this piece from her own blog.&#160;

A few weeks ago, I had the joy of hearing Mary Oliver read, talk about poetry and life, and simply just visit with some of us. I found her to be exactly like her poetry: clear, precise, kind but unwilling to suffer fools, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kairos and Narrative Facilitation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 19:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
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We&#39;re always looking to find innovative and gripping examples of TLA in action, and&#160;Stephanie Sandmeyer in Portland, OR is doing exactly that. &#160;Working with families to create audio snapshots and oral histories, Stephanie works to make sure wisdom isn&#39;t lost in the hustle and bustle of contemporary life. &#160;She employs what she calls &#34;narrative facilitation,&#34; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cascadia Arts and Healing Center</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 19:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Callid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We recently heard from&#160;Brian Moore, who shared about the Cascadia Arts and Healing Center which he is developing to explore the connections between the expressive arts and deep ecology. Brian also facilitates Poetic Pathways and Journal to Wholeness at the Pathways Learning Center, in Eugene, OR, and leads developmental writing groups at the University District, [...]]]></description>
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