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27 Powers welcomes @mark_nepo - poet, teacher, sto

27 Powers welcomes @mark_nepo - poet, teacher, storyteller and author of 23 books including the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Book of Awakening, and the soon to be published, The Half Life of Angels.

Anyone who has worked with me knows that I don’t see writing as simply an exercise in storytelling, but as a chance to navigate with words, our journey as people who mean to become conscious and aware of our precious time here.

Words and stories carry energy. Writing is a kind of medicine work.

That’s just one of the reasons I am so drawn to Mark Nepo, whose poems and stories speak to the temporality of life; the having, the holding and the surrendering.

During the call with Mark, we will talk about:

➡ Words as breadcrumbs that become a path toward deeper understanding – on the page and off.
➡ How we take the moments of our lives that speak to us, and turn them into stories that can shine a light, becoming lessons and ways of knowing ourselves.
➡ How transparency and authenticity on the page become medicine for the writer and the reader, and why the world needs more of that.
➡ How having cancer woke Mark up to what was at stake in his life and how it impacted his writing.
➡ What Mark means when he says he’s “living a making,” instead of “making a living.”

Save your spot here or via link in bio! https://27powers.org/mark-nepo/

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Registration is open for our next round of small g

Registration is open for our next round of small group online classes!

If you're interested in Wild Writing, this is the perfect time to join us. You don't need big writing experience or to call yourself a writer. Honestly, if it has occurred to you to write at all in your life, this is a wonderful time to consider Wild Writing.

I will be teaching for this 10-week round of classes beginning the first week of April and am also bringing on four very fine Wild Writing teachers, women I have had the pleasure to train in the last few years and who I have every confidence in.

If you've been curious about what it would be like to be in a small, devoted group of Wild Writers who not only write together every week, but who read their work aloud to one another, please consider registering for one of these classes. These women are beautiful writers and teachers who have been studying with me for several years, people I trust and love writing with.

Wild Writing is a loose and intuitive writing practice where we use poetry as writing prompts and write as fast as we can, pen never leaving the page for 15 minutes at a time. We write quickly to get past the perfectionist and the part of our brain that likes to do things well. One of the gifts of Wild Writing is learning to create beautiful, intuitive, instinctual, more honest, and less performative pieces. Wild Writing is a practice that not only makes for writing real and true stories about our lives but also influences how we walk in the world. I have seen lives change with Wild Writing.

We'll start the first week of April!

Details + registration for all classes via link in bio.

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Loved chatting with @saraavantstover on her Truth,

Loved chatting with @saraavantstover on her Truth, Love & Beauty Podcast!

What would it look and sound like for you to be more honest on the page– and in your life? How can writing help you to bypass your Inner Critic and access more of your essence?

These are some of the questions we talk about.

In today's conversation, I talk you through how Wild Writing can help us to live more real, connected lives, but I also lead you through a practice so we can experience it together here in real time.

So grab a notebook and a pen, and enjoy our conversation!

Listen in via link in bio!

ON THE BLOG: For My Mother Who Means To Feel Every

ON THE BLOG: For My Mother Who Means To Feel Everything

Read + listen to more via link in bio.

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27 Powers welcomes @maggiesmithpoet , beloved poet

27 Powers welcomes @maggiesmithpoet , beloved poet, and author of the soon to be published memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful.

It’s always thrilling when a writer I love confesses that some of their best work started out as messy pieces of writing that had no sense of direction. It debunks the fantasy I sometimes have that great writers sit down and turn straw into gold in one fell swoop.

That’s why I’m so excited to bring Maggie Smith into our classroom to not only talk about what to do with what she calls brain vomit – these wonderfully messy pieces we write – but then to ask ourselves how to zero in on what these pieces could possibly become.

Does the piece want to be a poem? An essay? A book?

In this conversation with Maggie, we’ll cover:

➡️ How to understand what you have on those pages, and what it wants to become
➡️ How to take our raw, uncensored work, and begin shaping and finding the right container for it to express itself in.
➡️ How important trial and error is when creating.
➡️ How Maggie took the tools of poetry into her memoir.
➡️ The nerve it takes to create from nothing and keep going.
➡️ The nuts and bolts of where to begin and where to go from there.

You will walk away with ideas for your own messy, beautiful writing so that the greater truth and beauty at the center of your work can come to life.

I hope you’ll join us! Link in bio to save your seat.

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