Essays or articles that can add depth and research to the emerging field of TLA as an academic discipline and expand the theory behind why or how modes of TLA are effective.
Abstract The Ballerina concrete poem is archetypal, a symbol, one of a series of images. As I created the poems, sorting words like seeds to produce images, often with rhyme and meter, unconscious energy beyond the personal unconscious found a way into the process, and actually became the process. C. G. Jung refers to the Read More …
Abstract Research in the emergent field of expressive writing shows that writing our stories helps us to make sense of our lives. As we write, the brain’s neuroplasticity and circuitry change. As I have witnessed consistently in my Women’s Writing Circles, sharing our personal narratives with others in a safe circle, creates both individual healing, Read More …
So this is the edge then, this shoreline of glass— How every letter contains the sound of its own breaking, its own holiness. What is held as sacred, as truth. How often I have sat right here, on the finest line, inkedalong a wilderness of empty page, and how each word is placed like a Read More …
What does Right Livelihood mean in the context of TLA? How does it relate to finding and staying in conversation with our life’s work while keeping the cupboards and gas tank full as well as caring for our health, art, soul, and community? Laura Packer and Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, between them, have decades of experience. Laura Read More …
