Fw: Writing the Body

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Our member Rachel Neve-Midbar writes:

Dear Poets,

I just wanted to drop a quick note to tell you that I will be teaching poetry of the deep body this month at Ritualwell. 

This will be a generative workshop where we will tackle strategies to take our stories out of where they are hidden in our bodies and bring them to the page.

Poetry universalizes the human experience, the experience of having a body—a body that holds our psychic experience even more deeply and better than our minds do. Mining the poetry of the body happens through the bravery of those who have written these poems. Deep body poetry is the poetry of the disabled body, the queer & trans body and the menstruating body. Its the poetry where no metaphor, simile or nuance stands between the reader and the subject; where the body is open and ready to speak. Join us as we read the lyric emotional truths of other poets, allowing our minds and hearts to awaken to begin to ask our body to reveal its secrets.

The workshop will start on July 10th and will run for 4 consecutive weeks. All sessions will be recorded and the class can be taken asynchronistically. 

Register Today! 

https://ritualwell.org/event/deep-body-poetry/2025-07-10/

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Rachel Neve-Midbar 

www.rachelnevemidbar.com