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NPM23 Blog: 6 Activities to Spark Creative Joy
by Leila-Indira Mohabeer-Ortiz Happy National Poetry Month! April is a month of joy, with the weather getting warmer and the sun shining brighter, the springtime brings forward a multitude of opportunities to get those creative juices flowing. If you find yourself with a creative itch to scratch, but you’re not quite sure how to get…
NPM23 Blog: Pulling Joy Forward by Elizabeth Mudenyo
Easy Joy Rock huntinghands digging past algaeknee deep in water orkeeled over dusting off sandputting rocks in the bucket of our shirtsshining them and showing them offWhat a lucky find.Oh and this turquoise note!This red accent!Good eye, good eye! It cost nothingto be that fortunatetime was elastic never wastedevery minute foundits home Many once removed…
NPM23 Blog: Rewilding Poetry Through Joy by Shannon Webb-Campbell
If you ask me if I made a new year’s resolution I’d tell you no. Such rigid ways often result in the opposite outcome, or at least that’s how it goes for me. I’ll make a resolution only to break the resolution. It’s the rebel within me. I blame the astrological fates. Not only am…
LCP50: Celebrating 50 years
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