Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making - Softcover

Offering readers tools and instruction on how to begin writing poetry as a form of healing, an author shows how powerful the written word can be when used as an outlet for emotional energy. Original. 10,000 first printing.

John Fox, CPT, is a poet, certified poetry therapist, and a lecturer in the Graduate School of Psychology at John F. Kennedy University in Orinda, California. He is the author of two volumes of poetry, My Hand Touches the Sea and When Jewels Sing (audio tape). John also teaches in the California Poets in the Schools Program. He serves as a vice president on the executive board of the National Association of Poetry Therapy and is a recipient of NAPT's Distinguished Service Award.