Poet turns health care workers’ stories into custom poems

 Celebrating National Poetry Month

Malcolm Marler

Photography: Amanda Chamber

From UAB News, an article by Shannon Thomason tells about an Alabama poet who is joining poetry with the healing arts:

An artist is creating poems after listening to health care staff at the University of Alabama at Birmingham tell stories of their experiences.

Salaam Green, an artist-in-residence with UAB Arts in Medicine, is a certified Listener Poet. Through the Listener Poet program, the poets hold space for people to share whatever is on their minds, which is reflected back to them through a custom poem. A writer and storyteller, Green facilitates writing-to-heal workshops for AIM.

To continue reading about this fascinating project that is taking place during National Poetry Month, go here.