An invitation to a yoga, poetry + kombucha event on 1/26/24 @ 6 pm
at Seva Yoga in the Historic Grist Mill in Yardley, PA
Hi,
It’s me. Corie.
You may not know it but during the lockdown days of Covid I wrote, A Poem for Every Pose. It was an act of faith that after years of dedicating myself almost solely to my family and my community, that I could restart my poetry writing practice and combine it with my new love of yoga (my pandemic thing which has completely changed my life).
I was also a slam poet in the heyday of the 1990’s slam scene in NYC as well as an “occasional poet” hired to scribe and perform at events around the country. But what I loved the most was teaching poetry to young people, college students, and seniors. I did not teach “about” poetry, but how to “be” poetry.
You know when you have one of those moments when everything you have been doing suddenly comes together and you are like, Ohhhh! Now it makes sense.
That was what I experienced when I premiered th…