FREE WEBINAR
Poetry and Personal Revelation:
How Poetry Guides and Awakens Us
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Join us on Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 7 PM (EST) for an interactive webinar that explores some of the personal potentialities for renewal that poetry holds for all of us.
From Mary Ellen Lough, Haden’s Poet-in-Residence …
Adrienne Rich called poetry “the arts of the possible.” When dominant language creates the categories with which to think, poetry reconnects us to a deeper well of revelation through inner dialogue. In this webinar, we will read a few select poems together in a contemplative spirit, and you will have the chance to respond in writing or conversation. Allowing poetry to guide our dialogue takes us out of our normal modes of thinking and into a much more spacious and restorative conversation.
About the Presenter
Mary Ellen Lough is a poet on the fringes; a writer, homesteader, mother, community organizer, flower grower, and wildcrafts herbs for ritual and ceremony with her business, Appalachian Sacred Smoke.
She teaches wild poetics and deep image work as a revelationary practice as the Poet-in-Residence at The Haden Institute. She has also taught veterans with PTSD under grants, as well as in homeless shelters, substance abuse centers, and peer supported mental health as well as hosting the Farmhouse Poetry Series at her beloved old house and virtually. She has trained with and written for The Institute for Poetic Medicine. Her writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in Poetry, and has been performed by multidisciplinary artists at the MATA Festival in NYC.
Mary Ellen’s newest project is Women Who Speak With Flowers, a partnership that honors and explores folk traditions as a transmission of symbol and story, beginning with folk embroidery in Transylvania. Follow her ongoing work on Substack.
