It is with great pleasure that we announce the winner(s) of the "Conversations Between a Psychologist and a Poet” 2015 Poetry Contest, sponsored by Depth Psychology Alliance, and judged by Brian Michael Tracy and Robert Romanyshyn. This contest was offered in conjunction with the 3-part webinar series of the same name that took place via Depth Psychology Alliance in April, hosted by Brian, Robert, and Bonnie Bright.
Submissions were accepted during the month of April. The winner received a signed copy of Robert Romanyshyns' book, Leaning Toward the Poet, plus a signed CD of Brian's poetry & music, Blackbird Ballads. The three winning entries will also be published in the Spring/Summer issue of Depth Insights scholarly eZine, due out later this month.
Congratulations to the poets, and huge thanks to everyone who submitted!
WINNER
Remembering "No Place for You, My Love” While Swimming
By Mary Pierce Brosmer
HONORABLE MENTION
Doo-Lalley Home
By Roz Bound
Beyond what had been…
By Bonnie Pfeiffer
BIOGRAPHIES
Mary Pierce Brosmer is a poet, transformative educator and a whole systems thinker, Founder of Women Writing for (a) Change which has affiliate sites in five cities. Mary hosted Writing for Change on PBS affiliate, WVXU, from 1998-2005. Mary was co-founder of Inside/Outside: a Prison Arts Program.
Mary is a published poet and author of Women Writing for (a) Change: A Guide for Creative Transformation (Notre Dame: Sorin Press, 2009).
In Consulting for (a) Change, Mary brings the art of writing and the
practices of community to the work of organizational well-being and social healing in business, political, medical and educational settings.
Mary was a TEDx speaker in 2010, her topic: "Found: the Holy Grail of Organizational Wholeness"
Roz Bound is a writer and a healer living in Prince Edward County, Canada, where she has facilitated monthly Open Floor gatherings for local writers since 2001, offers writing workshops in her island home, and creates rituals that celebrate the wheel of the year, stressing the vital importance of myth, healing, and creativity.
Roz earned an MFA in Creative Writing at Goddard College in Vermont in 2002, and is currently working towards a D.Min in Wisdom Spiritualities with the Wisdom School of Graduate Studies, writing her Doctoral dissertation on aging consciously. She was a teacher of both adults and children, and lived and worked in the Caribbean and South America.
Roz’s published works include a poetry collection, Spirit of Lyme, (2003) (written during a year’s retreat by the sea in England after she retired from Seneca College), and her second book, The Fireman’s Child (2012). Her poems and prose have been published in books and magazines in Canada.
Bonnie Pfeiffer is a Voice Dialogue Teacher/Facilitator, Dream Pattern Analyst, and SoulCollage© Facilitator, in addition to being a Lover of Poetry.
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