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Today’s Open Circle session was centered around nature poetry and spring, as we finish off May. We discussed poems showing how writers use simple images from nature to communicate emotion and memory. After reading togeth...

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Today’s Open Circle session centered around poetry, imagination, and the natural imagery that poems can create in our minds. We spent part of the afternoon reading and discussing William Carlos Williams’ poem “The Red Wh...

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Today’s session was not only successful and engaging, but also deeply reflective for us. We’ve been running these events for over two months now, and for one of our most frequent attendees, that has meant watching her co...

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At this event, attendees wrote poems based off of Ria Shivam's poem "On Certain Devotions," which will be posted here soon. A few poems were memorable, but this one stuck out to me. Oftentimes, motor skills deteriorate d...

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Today, we did an event on "memory objects," or objects that hold a lot of significance to us. A lot of people tend to forget objects that mattered to them a lot in the past, and we want to help them remember the ties the...

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Today, we focused on the idea of a giving tree, focusing on the poem "The Giving Tree," which we handed out in English and Chinese. While some participants drew things they wished to get from the tree, others drew the tr...

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Our seventh Open Circle Poetry Gathering welcomed 12 attendees for an interactive session centered on “Hope is the thing with feathers” by Emily Dickinson. After discussing the poem’s language, imagery, and message of en...

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there once was a Kashmiri boy

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thunder runs in my blood like a last name,

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Our fifth Open Circle Poetry Gathering brought together 13 attendees for a session centered on “Here Lies the Collateral” by Ria Shivam, founder of Open Circle. Using the poem’s meditation on rocky roads, sacrifice, and ...

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At our fourth Open Circle Poetry Gathering, 19 community members attended for a session centered on “The Lotus Blooms Anyway” by Ria Shivam. Inspired by the poem’s themes of resilience, cultural memory, and blooming desp...

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Our third Open Circle Poetry Gathering, held at Church of the Epiphany, welcomed 17 attendees and marked a special moment for the series. This session centered on Hope is the Thing with Feathers, and unlike earlier gathe...

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At our second Open Circle Poetry Gathering, 14 people attended for a thoughtful hour of poetry, discussion, and drawing. This session was centered on “A Girl” by Ezra Pound, a poem that opens up questions of youth, ident...

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Our first Open Circle Poetry Gathering brought together 11 attendees for a morning of poetry, reflection, and art. Centered on “The Bee” by Paul Laurence Dunbar, the session invited participants to think about movement, ...

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This March 1st, we ran an extremely successful event based on the poem "The Bee" By R.K.M.. Attendees had an extremely fun time doing watercolor based on the poem, after analyzing some of the key symbols of the work. Nea...

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