Presented by Peter Yaremko
Peter Yaremko, a published author and poet, leads participants in learning how to create their own personal space for feeling better through writing. This day-long program is a stress-free space to focus on poetry and well-being – a little oasis in which to bask in the beauty of healing words and learning to tap into our own inner wellspring of creativity. Topics include: how poetry heals and empowers, de-mystifying poetry, how to write simple poems that ease stress, anxiety and trauma. Participants will write and share poems in a supportive, no-critique environment.
COST | $75, lunch included
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Peter W. Yaremko began his career as a journalist in New York City and went on to head communications for units of two blue-chip multinationals, IBM and Siemens. He then founded and operated for two decades a marketing agency partnering primarily with hi-tech Silicon Valley firms. He’s had a novel published along with four non-fiction books, writes poetry that appears in numerous literary magazines, and has posted a weekly blog for eleven years running. He has taught college writing classes and now volunteers with the American Cancer Society in teaching poetry classes designed to equip cancer patients and caregivers with an additional tool to help them deal with the emotional trauma of the disease. He was married to his college sweetheart for fifty years until her death from breast cancer. He has two daughters, and currently lives across the street from Yale University in New Haven. At various stages of his life, he’s also played roles as a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn, and a king.