Apr 10 | Poetry Talk: Healing Through Poetry

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Poetry can help us understand ourselves better, see ourselves in the experience of others, and grapple with the inconsistencies, challenges, and joys of life.

Our poet-in-residence, Harriet Shenkman, and guest poets Elizabeth Burk and B. Fulton Jennes will discuss healing through poetry. We hope you can join the conversation!

About the Poet-in-Residence

Harriet Shenkman earned a PhD from Fordham University. Her poetry has appeared in many publications, including Union, Evening Street Review, Third Wednesday, Jewish Currents, Jewish Magazine, Westchester Review, Oyez Review, The Alexandria Quarterly, Comstock Review, The Berru Poetry Series, Yetzirah, Figtree Press, and The Marbled Sigh. Her poetry collection, Wonder Wheel, is published by Grayson Books.

About the Guest Poets

Elizabeth Burk is a psychologist and a native New Yorker. Her debut full-length poetry book, Unmoored, was published in November 2024 by Texas Review Press. She has three previous collections: Learning to Love Louisiana, Louisiana Purchase, and Duet-Poet & Photographer. Her poems, prose pieces, and reviews have been published in various journals and anthologies including Atlanta Review, Rattle, Southern Poetry Anthology, Louisiana Literature, Passager, Pithead Chapel, One Art, Museum of Americana, Naugatuck River Review, PANK, Westchester Review, and Mom Egg Review.

B. Fulton Jennes is an award-winning poet whose work has appeared widely in literary journals and anthologies including CALYX, Comstock Review, Rust and Moth, SWWIM, and Tupelo Quarterly. In 2022, her poem “Glyphs of a Gentle Going” won the Lascaux Prize; another poem, “Father to Son,” won the 2023 New Millennium Award. Jennes’ collection Blinded Birds received the 2022 International Book Award for a poetry chapbook. FLOWN—an elegy-in-verse to her late sister—was published by Porkbelly Press in 2024. Jennes is poet laureate emerita of Ridgefield, Connecticut, where she directs the Poetry in the Garden summer festival.