When you are not fed love on a silver spoon, you learn to lick it off knives,” is a provocative line written by poet Lauren Eden in her 2018 book “Lioness Awakens.” For Maya Picard, it also lit a ...

The event is organized by The Domestic Violence Shelter ... of teen dating violence through the creative mediums of art and poetry," the news release reads. To participate, teens must complete ...

the founder of a shelter for survivors of domestic violence, and even politicians — to read poems that showed how meaningful poetry has been in their lives. Then I invited more than 30 published ...