Shift your feelings… Shift your heart… ShiftPoetry™
Prompt driven writing in community to improve your life.
New from ShiftPoetry Press
A platform for independent thinkers in poetry, prose and graphics.
BUT FOR NOW – UPCOMING WORKSHOP
ANNOUNCING THE FIRST SHIFTPOETRY(tm) SESSION
OF FALL, 2024
IN KERN/LIGETI’S NEW DWELLING AND CENTER
WHEN – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH, 2024
TIME – 3-5pm EST
(1-3 Pacific time and check other time zones)
WHERE –
IN PERSON
AT 68 CONNELLY DRIVE
STAATSBURG, NEW YORK 12580
IN THE HUDSON VALLEY
15 minutes from Poughkeepsie or Rhinecliff train stations
Omega institute, Vassar College and Bard College adjacent
ALSO ON ZOOM – limited space in person and on line
To Book – text Ligeti at 310 800 0440
Further details to follow such as driving and parking instructions
(lots of driveway and street spaces) and zoom link
ShiftPoetry™ was born more than half a dozen years ago based on Howard Kern’s ability to “write himself from dark to light”. He got Barbara Ligeti through the back to back deaths of her parents and other life impediments and they co-created this way of writing without rules (a viable definition of poetry) to shift to a better place. Ligeti created safe space meditating, Kern created prompts, and intimate groups wrote in 10 minute sprints and in real time shared their writing out loud with their fellow ShiftPoets. All would say “thank you” and move to the next person. The result was always releasing, soothing, even revelatory.
The team first presented near Northampton, Massachusetts, hosted by Gail and Murray Bruce – then they migrated to the Hudson Valley where photographer Travis Keyes created the image above – which has been used throughout the world – from Takapuna, New Zealand to Hydra, Greece – to attract workshops large and small – diverse and special interest (caregivers, LGBTQ+ communities, new moms, business owners in transition, and so on).
CLICK HERE, and please scroll down to find Howard and Barbara’s episode — “The Silent Killer – Episode 8″
New Release
Available for Sale
SITWE JOSEPH FIGHTS COVID
by Twesigya Jackson Kaguri
Sitwe Joseph – a nine year old AIDS orphan, a child of pandemic culture, is not phased by lingering Covid-19. Instead he educates his friends, family, and community, as to how to deal with this latest rampant potentially uncontrollable virus.
$20 plus shipping and handling
Jackson Kaguri, creator of what started out in affect as AIDS Orphanage Nyaka in his native Uganda, mines his younger self, mixed with youngsters his organization is helping to thrive – and a young voice emerges that is warm, informative, positive, aspirational, and life affirming. Sitwe Joseph, a great storyteller, runs with friends, most notable a little girl his age named Patience Mariza, creating a world that is book series worthy and dare we say the substance of a powerful colorful educational program and television series in the tradition of Dora the Explorer.
Go to www.Nyakaglobal.org for more information on this beautiful organization and creator Twesigye Jackson Kaguri.
To order call or text (310) 800-0440 or email barbaraligeti@mac.com and write in subject line “ShiftPoetry book order.”
On Sale Now
EMERGENCE – A WOMAN’S LIFE THROUGH POETRY AND MOTION
by Susan Cambigue Tracey
$20 plus shipping and handling
Actress, Blythe Danner, says Emergence is “a brilliant lesson in living life with creativity and joy. Susan is a standard bearer for women of all ages.
Emergence – A Woman’s Life through Poetry and Motion is a graphic memoir that tells the author’s life story from her early years into her 80s. Poems range from charming ditties about a beloved rag doll and the skillset for a trapeze artist, to sad stories of the death of a child, and the author’s own cancer.Through colorful and compelling photographs, the reader is treated to a bit of Americana that gets lost in this age of technology. You won’t find Digital Nomads, but you will encounter generations of people living their lives in joy and creativity.
To order call or text (310) 800-0440 or email barbaraligeti@mac.com and write in subject line “ShiftPoetry book order.”
On Sale Now
POETRY WITHOUT PANTS:
WRITTEN WHEN NOBODY’S LOOKING
Edited by Barbara Ligeti &
Howard Kern
$20 plus shipping and handling
Poetry Without Pants: Written When Nobody’s Looking is the second volume in an evolving series of books created by ShiftPoetry(TM), a program designed to use freewheeling writing (poetry in the broadest sense aka writing without rules) to get to a better place in life. ShiftPoetry(TM) is bibliotherapy – using words to heal, to understand problems, to find solutions. Journaling and memoir writing are forms of bibliotherapy but ShiftPoetry(TM) is faster, more spirited, encourages group participation, allows for deep self-awareness but it is also gratifying and at times even lighthearted – and fun.
To order call or text (310) 800-0440 or email barbaraligeti@mac.com and write in subject line “ShiftPoetry book order.”
To order call or text (310) 800-0440 or email barbaraligeti@mac.com and write in subject line “ShiftPoetry book order.”
LIMITED TIME OFFER –
Poetry Without Pants and ShiftPoetry in the Time of Covid-19
$30 together (a $40 Value) plus shipping and handling
To order call or text (310) 800-0440 or email barbaraligeti@mac.com and write in subject line “ShiftPoetry book order.”
SHIFTPOETRY WORKSHOPS
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