Poemgrown

Poemgrown is commissioned poetry, written by award-winning poet cin salach. In collaboration with you, your life, your occasion.

02/27/2025

You only need to know how to do one thing to be able to write poetry—tell the truth.💥NOT the factual truth. The human truth. The impossible truth. The truth that gives you chills because every cell of your body is suddenly standing at attention in gratitude for someone finally saying it out loud.💥That truth is why poetry is a necessity. Especially now. 💥Especially always.

01/06/2025

Rehearsing in my living room with self-proclaimed musical agitator (and favorite collaborator) Mark Messing!

It’s been a while since I’ve had the good fortune of him making lovely noise while I read poems!

Stop by the Facility Theatre (upstairs) next Sunday, January 12th, at 5 pm to hear a poetry/sound set from us and a musical set from Leny Brun.

1138 N. California Ave. (Wicker Park)
Tickets $20 or pay what you can

PS. Odin won’t be there, but he definitely approves of what’s happening in his house right now.

01/01/2025

I’ve been visualizing living even more into poetry in 2025….

What does that mean?

Spotlighting the amazing women who split the world open with me...offering favorite writing prompts...favorite poems...and shining a light on the hard and gorgeous truth that only poetry knows how to speak.

Do you follow me on Instagram?

If not, please follow and invite poetry into your life so you can experience its magic healing powers too:)

In gratitude, here’s a brilliant poem by Wendell Berry—poet, farmer, and radical human:

Our Real Work

It may be that when we no longer know what to do
we have come to our real work.
And that when we no longer know which way to go
we have come to our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.
- Wendell Berry

06/24/2024

What can you do TOMORROW to make space for the spiritual and emotional changes that midlife (peri-menopause/menopause) brings?

Join myself and amazing intuitive healer, Emily Blank, for a Wise Woman Workshop to learn why it is expansive AND grounding to honor ourselves at this stage of life.

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Reconnecting to Yourself at Midlife:
How to Make Space for Your Wise Woman to Rise

LIVE via Zoom
Tuesday, June 25 at 7 -8 PM CT
$25

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We will be sharing grounding rituals, guided energy meditation, and deep connection for a community of like-minded women between the ages of 40-65-ish (but we won’t be carding!)

Join us for 1 hour and leave feeling rested, renewed, and with a more conscious sense of this most intuitive time of our lives. Because beyond the hot flashes and weight gain is an abundance of wisdom and intuition—and the world needs both more than ever.

You’ve got the power. Join us and learn how to tap into it!

Here is the link to register. If you can't attend live, still register! We will send you the recording so you don't miss a moment of midlife intuition wisdom:)

https://www.emilyblank.com/reconnect-midlife

05/17/2024

I just had the best Friday morning.

First, I locked my keys, purse, phone, and gym bag in the car at the health club where I was going to swim.

Then, I fought with my mind and ego as they judged me for being “spacey and careless” and "look, now I won’t get my swim in!"

Then, I used the phone at the gym and the woman working at the desk was SO helpful (thank you .)

Then I called AAA (yeah!) and was told by the very nice woman that it could be up to an hour before someone got there.

Then I sat on a bench think “what am I going to do for an hour? I don’t even have my phone!” and felt the extreme tightness of anxiety about not doing what I was “supposed” to be doing.

Then I rescheduled my lap time for later this afternoon.

Then I noticed the beautiful day, and the trees and thought, hmmmm, maybe I could meditate.

Then I realized the woman at the desk had given me an entire stack of little pieces of paper + a pen and I thought, “Oh, I could write!”

Then I laughed at the measures the universe took to get me to stop and write for an hour.

Then I meditated and wrote poems for an hour and had a GREAT time.

Then Nicole (pictured above), the AAA goddess () showed up and unlocked my car with grace and ease.

😄

01/19/2024

Most of the time these days, I walk around muffling a scream.

The world hurts, my heart hurts, my body hurts, my SOUL hurts, and I mostly feel powerless to stop the hurting.

Then I sit in a circle with women, light a candle, and write. And something shifts.

I remember what I can do: 💥 Tell the truth 💥Witness the truth 💥 Be the truth 💥Protect the truth 💥WRITE the truth

Splitting the World Open is a small, intimate workshop. I purposely keep it to 10 women. Are you one of them?

Email me at [email protected]

Payment plans & alumni discounts are available.

01/02/2024

Goodnight 2023. Thanks for everything you taught me. Which is more love. More Love. More love.

12/26/2023

In the sudden stillness of this day, I crave a forest of silence. A field of midnight. A quiet sky to let all the love, all the grief, and all the gratitude that have filled these past few days bathe me in their new light.

Thank you, Rilke.

Thank you for reminding me of this quote.

04/25/2017

The best thing happened in our SELF. PROCLAIMED workshop on Saturday: Turns out, I wasn’t just in a circle of 10 women, I was in a circle of 10 teachers. So I want to say thank you to all of our participants for giving me permission to hear the small voice inside that wanted me to know a few things…to Lenora for being such an extraordinary co-leader…to “mind body coop” for the generous and inspiring space…and to Light & Pine for the beautiful frames for our words. Woke up today to my Good Morning Manifesto…

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