Mindful Poetry Moments - April 2026
I’m honored to be joining The Well for National Poetry Month this year as a Poetry Facilitator alongside their wonderful founder and director, Stacy Sims for a first ever YP Edition.
This year during April for National Poetry Month, The Well is holding space for Cincinnati-based Young Professionals for an evening of nourishing community and creativity in their Walnut Hills space.
The format is simple. In each session, we meditate, consider a single poem, receive a prompt, write, and then share with the group. Afterward, we invite attendees to remain for a half hour of fellowship.
Poems generated by attendees during this session can be submitted for publication in our 7th edition of the Mindful Poetry Moments anthology!
The Well, a Cincinnati-based, national nonprofit, is offering its seventh year of Mindful Poetry Moments, offering poetry and meditation to youth and adults in schools, social service organizations and in weekly virtual gatherings for free during April in celebration of National Poetry Month 2026. Mindful Poetry Moments was incubated with the national On Being Project in 2019.
Each week in April, participants of all ages receive recordings of creative listening prompts and poems curated around this year’s theme of This Common Home: poems that explore our relationship with the natural world. The four poems selected for this year have been chosen from 24th US Poet Laureate Ada Limón’s You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World anthology.
This year’s curator is chaplain, journalist, and educator Eddie Gonzalez.
In this session...
Poem: “Heliophilia” by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Mindfulness Facilitator: Stacy Sims
Poem Facilitator: Michael Thompson
Come in-person with a pen, paper, and an open heart.
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Thanks
@truestacysims for your friendship and collaboration,
@adalimonwriter for your inspired anthology and continued poetic work,
@romainmaya for the amazing photos, Eddie for his great picks and work with this program,
@aimee_nezhukumatathil for the brilliant poem we get to work from, and
@artswave for support of MPM!
