JAN2025 Calendar

 JAN2025 Calendar

Coming out of the pandemic in January 2021, @wordtoaction hosted a Resolution Revolution to pledge to make some lessons permanent. (link to blog https://cathywittmeyer.com/we-resolve/)   Following up on that, here’s my new concrete poem in the shape of a...
Word-To-Action ‘25 Dates Announced

Word-To-Action ‘25 Dates Announced

The Word -to-Action writing retreat is a one (1) weeklong poetry experience where poets, writers and students have the opportunity to workshop together new or existing work centered around the theme, climate action.  All poets are experienced and may support...
Our Book is Here at Last!!!

Our Book is Here at Last!!!

I found a bunch of big boxes on my doorstep! 500 copies of Eden Is a Backyard: New Climate Poems from Word to Action (Edition Eupalinos) are printed and ready to put in readers’ hands. The paper feels wonderful, the type face is beautiful and the cover art is just...
Negotiating What We All Get Out Of This

Negotiating What We All Get Out Of This

I started my workshop with the Economics, Leadership & Governance masters class at Universidad de Navarra with a premise: every morning starts as a negotiation between your present self and your future self (the past is just a reference point).  I was in the...
My Worlds Hovered Closely in 2023

My Worlds Hovered Closely in 2023

I’d say my worlds collided but that would imply some destruction and there was only growth. In 2023, my professional and writing worlds gently brushed past each other so that they not only overlapped in subject matter, but also people started showing up in both worlds...