by Cathy Wittmeyer | Oct 21, 2024 | Actions
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...
by Cathy Wittmeyer | Mar 5, 2024 | Actions
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 Eupolinos) are printed and ready to put in readers’ hands. The paper feels wonderful, the type face is beautiful and the cover art is just...
by Cathy Wittmeyer | Feb 22, 2024 | Words
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...
by Cathy Wittmeyer | Dec 17, 2023 | Words
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...
by Cathy Wittmeyer | Oct 18, 2023 | Actions
Ten poems, read by 14 young poets, dazzled the packed Perspektiven Raum with brilliance and bravery. 14-year-old Grela Rabi’s as yet untitled poem that begins, “am boden kleben sie fest,“ was selected by our panel of three judges to win the 500 CHF gift certificate to...
