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How would your public image change if your organization had a poet-in-residence, like Dartmouth, New York City, Dalhousie Medical School, the Natural History Museum, Walt Whitman House, or the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation? Do you have the power to make it happen?
I am looking for a position as the 2017 poet-in-residence for your organization. I am an award winning poet, published in over 40 poetry collections and a total of over 80 books. See my Amazon author's page: https://www.amazon.com/Kimberly%20Burnham/e/B0054RZ4A0. The work I would do for your organization would include 1. Forty fresh poem written about once a week and to include the words or ideas your organization provides. These poems will be posted on my social media as well as anywhere else you want. 2. The creation of an anthology published in 2017 or early 2018 on Amazon that includes the best of the weekly poems as well as any poems provided by your employees, customers, students, or colleagues. The ebook can be provided free of charge from time to time on Amazon and print books can be sold or given out to customers keeping your name in front of the public on a regular basis. 3. Hosting an online poetry competition for your employees, customers, or colleagues. The contest winners would be published in the anthology and receives a prize of your choosing. The contest could be promoted on Amazon and other social media venues as well as through emails or letters to your customers and employees. 4. Two one hour online workshops for your guests (employees, customers, or colleagues) on topics including a) the effect of certain color, movement, and emotional words on the brain; b) value of poetry in the marketing workplace, c) how to set up an Amazon author's page once you have written your book; d) anthology; a guide to activist poetry; or e) how to create visual poetry and found poetry. The cost of having me as your 2017 Poet in Residence is $1500 per year. Happy Holidays and please let me know if you would be interested in this arrangement. See you in the pattern, Kimberly Burnham [email protected]
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Poetry and Ads Poetry is a way to tell a quick story, using words that conjure up vivid images, and connect profoundly to the reader or hearer. An advertising jingle so catchy it is stuck in the heads of millions of people can start as a poem, rhyming or not, it tells the story of a brand. Sometimes, people look at the obvious ways of creating value, and forget innovative ways to do so, such as the use of poetry. Words play a role in healing, help with customer engagement, create understanding of particular communities, and encourage social activism. Brands and companies that want to more deeply engage their customers and understand how their products and services impact a community would do well to have a poet-in-residence and consider the words they use to tell their story. Understanding the Mental Health Community In a 2015 article on Judy Grahn's commitment to social justice and mental health issues, researchers noted that her poems "illuminate the socially constructed nature of mental illness and challenge readers to consider how and why the characters within them are deemed mentally ill. Her work remains relevant to critical conversations that illuminate contemporary issues of oppression that still haunt us today." (Rust, R. M. (2015). ""A Geography of Disparate Spirits": Pathology as Oppression in "A Woman is Talking to Death" and "Mental"." J Lesbian Stud 19(3): 367-378). When you consider your brand, do your words challenge the reader to have a positive impact in the world? Does your product help them in ways that are relevant to their lives? There are many poignant poems that describe an event, a perspective, or an idea in a way that touches the reader's heart and encourages them to look at the world in a different way or spurs them to action. I Have a Dream Consider the poetic words of Martin Luther King: "I Have a Dream." Just repeating those four words can bring to mind a chain of events that may not have happened had he not been so articulate. Words well placed can change lives as well as create loyalty. Menstruation Poetry A recent National Public Radio (NPR) story highlights the ability of poets to engage the public in social action causes. In the story Breaking The Taboo Of Talking About Periods, Chhavi Schdev and the organizers call for short stories, poems, and verse about menstruation. Poets can lead the way in talking about anything including taboos that affect the lives of women and men everywhere. The program was launched by a group of medical students at the Calicut Medical College in the southern state of Kerala. (http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/12/11/503913085/breaking-the-taboo-of-talking-about-periods) Does your brand and advertising break taboos, talk about important topics, or support healing? Do you understand the lives of the people you want to be your customers? Poem-As-Data Another Medline article highlights the way poems can be a window into a community, describing the words of community members as "poems-as-data." Researchers went on to say, "Participatory narrative analysis was used to empower participants to produce texts to make sense of their lives and their home, school, and neighborhood contexts." The researchers engaged community "youth as co-researchers and experts in issues pertaining to their own neighborhood," and noted "Nuanced analyses of poems-as-data is shown to be critical in informing the recent surge of interdisciplinary, community-engaged, place-based initiatives focused on neighborhood revitalization, violence prevention, and positive youth development." (Dill, L. J. (2015). "Poetic justice: engaging in participatory narrative analysis to find solace in the "killer corridor"." Am J Community Psychol 55(1-2): 128-135). Bridging the Generation Gap Poetry writing community events can also bridge the gap between generations, cultural, ethnic and class differences. Words can put the focus on differences or shared interests. Words can encourage peaceful engagement and war. In one study researchers paired senior citizens with university students in creative arts and language projects. The program benefited both groups increasing health, connection as opposed to isolation, and understanding of the other. In this program, "professional dramaturgical processes of storytelling, reminiscence, and playfulness were key elements in participants' generative learning. They augmented older adults' and university students' ability to understand their situations and try innovative solutions. Skills such as openness, flexibility, and adaptation transferred into students' and older adults' daily lives." Researchers concluded, "participating in this intergenerational theatre group reduced ageism and improved intergenerational relationships. It increased older adults' and university students' well-being by building social networks, confidence, and self-esteem and developed a sense of social justice, empathy, and support for others." (Anderson, S., J. Fast, et al. (2016). "Translating Knowledge: Promoting Health Through Intergenerational Community Arts Programming." Health Promot Pract). Self-Esteem and Confidence Customers When you consider your marketing are you using words that encourage well-being, confidence, and self-esteem? Kimberly Burnham, PhD (Integrative Medicine) Life spirals. As a 28-year-old photographer, Kimberly Burnham appreciated beauty. Then an ophthalmologist diagnosed her with a genetic eye condition saying, "Consider what your life will be like if you become blind." Devastating words trickling down into her soul, she discovered a healing path with insight, magnificence, and vision. Today, a poet and neurosciences expert with a PhD in Integrative Medicine, Kimberly's life mission is to change the face of global brain health. Using health coaching, poetry, Reiki, Matrix Energetics, craniosacral therapy, acupressure, and energy medicine, she supports people in their healing from brain, nervous system, chronic pain, and eyesight issues. http://www.NerveWhisperer.Solutions/ To have Kimberly Burnham consult with your organization or serve as your poet-in-residence contact her at [email protected] Poet-In-Residence are doing all kinds of interesting projects including talk about taboo. Here is an article about poets who are talking about menstruation in India. http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/12/11/503913085/breaking-the-taboo-of-talking-about-periods In an NPR story Breaking The Taboo Of Talking About Periods by Chhavi Schdev, organizers are calling for short stories, poems and verse about menstruation in a contest called Haiku. Showing that poets can lead the way on talking about anything including taboos that affect the lives of women and men everywhere. The program was launched by a group of medical students at the Calicut Medical College in the southern state of Kerala.  |
Kimberly Burnham, Poet In Residence Program How would your public image change if your organization had a poet-in-residence, like Dartmouth, New York City, Dalhousie Medical School, the Natural History Museum, Walt Whitman House, or the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation? Do you have the power to make it happen? ArchivesCategories
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