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Mindful Poetry Moments 2024 collage by Julia O. Bianco
National Poetry Month is just around the corner, so we’re excited to announce the poetry selected for Mindful Poetry Moments 2024 — its 5th anniversary of celebrating poetry and meditation since 2019 — and to introduce the wonderful facilitators that will help share them out throughout the virtual gatherings this month! This year’s poetry was curated by the translator, vocalist, composer, poet, and educator Haleh Liza Gafori with the theme of Ways of Loving, Ways of Giving: poems centered around languages of love and the quiet gestures done for one another. All the poems will be included with our Mindful Music Moments mindfulness content available to our MMM schools and for free to any other school, individual, or social service organization interested in signing up. Read about the poetry for each week and each week's corresponding mindfulness and poetry facilitators are listed below!
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Mindfulness Facilitator: Daniel Fresco
Daniel Fresco is a professional drummer, personal trainer, sound healing practitioner and holistic wellness specialist. He tours with various musical acts and leads meditation workshops and meditative singing circles, incorporating yogic, sonic, and somatic tools to create a unique and accessible meditative practice for beginners and advanced practitioners of meditation. He believes these practices are powerful and practical tools for spiritual growth and transformation, and hopes to offer them in a way that enables and inspires people to integrate them into daily life.
Connect with Daniel: Website, Instagram
Poetry Facilitator: Haleh Liza Gafori
Haleh Liza Gafori is a translator, vocalist, composer, poet, and educator born in NYC of Iranian descent. Her acclaimed book, GOLD (New York Review Books Classics/Penguin Random House, 2022), features her translations of poems by Rumi, the 13th century sage and mystic. Gafori is a 2024 MacDowell fellow and 2023 recipient of grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, supporting the development of a cross-media performance piece based on GOLD, weaving translations, original text, and musical compositions sung in Persian and English. Gafori’s work has been published by Columbia University Press, Harvard Review, Literary Hub, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. She has presented lectures, workshops, and performance pieces at universities and festivals across the country and abroad, including Stanford University, Swarthmore College, Lincoln Center, the New York Public Library, and Bradford Literary Fest.
Daniel Fresco
Haleh Liza Gafori
Trina Basu
Eddie Gonzalez
Mindfulness Facilitator: Trina Basu
Trina Basu (she/her) is a violinist, improviser, composer & teacher based in NYC. Born & raised in Miami, FL to parents of North American & Indian origin, Trina’s sound brings together her early influences of Western classical music, American folk music, & Indian classical raga into dialogue with jazz & improvised music to stunning effect. Her singular & expansive music has been described as "a dynamic sonic blend of uncommon mesmeric beauty" (All About Jazz) & "free-flowing, globe-spanning" (The New Yorker). Basu’s creative practice is grounded in the belief that music is a healing force. In addition to co-leading both Nakshatra, a duo project with Carnatic violinist Arun Ramamurthy, & Karavika with cellist Amali Premawardhana, Basu harnesses her background in music therapy & education to bring the power of music to schools, prisons, & hospitals. She has performed on stages like Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center & the Newport Jazz Festival & the award winning Broadway musical Hadestown. Basu is a recipient of the Indo-Shastri Canadian Institute Artist-Fellowship, Brooklyn Arts Council & Jubilation Foundation. She has been an Artist-In-Resident at the Avaloch Farm Music Institute, Next Stage Arts Project, MASS MoCA & The Pocantico Center/Rockefeller Brothers Foundation. She is a co-founder of the non-profit Brooklyn Raga Massive. Basu lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband & two young children.
Connect with Trina: Website, Instagram
Poetry Facilitator: Eddie Gonzalez
Eddie Gonzalez (he/him) works at the intersections of creative expression and spiritual care, as well as digital media and community engagement. With a background in journalism and creative writing, he became a hospice chaplain in 2009, and over the last fourteen years has worked within healthcare and national nonprofits to create meaningful spaces for storytelling, compassionate listening, and reflective dialogue. He currently works at On Being. Eddie has a deep interest in the relationship between inner and outer life and how the stories we tell can have profound impacts on ourselves, each other, and the natural world. He finds inspiration and solace in the arts, the outdoors, and time spent with loved ones.
Connect with Eddie's work at On Being: Website
Mindfulness Facilitator: Morley
Morley is a singer, producer, composer and educator who weaves the threads of jazz, soul, and folk traditions into a singular tapestry of vocal and acoustic splendor - the sound wave or a life lived with uncommon devotion to human rights and environmental justice. To date, Morley has released seven albums and spearheaded the successful fundraiser Borderless Lullabies that continues to be a source of revenue for the pro-bono legal defense fund, KIND: Kids – In – Need – Of – Defense, to aid reuniting children with their families after being separated by ICE. She recently released a globally conscious children/family album, Story of the Sky with her husband, Chris Bruce, under the name, ‘The Bruces”.
Connect with Morley: Website, Instagram, Spotify
Poetry Facilitator: Haleh Liza Gafori
Haleh Liza Gafori is a translator, vocalist, composer, poet, and educator born in NYC of Iranian descent. Her acclaimed book, GOLD (New York Review Books Classics/Penguin Random House, 2022), features her translations of poems by Rumi, the 13th century sage and mystic. Gafori is a 2024 MacDowell fellow and 2023 recipient of grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, supporting the development of a cross-media performance piece based on GOLD, weaving translations, original text, and musical compositions sung in Persian and English. Gafori’s work has been published by Columbia University Press, Harvard Review, Literary Hub, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. She has presented lectures, workshops, and performance pieces at universities and festivals across the country and abroad, including Stanford University, Swarthmore College, Lincoln Center, the New York Public Library, and Bradford Literary Fest.
Morley
Haleh Liza Gafori
Ta.Ma.R.A. Belinda
Samyak Shertok
Mindfulness Facilitator: Ta.Ma.R.A. Belinda
Ta.Ma.R.A. Belinda is a conceptual artist, crafts(wo)man, and healing guide developing a unique perspective towards a study in mathematical design and crown energy. Using skills cultivated in continuous research of functional design, spiritual philosophy, and cultural art, she uses multiple disciplines and techniques to develop a seamless integration between art and mental expansion.
Connect with Ta.Ma.R.A.: Website, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, TikTok
Poetry Facilitator: Samyak Shertok
Samyak Shertok’s poems appear in Cincinnati Review, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Poetry, Shenandoah, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. A finalist for the National Poetry Series, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, Alice James Award, and the Jake Adam York Prize, he has received fellowships from Aspen Words, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. His work has been awarded the Robert and Adele Schiff Award for Poetry, the Gulf Coast Prize in Poetry, and the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize. Originally from Nepal, he is currently the inaugural Hughes Fellow in Poetry at Southern Methodist University.
Workshop Facilitator: Sheila McMullin (she/her)
is a poet, writing coach, and Master Gardener. She is the author of daughterrarium from Cleveland State University Poetry Center and a Board Member of the Contemporary Irish Arts Center of Los Angeles. A fierce advocate for youth storytellers, she is a proud co-editor of Humans of Ballou and The Day Tajon Got Shot both written by teen authors and published by Shout Mouse Press. Through her love for words, herbs, and composting, she crafts handmade paper out of herbal marc, seeds, and recycled materials as an act of devotion to the natural world. She holds her M.F.A. from George Mason University. For more, visit www.thewritemagick.com
Sheila McMullin
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