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We're so happy with how Mindful Poetry Moments 2025 turned out: former Cincinnati Poet Laureate Manuel Iris served as our MPM Curator, we released our largest poetry compilation yet (featuring a record-breaking 175 student submissions!), and celebrating the book launch in our brand new space in the Walnut Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati.
As we continue to celebrate the achievements of our Mindful Poetry community from this year, we also want to look ahead into the rest of the year and beyond: we're so happy to announce Eddie Gonzalez as our Mindful Poetry Moments 2026 Curator! Like our past curators have done for each National Poetry Month in April, Eddie will select our four poems to read, contemplate, celebrate, and respond to with newly-written poetry.
Eddie Gonzalez works at the intersections of spiritual care, community engagement, digital media, and creative expression. With a background in journalism and creative writing, he became a hospice chaplain in 2009, and over the last sixteen years has worked within healthcare and national nonprofits - most recently at On Being and StoryCorps - to create meaningful spaces for storytelling, reflective dialogue, and compassionate listening. He 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 world around us. He is currently a Senior Fellow at CoGenerate and serves on the board of the podcast, Threshold. He finds inspiration and solace in the arts, the outdoors, and time spent with loved ones.
Eddie has been essential to incubating and nurturing Mindful Poetry Moments since the very beginning, championing the program at On Being when the program was just a seedling of an idea. Eddie is the one who introduced Manuel Iris, our last curator, to On Being, so this is very much a full-circle moment. We’re so happy to say that he will continue to be such an indelible presence for this program going into next year.
Additionally, we want to showcase some of the next Poetry Gatherings we're featuring in the Fall and Winter: stay tuned for a full listing of our selected poems and facilitators, who we're also so excited to showcase. This October 22nd from 3-4pm EST, join us again for a Mindful Poetry Virtual Gathering, featuring Erica Manto Paulson (who served as facilitator this past April and wrote a preface for the Sixth Edition anthology) as Poetry Facilitator. And keep an eye on our Events page for more updates on future Gatherings!
We also wanted to give a special thank-you to the Millstone Fund for a very generous grant for which we're able to support Mindful Poetry Moments in 2026 and bring the program to more youth!
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