Winter of Poetry - Guest Poet - Tracey Schmidt - Poetry As Meditation

Tracey will be collaborating with live music to create a meditative  environment in which to absorb the words of Rumi, Hafez and her own  poetry.

Tracey Schmidt is an award-winning poet and performer whose work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies. She has performed poetry around the country, and currently teaches creativity and poetry at such facilities as the NC Center for the Advancement of Teaching, Julia Cameron’s Creativity Camp, the JC Campbell Folk School, and here in Asheville, NC.

Her award-winning touring museum exhibit, The Awakening of Turtle Island: Portraits of Native Americans opened for the Olympics in 1996, won the Regional Designation Award in the Humanities, and has toured over 18 museums and cultural centers in the Southeast.

Her book of poetry is entitled I Have Fallen in Love with the World, and that is exactly how she feels about it. She lives in Asheville with a white turtle dove, two hives of bees, and a huge organic garden.

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