Did they really call our name?

Did they really call our name?

By Kelly de la Rocha, founder of poem RENOVATION Late afternoon on the final day of the Yale Innovation Summit, John Melillo and I were sipping drinks in the courtyard.  We were thrilled to have been chosen to present about poem RENOVATION at the annual summit,...
Celebrate Creativity

Celebrate Creativity

“She’d seem strong- willed somehow. Woman like her imagined the forest paths.” Betty, a member of United Church Homes’ Harmar Place Community in Marietta, Ohio, wrote those lines during a recent poem RENOVATION workshop. She conjured up a vibrant...
Sounds like home

Sounds like home

A while back, my poet friend, Alison, suggested the following tagline for poem RENOVATION:  “Sounds like home.”  Yes, “poem” sounds like home. And “home” is a word you’d expect to find paired with “renovation.” But I couldn’t see how that tagline connected...