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,...
“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...
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...
Many more generous and talented people are lending a hand to our effort as well. We are so thankful to everyone who has offered help and encouragement!
poemRENOVATION.com visitors are presented daily with a scrambled passage from literature. They select words that resonate with them, then move them around on a digital canvas to create something new–a poem, a phrase, even word art. There are no rules. The sole...
