I recently spoke to Jeff Blair, a 49 year old East Londoner with a long history of addiction. Jeff is only a few months into both recovery and poetry writing but his enthusiasm for each of them is ...

“So trust me now: when I say thirst, I mean defeated,/ abandoned-in-faith, lonely-as-the-slow-charge-into-a-bayonet/ thirst. Imagine being the sand forced to watch silt dance/ in the Nile ...

poetry into power. Known on stage as Dakotah Faye, Dakota Poitra has transformed a life shaped by identity struggles, addiction, and creative passion into a music career rooted in authenticity and ...

He even helped fellow addicts achieve sobriety and had been in recovery for most of 2016 ... “So I started writing poems about his addiction, even when he was still alive. They were angry ...

I used to hate reading growing up, but since the books were about addiction, recovery, and men’s mental ... Source: Sam Louie Poetry and photography soon followed as an extension of my need ...

An overdose survivor is sharing his experience recovering from drug addiction ... features about 30 poems about Spenser Smith's experience with substance use and recovery amid B.C.'s toxic ...

"He was struggling with his addiction and I just let ... Also, her brother Steven has been in recovery now for the past year and he's writing poetry as well.

For the last five years, hundreds of women battling drug addiction have come ... handles the creative side of recovery, has spent the last year-and-a-half compiling poems, writings and art created ...