Art Saves Lives: Coming to You Live, from the Abyss by Neha M. Sampat
I brought my high school literary magazine home to distressingly little fanfare. I placed it on the coffee table, where it sat until my Nana1 came to visit. He found it there, collecting dust, and gave it a read. “Neha! You are a poet,” he exclaimed, as he shuffled...
Mission Belonging Names Jillian Danback-McGhan to Board of Directors
Mission Belonging welcomes distinguished writer and Navy veteran Jillian Danback‑McGhan to its Board of Directors.Rockville, Maryland — Mission Belonging is honored to announce that Jillian Danback‑McGhan, a distinguished writer, Navy veteran, and respected consultant...
FAWC & Mission Belonging Announce 2026 Summer Workshops and Scholarships for Veterans
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Art Saves Lives: Bringing Our Light into the Dark by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
I sat cross-legged on a curb in the middle of New Jersey in the middle of the 1970s and wrote a poem about despair. I was fourteen, it was humid and windless, and I was waiting outside my father’s girlfriend’s apartment to go home where my father and I had barricaded...
Art Saves Lives: On Poetry and Community by Carla R. Sameth
Usually, I am one to find the thread of dark humor even in the worst of circumstances. But I found myself at a loss. I had been increasingly depressed and anxious since a confluence of world and family events descended, including family deaths and friends’ severe...
Art Saves Lives: In Spite of Perfection by Cynthia Dewi Oka
For most of my life, I could not bear my own face. Though I would recognize what I saw in the mirror as familiar, I did not feel it was mine. What I did feel was that it was wrong. I was raised like a prisoner on an island that most consider a paradise. My parents...
Art Saves Lives: The Fire Within by J.G.P. MacAdam
We admire stoics. Those who bear the wounds of this life in venerable silence. The grandfather or uncle who never spoke of their wartime experiences, for instance. We might pity stoics, too. Those who never found a voice of their own—the words, the ability, the...
