The Fourth Wall: A Peek Inside the Performance of Poetry — A Workshop with author Jeanann Verlee
Join us on Thursday, April 23rd 2026, at 7 PM Eastern Time for a workshop with author Jeanann Verlee! Ticket sales for this workshop support Mission Belonging's year-round free programming.In theatre, the “fourth wall” refers to the imaginary wall between the actors...
Trash Animals: A Visual Arts Workshop with artist Zehra Khan
Join us on Wednesday, April 22nd 2026, at 7 PM Eastern Time for Trash Animals with artist Zehra Khan. In this workshop we use the contents of your trash to make sculpture. Materials like junk mail, food containers, packaging of any sort become the building...
Choosing your Publishing Path in 2026 — An Online Workshop with Allison K. Williams
Join us on Thursday, April 16th, 2026, at 7 PM Eastern Time for a workshop with author Allison K. Williams! This workshop is held in partnership with Strathmore.Want to get your story into the world, but not quite sure how? Traditional publishing pays the author, but...
Art Saves Lives: From Viewing To Creating, From Healing To Thriving by Susan Niemi
In this hybrid essay, Susan Niemi writes with specificity, clarity, and the clear eye of a survivor who knows how much work it takes to forge a path forward again and again. Studded with lines of her own poetry, this essay is a meditation on using creativity...
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...







