What’s your POETRY RX?

There is a poem for every ailment, and every emotion. Take the quiz to get your own prescription...

May these poetic prescriptions and wise words of advice from my personal poetry dispensary offer a little comfort, delight or inspiration. Each prescription includes a poem and a prompt for you to write your own medicine too.

Hi, I’m Jenny…

I’m an expressive poetry facilitator and an advocate of writing poetry as a practice for nurturing our intuition, self-care and healing on every level.

After surviving complications from open heart surgery to correct a congenital heart defect (the same one as Amy Grant), writing poetry was my road home, and continues to be a vital part of my healing journey.

What people are saying:

“Poetry is simply speaking the truth. Each of us has a truth as unique as our own fingerprints. Without knowing that truth, without speaking it aloud, we cannot know who we are and that we are already whole. In the most profound way, speaking our truth allows us to know that our life matters.”

— Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.

“The present findings, along with those from conceptually similar experiments, suggest that the disclosure of trauma is simultaneously associated with improvement in certain aspects of immune function and physical health.”

— Dr. James Pennebaker

“Poetry gives you permission to feel.”

— James Autry

“By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other.”

— Rita Dove