“We live our own unique odyssey; graceful, awkward, refined, robust, dramatic, reflective as a river that flows through many landscapes of sunlight and darkness.   We develop tools that form to our hands, worn down in a particular way so that getting our foot in the door of the poem becomes as easy as opening a well used gate.  And from this place, like the hiker equipped for expedition, the demands of the poem or whatever is our art. Though we cannot be sure we will come out alive, it is the art by which we choose to live, by which we interpret the universe.”​
“Judith Adams writes with a highly tuned sensibility. She lets paradox Be -- even with the little things. It is a rare artist who can quietly define and celebrate the emerging spirit of our day. With her strong clear vision and a light touch, downy words seem to drift and settle into the heart, bringing this spirit through for all of us.
– JERRY WENNSTROM
Author of “The Inspired heart”
Current Events​
The Poetic Apothecary every 2nd and 4th Wednesday at 2.00 p.m. To zoom in go to Healing Circles Langley.  Visit their website.

Poetry Reading every Friday at 2.00 p.m. Click here to Zoom; Click here to email.  Click here to zoom in.  For more information, email Diana Lindsay at Healing Circles Langley. 

Poetry and Loss
...article from Humanities Washington
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Book this Talk 2019 - 2021

The Poetic Apothecary: Poems for Healing and Comfort

Just as a cup of tea can settle and soothe us, the right poem at the right time can be a powerful sustaining remedy.
Poet and performer Judith Adams explores poetry’s restorative powers by reciting and exploring poems that help us understand grief, fear, sadness, loss, and much more.
By sharing her love of poetry, Adams encourages audiences to share poems that have deeply touched their lives and discusses how writing poetry can be a potent medicine for us all.
To book this talk contact Humanities Washington
Hannah Schwendeman 206 682 1770 x102
Email:hannah@humanities.org

Book Launch

  
A Place Inside 
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Moments of hope, uncertainty, grief, and joy are what constitute a life, and poet Judith Adams has captured many such moments in the vivid poems here. Although each poem focuses, with precise details, on a specific individual or event, the strength of the poetry is the way it allows the reader to nod with recognition and with agreement-yes, that's just how it is. 
 
 
Wednesday April 14th at 2.00 p.m.
At WICA Langley. 
 
Judith Adams is launching her latest book “ A Place Inside.”  She will be reading from her book.  Please come and join us for this event.
 
The Poem You Are Not Writing
 
Tugs at a reluctant morning.
Barelegged and half-undressed,
it drags you to its lair.
Words crop up like nettles, the 
blackbird’s song or the 
wind’s volume of silver
metaphors perch in the poplar tree.
The poem you are not writing
is thrashing around causing trouble, 
roaming back alleys,
and when it finds you,
shoves you up against the wall
until you empty your pockets
and give it everything. 
 
 
 
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