Wendy Brown-Baez, Performance Poet

Episode run time 35 minutes. Among other things, Wendy Brown-Báez has facilitated writing groups, managed shelters for the homeless, visited penitentiaries and half-way homes, and worked as a hospice volunteer. She studied alternative healing, ceremony, and spiritual traditions and is a member of a woman's Moon Lodge. Wendy is a performance poet who has performed nationally and in Mexico, in cafes, bars, galleries, bookstores, schools, cultural centers, peace centers, writers groups, art festivals, and women's retreats. In 2008, she received a McKnight grant to teach a bilingual writing workshop with at risk youth and in 2009, a McKnight grant to develop a writing workshop with impoverished youth into an art installation, both provided through COMPAS Community Art Program. She is the author of "Ceremonies of the Spirit", a full-length collection of love poems published by Plain View Press in 2009. For more info, go to Wendy's website, Writing Circles for Healing: www.wendybrownbaez.com.