by Cassie Premo Steele (Author)
Since June 2010, Cassie Premo Steele has been inviting friends, fellow artists, clients, and colleagues to join her in a poetry writing collaboration. Every Wednesday she asks friends to add a word to a Facebook thread and constructs a poem that weaves the spirit and intentions of all those words into one piece of writing. The result is this book. In it you will find a wide range of subjects and ideas contributed by more than 300 people from all around the world. It is an exploration on collaboration and on the artistic task of creating one song out of a multitude of different voices.
Author Biography
Cassie Premo Steele, Ph.D. is a poet, writer, and Co-Creating coach with two decades of experience teaching in university and community settings. Her poetry has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize. She gave a 2013 TEDx Talk on "Writing as a Way of Calming, Centering, and Making Meaning." She is the author of eleven books and will be reading from Wednesday, the world's first Facebook co-created poetry book. Charles R. Goldman, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of South Carolina's School of Medicine, attests, "Her teaching and group facilitation skills are outstanding. Her warm, supportive style encourages people to reach deep within themselves to express thoughts and feelings they were not even aware they had. Her knowledge of writing and of the psychology of creativity and healing is amazing."