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What Is Poetry Therapy

Poetry therapy is the use of language, symbol, and story in therapeutic, educational, growth, and community-building capacities. It relies upon the use of poems, stories, song lyrics, imagery, and metaphor to facilitate personal growth, healing, and greater self-awareness. Bibliotherapy, narrative, journal writing, metaphor, storytelling, and ritual are all within the realm of poetry therapy.

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The National Association for Poetry
(NAPT) is a nonprofit, interdisciplinary membership organization supporting and enhancing the profession of poetry therapy. Its mission is to promote growth and healing through written and spoken language, symbolic expression, and story. Our national and international members come from a wide variety of disciplines including, but not limited to, social workers, psychologists, educators, counselors, physicians, nurses, occupational therapists, recreational therapists, librarians, chaplains, holistic healers, coaches, creative writing specialists, and performance poets.

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2025

ANNUAL CONFERENCE 

Exploring the Beauty of the Pacific Northwest: Sustaining Innovation, Creativity, and Hope in an Ever-Changing World will be held from April 2, 2025, (Wednesday) to April 6, 2025, (Sunday) at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Portland - Downtown. Registration opens January 15, 2025. More information about the conference can be accessed here. 


"There is a place where you will find that you are not alone, that your story is not the only story. That we are all part of the same verse, the universe of words. That poetry heals and makes us whole. Come, we’ve been waiting for you."    

 — Richard Brown

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Membership in the National Association for Poetry Therapy is open
to anyone who shares our mission: Promoting growth and healing
through language, symbol, and story.  Become a member.  

MEMBERSHIP
______

Membership in the National Association for Poetry Therapy is open
to anyone who shares our mission: Promoting growth and healing
through language, symbol, and story.  Become a member.  


"NAPT" The National Association for Poetry Therapy

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