The Dharma of Poetry: How Poems Can Deepen Your Spiritual Practice and Open You to Joy, Paperback/John Brehm

Discover how to engage with poetry to support your spiritual practice, leading to more mindfulness, equanimity, and joy. In The Dharma of Poetry , John Brehm shows how poems can open up new ways of thinking, feeling, and being in the world. Brehm demonstrates the practice of mindfully entering a poem, with an alertness, curiosity, and open-hearted responsiveness very much like the attention we cultivate in meditation. Complete with poetry-related meditations and writing prompts, this collection of lively, elegantly written essays can be read as a standalone book, or as a companion to the author's acclaimed anthology, The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy . About author(s): John Brehm is the author of three books of poetry, Sea of Faith , Help Is on the Way , and No Day at the Beach . His poems have appeared widely in journals and anthologies, including Poetry , The Sun , The Gettysburg Review , The Writer's Almanac , Plume , Best American Poetry , The Norton Introduction to Literature , and many others. He is the editor of The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy and the associate editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry . He lives in Portland, Oregon, and teaches poetry and meditation classes in Portland and in Denver, Colorado. He can be found online at johnbrehmpoet.com.