VICKY J EDMONDS
is a poet and teacher who uses the written and spoken word as an ongoing therapeutic and spiritual practice. She works with adults, adolescents and children in her series of writing classes as well as in tandem with therapists and their clients on dealing with many of the specific issues in our lives.

Her published books include Inside Voices, used to the dark, once drunk / opening, unpredictable as breathing (poetry) and the first two volumes in the Writes of Passage series (writing models). She has also compiled more than 100 books of writings from workshops she has taught at schools, treatment centers, at-risk programs and a children's prison near Seattle.

She has hosted a series of radio shows on this topic on Straight Talk/Recovery Radio, presented at the National Association for Poetry Therapy and the International Expressive Arts Therapy Annual Conferences, taught around the country for a CD-ROM magazine written and produced by youth and spent a month teaching in a monastery/halfway house in Italy as well.

Vicky Edmonds lives and works primarily in the Pacific Northwest and has been using writing as a healing tool for the last 34 years.

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Press about Vicky Edmonds

Feeling with words:
Poet helps fifth-graders give voice to their thoughts about attacks
As a learning opportunity and a chance to emphasize the PeaceBuilder program at Thoreau Elementary School, teacher Barbara Gilles looked for someone to help her students write about their feelings. In PeaceBuilder schools, peace, compassion and communication are infused into classroom routines. Gilles found Seattle poet and writing teacher Vicky Edmonds.

What's the word? Festival
Vicky Edmonds, a West Seattle poet who for the past 10 years has taught writing as therapy, will be one of the featured speakers at Write Out Loud, the Eastside's annual literary- and spoken-arts festival. Hers is one of the underlying philosophies propelling this event, now in its third year.

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