Jacinta White, founder of The Word Project and Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing

Today's guest is Jacinta White. She is a teaching artist, poet, certified corporate trainer and facilitator, and advocate for change. Her passion is to help others to better understand the role and value of arts as a tool for healing and building community. In 2001, she founded The Word Project where she works with individuals and groups using art as a catalyst for healing. In 2015, she founded Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing to provide a platform for those to tell their story through poetry, creative nonfiction, and photography.A teacher of "poetry as healer," Jacinta White has studied Poetry Therapy with Dr. Sherry Reiter of the Creative Righting Center and has facilitated alongside John Fox of the Institute for Poetic Medicine. Her chapbook, broken ritual was published by Finishing Line Press (2012), and she's a contributor to My Soul to His Spirit: Soulful Writings of African American Daughters to Their Fathers (SoulDictates, 2005), and editor of Walking With God (Duncan & Duncan, 1996). Jacinta's latest collection of poems-–Resurrecting the Bones: Born from a Journey through African American Churches & Cemeteries of the Rural South (Press 53, 2019)The author of Setting Down the sacred past: African american race histories describes White’s lush poetry as, “Part meditation, part prayer, and part act of resurrection that evokes the complex interweaving of ancestry, praise, and everyday interaction that comprise black church life in the South.”