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  • New Event: Maui Film Festival

    New Event: Maui Film Festival

    Engaging the Senses is a longtime fan and now Legacy Partner of the Maui Film Festival, a beautiful open-air treasure chest of showings each June/July…

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  • Skirball Cultural Center: Blacklist: The Hollywood Red Scare 

    Skirball Cultural Center: Blacklist: The Hollywood Red Scare 

    We’re honored to announce our support of a new project with our longtime partner, Skirball Cultural Center, a community leader in the arts, poetry, and mindfulness, physically located…

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  • New Event: Two Screenings of The Story of Everything June 22, at Marmalade Library and Salt Lake Community College in SLC, Utah

    New Event: Two Screenings of The Story of Everything June 22, at Marmalade Library and Salt Lake Community College in SLC, Utah

    Salt Lake City’s Center for Documentary Expression and Art (CDEA), and Engaging the Senses Foundation (ETSF) are delighted to announce two special screenings of the award-winning…

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  • Supporting Poetry, Art, and Literature, Not Banning!

    Supporting Poetry, Art, and Literature, Not Banning!

    Engaging the Senses Foundation stands by poet Amanda Gorman, whose poem, “The Hill We Climb,” was recently the subject of a Florida school ban along…

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  • Followup: Islands & Rivers: Poetry and the Art of the Possible in the Age of Climate Change

    Followup: Islands & Rivers: Poetry and the Art of the Possible in the Age of Climate Change

    On May 16th and 17th, we were honored to help support and participate in a stellar event entitled Islands & Rivers: Poetry and the Art…

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  • Polynesian Voyaging Society Launch of Moananuiākea

    Polynesian Voyaging Society Launch of Moananuiākea

    A Voyage for Oceans, A Voyage for Earth, 2023 to 2027 “Moananuiākea is Hōkūle‘a’s 15th major voyage in her first 50 years. At the core…

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  • New Event: Premiere of The Story of Everything at CUNY/LaGuardia Community College, October 20, 2023

    New Event: Premiere of The Story of Everything at CUNY/LaGuardia Community College, October 20, 2023

    Please stay tuned for more information about the upcoming 2023 NYC premiere of The Story of Everything introduced and discussed by its creator, Emeritus Hawai’i…

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  • New Event: Kauai Writers Conference 2023

    New Event: Kauai Writers Conference 2023

    Please stay tuned for more information about the upcoming 2023 Kauai Writers Conference, where ETSF will host the EXCLUSIVE FILM SHOWING of The Story of Everything,…

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  • Islands & Rivers: Poetry and the Art of the Possible in the Age of Climate Change

    Islands & Rivers: Poetry and the Art of the Possible in the Age of Climate Change

    This May, we are looking greatly forward to a stellar event from one of our key partners in the realms of poetics and mindfulness, the…

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  • The Story of Everything, April 21, 2023  at UC Berkeley

    The Story of Everything, April 21, 2023  at UC Berkeley

    We come from dances between lovers and friendsand some dances may last for billions of years or some may come to a quick endthere will…

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  • Poetry and the Senses Spring 2023

    Poetry and the Senses Spring 2023

    Noʻu Revilla, D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie, and Donovan Kūhiō Colleps Engaging the Senses Foundation is pleased to share updates on our wonderful partners. We begin with…

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  • Happy Holidays and Final Update 2022

    Happy Holidays and Final Update 2022

    We are a collective of notes in the jazz scale of humanity united through the song of our breath  and though we speak in different tongues,…

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This Sunday, The Poets Corner presents a reading f This Sunday, The Poets Corner presents a reading from The Nature of Our Times, an anthology born from Poets for Science, gathering voices across art, ecology, and Indigenous knowledge. These poets give witness to how nature shapes us and how, in turn, we shape what remains.

In a time that calls for attention and care, poetry offers a way of seeing more clearly, of remembering our place within something larger.

A free online reading
Sunday, April 12
4:00 to 5:30 PM ET

Register at ThePoetsCorner.org

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Victor Frankl, a philosopher, psychotherapist and Victor Frankl, a philosopher, psychotherapist and Holocaust survivor, asserted that the pursuit of meaning, rather than happiness, was the key to living well, and he upheld this principle even in the concentration camps. Let us strive, then, to offer our light despite the pain of burning. 

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An ode to the future (not without its wistfulness! An ode to the future (not without its wistfulness!), this poem blesses what is ever-renewable: our love for the young—and for the winged seeds of maple trees.

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In this interview, the interviewee speaks first an In this interview, the interviewee speaks first and listens for our questions only at the end, knowing what they are better than we do. Spring happens whether we are ready or not — like birth, like death, like jubilation that will not be postponed. 

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When we are attuned, nature is our teacher: at tim When we are attuned, nature is our teacher: at times subtle; at times brazen. From her we learn the bitter lesson of how to release what we’d prefer to keep.

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The way sailors navigate by starlight, poets and w The way sailors navigate by starlight, poets and writers navigate by love. Marguerite Porete, a medieval French mystic, wrote The Mirror of Simple Souls, a book of mingled poetry and prose in which she claimed that one could know God without the intermediary of organized religion. She was burned at the stake and would not recant to save her life.

#poetrycommunity #poetryandpresence #artofattention #wordsofwisdom #engagingthesenses
The poem’s unvarnished diction conveys the speaker The poem’s unvarnished diction conveys the speaker’s vulnerability. It is this vulnerability, as the poet wisely reminds us, that distinguishes honest spiritual labor from a  lofty, empty idea.

#kimrosen #poetrylovers #poetryofpresence #poetsociety #poetryisnotaluxury
Randall’s poem is imbued with femininity and feroc Randall’s poem is imbued with femininity and ferocity; it speaks to a type of resistance that’s more love than anger; more glove than fist.

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This listicle poem reads like a biblical verse. Th This listicle poem reads like a biblical verse. The word “remember” calls us out of the prison of the present (which sometimes feels like heaven!) and into a deeper sense of belonging.

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