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Kelly Lydick

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Kelly Lydick received a B.A. in Writing and Literature from Burlington College, and an M.A. in Writing and Consciousness from the New College of California, San Francisco (now at CIIS).

Her writing has appeared in Guernica, The Rumpus, Drunken Boat, Switched-on Gutenberg, Mission at Tenth, Thema, Tarpaulin Sky, and many others.

Her articles on dreams, meditation, and other subjects have appeared in magazines including CO Yoga + Life, Yoga + Life, Natural Awakenings, True Blue Spirit, Java, Western Art Collector, Santa Fean. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writers’ Block, and she’s appeared on NPR’s Word podcast, iHeart Radio, InnerZension Radio, Align Radio, and others.

She is the author of the experimental work, Mastering the Dream, Kelly Lydick received a B.A. in Writing and Literature from Burlington College, and an M.A. in Writing and Consciousness from the New College of California, San Francisco (now at CIIS).

Her writing has appeared in Guernica, The Rumpus, Drunken Boat, Switched-on Gutenberg, Mission at Tenth, Thema, Tarpaulin Sky, and many others.

Her articles on dreams, meditation, and other subjects have appeared in magazines including CO Yoga + Life, Yoga + Life, Natural Awakenings, True Blue Spirit, Java, Western Art Collector, Santa Fean. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writers’ Block, and she’s appeared on NPR’s Word podcast, iHeart Radio, InnerZension Radio, Align Radio, and others.

She is the author of the experimental work, Mastering the Dream, and she’s a contributing author to the anthologies Dreams That Change Our Lives; My Journal My Journey; and Are You the Missing Piece?. She's also the author of Dream Incubation for Great Self-Awareness: A Handbook.

Kelly teaches workshops, and offers private consultations for those interested in personal growth and consciousness expansion.

She holds professional certifications as a Gateway Dreaming™ Coach, Life Coach, Meditation Facilitator, Reiki Master, Crystal Reiki Master, Animal Reiki Master, and in Energy Medicine, Optimal Healing Environments, and in Music Therapy and Sound Healing. She is also a graduate of the inaugural class of Eckhart Tolle’s School of Awakening.

Kelly holds professional memberships with the International Association for the Study of Dreams, where she has presented her work on dream studies and currently serves on the Executive Board, and with the Academy of American Poets.

Kelly was the co-founding editorial board member and Associate Editor of Immanence: The Journal of Applied Myth, Story, and Folklore.

Her signature creative writing workshop, Writing the Dream Time, has been featured at Burlington College, at ASU’s Piper Center for Creative Writing, at the International Association for the Study of Dreams, and others.

In 2016, Kelly was honored by the internationally-renowned Omega Institute of Rhinebeck, New York, with a Juno Residency Award for excellence in women’s leadership for her service-based business, Waking the Dream.

In late 2018, Kelly founded The Story Laboratory, a boutique publishing consulting company that offers support for aspiring creative writers, established authors, and publishing companies through all phases of the publishing process.

Her website is: www.kellylydick.com
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“Dreams are one of the fastest ways to increase your self-awareness.”
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“The cycle is king in the domain of time.”
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“Love is like a memory, a true joy, the only source.”
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“Dreams are one of the fastest ways to increase your self-awareness.”
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“Love is like a memory, a true joy, the only source.”
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“The cycle is king in the domain of time.”
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“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction.”
― Clark Zlotchew

“Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who talks to his characters or harbours any illusions about the creative process. But at the same time, I think it's juvenile and arrogant when literary writers compulsively remind their readers that the characters aren't real. People know that already. The challenge is to make an intelligent reader suspend disbelief, to seduce them into the reality of a narrative.”
― Michel Faber

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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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