This winter I had to ask a lot of friends for help through a round of figuring out what I wanted to do when I grew up. It was, a fight, I guess, to surrender my love, my talents, my business, my creativity to the will of God. It was amazing how much energy it . . . → Read More: The Pitbull Poem and the Fog Poem
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This is one of the poems about my spiritual emergency that I’m starting now to generate: A Gift Not to Fear Conflict If I was a warrior healer poet entrepreneur and visionary, I’d forsee how we can build a way in the world where it’s safe to be Different. Ask questions, verify all the directions. . . . → Read More: A Gift Not to Fear Conflict After I competed in the Olympics, I coached Judo for 6 years and introduced 300 kids to the sport. I took a break when my work situation wouldn’t allow me to time to market my Judo club. I start back tonight thanks to Dlt Judo Jujitsuand Combat Sports KC who worked out a way to make a free . . . → Read More: How Judo Works I’ve just come through a really rough week with an accidental dosing of a hallucinogen, plus my dog being mauled by a pitbull, plus a hugely stressful work interview for a big grant, plus a spiritual emergency. I learned some cool things and had some very fun experiences slightly outside regular reality and time and . . . → Read More: Psalm 91 Spoken Word-icized  3 comments  New Poems, Spiritual Seekings  bicycle commuting, Christian community, cliff graham, disability industrial complex, Heartland Community Church. Kansas City, how to get through struggle, overcoming adversity, poetry for adversity, poetry for battle, power of poetry, prayer in times of need., psalm 91, psalms for difficulty, schizophrenia without medications, spiritual emergency, warrior psalms Peer support is what’s missing in the mental health revolution J. Rock Johnson and Dr. Jean Campbell helped inspire this mental health revolution A 2002 report by the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors found that peer support was the most effective mental health intervention. Yet very few people can access it, . . . → Read More: The Details of the Mental Health Revolution Oppression in America goes both ways for most of us This is a poem that’s timely for what’s going on in the world right now with the Occupy movement. I’m really proud of how the video came out since I am learning more about editing videos and changing around the camera angle so the video . . . → Read More: I am the Oppressed and the Oppressor The Disability Industrial Complex Disclaimer: If your psych meds are working for you please please keep taking them as long as you want. If you want to get off them do it extremely slowly and carefully and consult your physician. I am Corinna West and I approve this message. Thank you, dear Pfizer, for . . . → Read More: The Disability Industrial Complex 3 comments New Poems big pharma, brain damage, civil rights, consumer movement, corporate liars, Depakote, ECT, evidence based medicine, forced medication, Geodon, hope, involuntary medication, lithium, mental health, mental health recovery, over-medication, psychiatric medication discontinuance, Robert Whitaker, schizophrenia, shock treatment This poem is for all the people who see me leaving on a bicycle and say, “Be Careful.” I thought of this poem coming home from my first solo bicycle tour to Wichita. The second day back I’d been riding with a tailwind all day and didn’t realize that you can get hot in a . . . → Read More: “Be Careful” at the Jazz Poetry Jams Leave a comment New Poems American Jazz Museum, anit-war, bicycle, bicycle commuting, big box store, Blue Room, Corinna West, energy independence, hope, Iraq war, Jazz Poetry Jams, Kansas City, local merchants, mental health recovery, MO", peace over power, spoken word poetry, sustainability, urban cyclist My best friend, Ken Braiterman, told me that my videos should have more close ups, and interesting video scenery in the background. I was riding around all day last Friday working on developing the Chocolate Fairy project, talking to people on the streets. I rode down to the Scout, Kansas City’s overlook onto the city. . . . → Read More: The Chocolate Fairy Poem I’ve been trying to write this poem for about five years and finally here it is. It’s about a place in Shoal Creek Greenway in Kansas City, MO where I used to go mountain biking and walk my dog. It was right after my really bad hospitalization for losing hope in my dreams then my . . . → Read More: The Moment I First Saw Beauty in Graffiti |
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