Author, poet, and teacher, Laura Hope Gill directs the Thomas Wolfe Center for Narrative for Lenoir-Rhyne University here in Asheville. She is also president of the advisory board to the Thomas Wolfe Memorial and a board member of the Thomas Wolfe Society. She has published two books of Asheville’s architectural history and one collection of poetry about the Blue Ridge mountains. Her current projects include a collection of poems about Georgian Bay Wilderness in Canada and the Artist Tom Thomson, and a novel based on her grandmother’s story of escaping from a hospital in Manila after internment in a Japanese prison camp during WWII. She founded the first certificate program in Narrative Medicine for healthcare providers who seek humanities-based methods for improved patient outcomes and self-care.
Laura is such an inspiring person who holds sacred the power of words to live life well! Enjoy this one~hour episode where Laura talks about the sacred power inherent in words and shares two of her heartfelt poems.
Living Well with Laura Hope~Gill on AshevilleFM, October 26, 2015
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