Tiferet Journal

New 5-week series starts April 21, 2026!

SPIRITUAL POETRY WRITING
Tuesdays from 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm ET

These are great times to turn to the writings of spiritual poets old and new. We’ll look at poems from Rumi, Tagore, Jane Hirschfield, Mary Oliver, and others. You’ll be given writing prompts to write your own poems that may be of comfort to yourself and others.

The workshop will be held live via Zoom video conferencing.

Workshop fee is $125 for all 5 workshops.

“Cit Ananda shares with our Spiritual Poetry Workshop participants her gift of perfect auditory memory. She gifts to us the shape and flow of our first drafts, their poetic form in-progress, be it free verse, haiku, or formal verse, their literary features that spark new meaning, and their potential for the reader. She makes conscious for us what is often unconscious as we write responses to a spiritual poem prompt. Her love of these new poems and enthusiasm sets the larger tones of our workshop and participation with both our writing and responding to each other’s writing. She sends us and our poems-in-progress off to their next stages, be it revision or publishing or sharing with friends.” -M. Ann Reed

Cit Ananda Fowler

Cit Ananda’s poetry is inspired by direct experience, captured in moments between perception when the mind falls quiet and deep silence shares an offering that touches the mystery of life. She will tell you she catches poetry on the winds of the universe. She has had work published or forthcoming in Mountain Path, Tiferet Journal, Amethyst Review, Soul-Lit, Offerings: A Spiritual Poetry Anthology from Tiferet Journal and El Portal. She is also the author of When Silence Speaks: Messages from the Heart, a full-length poetry book.  Explore more at https://www.beingcitananda.com/publications.