Tag: poetry

  • Robin Coste Lewis: From brain injury to poetry

    Listen to this post:  While Robin Coste Lewis’s new, award-winning book of poetry, “Voyage of the Sable Venus” is not about brain injury, it came about from brain injury. After her own injury, she became a poet. And now we have this outrageously powerful, lyrical début book that we probably wouldn’t have if she’d continued…

  • Louise Mathewson: Author’s writing transformed by trauma

    Listen to this post:  I recently came across author and poet Louise Mathewson. You can find some of her TBI-related and non-TBI poetry on her website www.louisemathewson.com. Here is the press release describing her new memoir, which shares the process and tools she used to recover after her severe traumatic brain injury. “A car accident shattered…

  • Guest Blogger Tyler Presnell: “Respect the Journey”

    Listen to this post: Tyler is back! And he’s got a new book filled with some of his most mind-opening rhymes called “Respect the Journey.” Tyler does a lot of public speaking about disrespectful driving and about his own traumatic brain injury in a massive car wreck. He also expresses himself through rhyme. Goodness knows…

  • Guest Blogger: Tyler Presnell–Don’t judge

    “We Wont quit Misunderstood judged and limp If the Wrong side of our mind is hit Loneliness can be a killer If the time we spend Hatin our own image and the line is thin That we walk on every day Society causes pain I wanna be normal But see the problem these days No…

  • Guest Blogger: Tyler Presnell

    Listen to this post: What momentum we have here, folks! We’re a blogging machine. Here’s what Tyler told me the other day about the time right after his traumatic brain injury: “Poetry was my only friend for many years.  While I was going through the first few years of my recovery friends weren’t around much. …