Avra Wing, the facilitator for CIDNY’s workshop, said she was, “amazed and astounded and fascinated by the directions people’s creativity takes them.” Avra is a poet, essayist, and novelist and is also a person with a disability.
In 2011 selections from CIDNY’s group were published in a book produced by the New York Writers’ Coalition, Insight Out. The book is available on Amazon. The group has also performed public readings at the Jefferson Market Library on 6th Avenue.
CIDNY’s popular and highly successful writers’ group welcomes new members at any time. The group meets every Thursday from 3:30-5:30. Watch CIDNY’s calendar for information. Call 212-674-2300 to find out more and how to join.
From time-to-time, we will publish people’s selections on this blog or on our storytelling page. We encourage you to respect the rules of the group – no hostile or negative comments about someone’s writing, but feel free to react to what in the story resonated with you or what you enjoyed about it.
Starting us off is Samaris Ayala, a long time CIDNY participant and volunteer, who sent us this poem:
the community
may help
people with
benefits
the community
heals itself
by helping
the most
unfortunate
nothing
wrong
with helping
those who
receive
benefits