Dear Friend ~
We invite your help to assure the widest possible broadcast of a very moving film, Healing Words: Poetry & Medicine on PBS affiliates around the country, featuring John Fox (Certified Poetry Therapist) and the great Arts-in-Medicine program at Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Florida.

As integrative medicine gains increasing support, a film like Healing Words will open people's eyes and hearts to a whole person approach to healthcare.

Please read the following announcement and take a moment to view the trailer of the film. Your active help will make a difference!

Thank You ~
Melissa Layer
for The Institute for Poetic Medicine

On July 1st, the moving documentary film, HEALING WORDS: POETRY AND MEDICINE, will be fed by satellite to PBS stations across the country.

TO VIEW A TRAILER OF THE FILM:
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Or Go To: http://poeticmedicine.org/healingwords.html

HOW YOU CAN HELP:

Each station chooses to broadcast the documentary on July 1 or tape it for presentation later. There is, however, no guarantee that they will do either - unless they hear from YOU!

Please call and write your local PBS Affiliate Programming Director to highly recommend this breakthrough film and ask them to broadcast Healing Words from this satellite feed or include it on their schedule for a later date.

Ask them to give HEALING WORDS: POETRY AND MEDICINE a good time slot!

TO LOCATE YOUR TV STATIONS THAT AIR PBS:
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Or Go To: http://www.pbs.org/tvschedules

If there is more than one station, please consider contacting each station. The Institute for Poetic Medicine and the filmmakers are grateful for your joining with us to bring soul back to medicine. Your Call Will Make a Difference!

Please Feel Free To Share This Announcement With Friends, Family and Colleagues!

HERE IS THE DOCUMENTARY DESCRIPTION FROM THE PRODUCERS, HEALING WORDS PRODUCTIONS:

HEALING WORDS: POETRY & MEDICINE is a poignant and powerful documentary about the uses of poetry and the other expressive arts at a large teaching hospital in Florida. These days when Americans have grown cynical about health care costs, impersonal treatment, and the intrusion of corporate self-interest in the doctor-patient relationship, Healing Words reminds us of the best medicine can offer: a doctor at the bedside, really listening to a patient. Dr. John Graham-Pole and poetry therapist John Fox enter hospital rooms and help patients write poems as part of their healing process. Viewers will be touched by the ways in which poetry builds compassion between doctor and patient. In answer to the question, Can Poetry Heal? This documentary gives a resounding YES!

Producers: Joan Baranow, James Cavenaugh, Victoria Chaban, David Watts, MD; Narration: Peter Coyote; Directors: James Cavenaugh, David Drewry; Original Music Score: Noa Winter Lazerus; Running Time: 56:46.

CONTACT: Joan Baranow
Healing Words Productions
73 Hillside Avenue
Mill Valley, CA 94941
(415) 318-8641