For the past 30 years, NAPT members have forged a community of healers and lovers of words and language. We are psychotherapists, counselors, psychologists, social workers, and psychiatrists. We are poets, journal keepers, storytellers, and songwriters. We are teachers, librarians, adult educators, and university professors. We are doctors, nurses, occupational/ recreational therapists; ministers, pastoral counselors, and spiritual directors. We are artists, dancers, dramatists, musicians, and writers.

We work in many settings where people deal with personal and communal pain and the search for growth. As poetry therapists, we use all forms of literature and the language arts, and we are united by our love of words, and our passion for enhancing the lives of others and ourselves.

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REGISTER NOW for NAPT's 2013 Conference: April 11-14, 2013
Much of Chicago looks out from the shores of Lake Michigan.  “Michigan” derives from the Chippewa "Michi-gama" meaning large lake, that word from "majigan": clearing, what the natives called the space Europeans cleared beside the lake for settlements. 

The conference program includes keynote poet Antler, keynote speaker Geri Chavis, and an amazing lineup of workshops and stimulating social events. Join us! Please come in and learn more.

Where and How is Poetry Therapy Used?
Could you or the population that you serve benefit from the healing power of words? Poetry therapy is one of the Expressive Arts Therapies, which include art, music, drama, psychodrama and dance therapy. We would like to extend to you the services of NAPT's trained poetry therapists. Please download our Integrative Medicine Packet (PDF), which details how poetry therapy is used with various populations.

A Message to Our Members

We are committed to providing you the service you deserve as a member of the National Association for Poetry Therapy (NAPT). We appreciate you and want to encourage you to communicate with us! Please contact our Administrator via e-mail at naptadmin@poetrytherapy.org.

Thank you for being a member of NAPT. We look forward to serving you this membership year.
Has your contact information changed? If so, please send all changes of address, phone, e-mail, etc., to our Administrator at naptadmin@poetrytherapy.org.