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Meredith Heller

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    RiverWays
    Writing by Heart
    River Spells
    Yuba Witch
    Write a Poem, Save Your Life
    • “Join Heller on her quest to help save the world, one poet at a time.” — from the foreword by Susan G. Wooldridge Write a Poem, Save Your Life helps writers of all ages and experience levels navigate their way through all aspects of life. With writing prompts, tools, encouragement, and moving student examples, Meredith Heller gently guides us in the art of using poetry to figure out who we are and what matters to us and to heal the deeper issues many of us face, such as depression, addiction, health and body image issues, low self-esteem, trauma, gender and sexual identity issues, and home and family problems. Along the way, we learn that writing poems helps us believe in ourselves, make positive life choices, and find direction, purpose, and meaning.

      Write a Poem, Save Your Life
    • Yuba Witch

      • 84 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      Meredith Heller explores the profound connections between nature and the human experience, using metaphors drawn from the natural world to offer insights into personal growth and understanding. Through her journey, she reveals how these metaphors can guide us in navigating life's challenges and illuminate our paths, encouraging readers to find wisdom and inspiration in the environment around them.

      Yuba Witch
    • Meredith Heller explores the profound connections between nature and the human experience, using metaphors derived from the natural world to shed light on personal growth and understanding. Through her journey, she reveals insights that help readers navigate their own lives, emphasizing the importance of nature in shaping our perspectives and experiences.

      River Spells
    • Write to Explore and Express the Wild Beauty of Your Heart Meredith Heller invites you to write as a path toward self-understanding and as a lifelong refuge of steadfast friendship with yourself. She used the power of writing to heal and save her own life, and now she teaches others to do the same. In this book, Meredith shares the techniques she developed to help people from all walks of life explore their emotions, find their voice, and better navigate life’s challenges. Filled with potent exercises and inspiring poems from the author and her students, Writing by Heart is a must-read for anyone, from seasoned writer to novice, who wants to discover the transformative power of writing.

      Writing by Heart
    • RiverWays

      The River Goers' Guide to River Etiquette

      Focusing on the importance of environmental stewardship, this guide combines stunning watercolors with poetry to emphasize the beauty and fragility of rivers. It offers practical advice for visiting these natural treasures while promoting care and respect for the ecosystems and communities that rely on them. RiverWays serves as both an artistic celebration and a call to action for river conservation.

      RiverWays
    • Queering Drag

      • 224 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Theatrical gender-bending, also called drag, is a popular form of entertainment and a subject of scholarly study. However, most drag studies do not question the standard words and ideas used to convey this performance genre. Drawing on a rich body of archival and ethnographic research, Meredith Heller illuminates diverse examples of theatrical gender-bending: male impersonation in variety and vaudeville (1860-1920); the "sexless" gender-bending of El Teatro Campesino (1960-1980); queer butch acts performed by black nightclub singers, such as Stormé DeLarverie, instigator of the Stonewall riots (1910-1970); and the range of acts that compose contemporary drag king shows. Heller highlights how, in each case, standard drag discourses do not sufficiently capture the complexity of performers' intents and methods, nor do they provide a strong enough foundation for holistically evaluating the impact of this work. Queering Drag offers redefinition of the genre centralized in the performer's construction and presentation of a "queer" version of hegemonic identity, and it models a new set of tools for analyzing drag as a process of intents and methods enacted to effect specific goals. This new drag discourse not only allows for more complete and accurate descriptions of drag acts, but it also facilitates more ethical discussions about the bodies, identities, and products of drag perfomers.

      Queering Drag