WRITE YOURSELF BACK TO LIFE
We don’t just read poems. We become them.
We are a community of women in Chicago and all over the world who know that life isn't just meant to be gotten through - it's meant to be lived — fully, wildly, abundantly, expansively.
Join The Poetry Apothecary Collective
We don’t just read poems. We become them.
We are a community of women in Chicago and all over the world who know that life isn't just meant to be gotten through - it's meant to be lived — fully, wildly, abundantly, expansively.
Feeling it all — the joy, the grief, and everything in between.
We are committed to living full out. Straight, no chaser.
We are hell-bent on finding heaven in the mundane:
In the dirty dishes.
In the aftermath of a life that just went up in flames.
In the tender moments when our hearts ask, am I worth choosing?
We are determined to fall deeply in love — with ourselves and the world around us.
We look straight into the eyes of the ghosts who haunt us until they become our most potent teachers.
We romanticize it all by feeling it all. Alchemizing it all.
We are living poetically. And it's time you joined us.
Living room concerts, cozy bookstore salons, Old Town School of Folk Music songwriting workshops, half-day retreats and more!
Upcoming Live Salons
Unlock Your Inner Muse Half Day Retreat
Sunday, March 15, 2026 | 1–4 pm
Together, we’ll move through a curated arc of embodiment, creation, and reclamation, including:
A Persephone-inspired embodiment and creative writing workshop with Dana Marie
A grounding, sacral sound bath activation with Ashley Logan
A playful DIY boudoir photo workshop with Maggie Rife Ponce, reclaiming your gaze and your image through your own eyes
Songs & Stories
Thursday, February 19th
7 pm
Pink Couch Books | Wilmette, IL
March 12th | 6:30 - 8 pm | Pink Couch Books
1161 Wilmette Avenue
Crack open your frozen parts. Invite warmth back into your heart.
Join us for an intimate feminine salon inspired by the powerful myth of The Skeleton Woman from Women Who Run With the Wolves — a story of thawing the frozen heart, reclaiming aliveness, and allowing warmth to return after seasons of loss, survival, or silence.