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About Lindsey

Lindsey O’Neill is a poet, teacher, and performance artist. She is founder of Lindsey O’Neill Yoga & Writing, teaches creative writing at Boston’s GrubStreet, and has been a regular at the Lizard Lounge Sunday night Poetry Jam since 2016 . Lindsey infuses her writing classes with contemplative practices to foster compassionate awareness, distill our authentic voice, and enhance sustainable creativity. She believes both awareness-building practices and the embodied creative arts are capable of inspiring community connection leading to social change. Lindsey holds a 200 HR YTT certification from the New England School of Integrative Yoga Therapeutics, a City of Boston Artist Certification, and an MFA in Poetry from Lesley University. Lindsey has had poems published in Berklee's FUSION magazine, Hare’s Paw Literary Journal, and Mass Poetry’s “Poem of the Moment.” She is currently at work on her first (and second) poetry collections.

About You:

You likely have deep yearnings to advance your poetry writing and publishing goals.

Get published. Enter an MFA program.

Write poems that reflect your unique identity and voice, and reflect your dedication to craft.

And simply - but not so simple - write from your wholly human self.

But something’s getting in the way.

Lack of professional perspective outside of your spinning wheels.

Fears of offending people or your integrity once poems are public.

And your precious creative solitude getting frittered away by daily details.

What if you could fulfill your poetry yearnings and goals in ways that bring your wholly humanness both to the process and to the page?

Through a Poetry Mentorship, you will gain grounded guidance in what I call honing the craft and character of being wholly human— on the page and in the process.

Once we start, we will review your project status and refine your goals and aims. We’ll home in on what being wholly human means for you, your project, your process, and even your intended audience.

In our work together, you will gain a focused editorial review of our agreed upon number of pages, concrete guidance to build a self-sustainable writing practice, and a dedicated mentor who will help you refine your process, your poems, and your experience of success.

Together, we’ll move toward the beauty, belonging and connection possible as you embrace your humanity on and off the page, cultivating the self-compassion and awareness needed to shape and share your best poems and most meaningful creative work.