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Poetry can provide comfort and boost mood during grief, trauma and stress. The use of metaphors, words and rhymes help make sense of the world…
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Roshanak M. HeraviĀ is a Toronto-based painter, muralist and artist. She received her BFA from OCAD university and her work is influenced by Cecily Brown, Picasso…
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Mollia May is an aspiring artist who discovered how to use the therapeutic power of art to better understand and express herself from an early…
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John Keats (1795- 1821), a notable English Romantic Poet, was a central figure in the second generation of Romantic poets. Keats had bouts of depression…
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Mohid Shaikh is an artist who has been creating art since they were a young child. As it has become a form of escape and…