Deena Metzger | Deena Metzger

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Deena Metzger

Deena (photographer: Jessica Shokrian)

A poet, novelist, essayist, storyteller, teacher, healer and medicine woman who has taught and counseled for over fifty years, in the process of which she has developed therapies (Healing Stories) which creatively address life threatening diseases, spiritual and emotional crises, as well as community, political and environmental disintegration.

Deena has spent a lifetime investigating Story as a form of knowing and healing. As a writer, she asks: Who do we have to become to find the forms and sacred language with which to meet these times?

She conducts training groups on the spiritual, creative, political and ethical aspects of healing and peacemaking, individual, community and global, drawing deeply on alliance with spirit, indigenous teachings and the many wisdom traditions. One focus is on uniting Western medical ways with indigenous medicine traditions.

Deena Metzger“To follow Story is to understand the path of healing. Each of our stories is a universe. Each one of us is living a story. To discover its shape and essence is essential to soul making.”

With writer/healer Michael Ortiz Hill, she has introduced the concept of Daré, meaning Council, to North America. The Topanga Daré relies on Council, alliance with Spirit and the natural world, ancestor work, indigenous and wisdom traditions and teachings, music healing, dream telling, divination, kinship, and story telling to achieve personal transformation, community healing and social change.

She is the author of many books, including the novels;  A Rain of Night Birds, (2017), La Negra y Blanca (2012 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature), Feral; Ruin and Beauty: New and Selected Poems; From Grief Into Vision: A Council; Doors: A Fiction for Jazz Horn; Entering the Ghost River: Meditations on the Theory and Practice of Healing; The Other Hand; What Dinah Thought; Tree: Essays and Pieces; The Woman Who Slept With Men to Take the War Out of Them; and Writing For Your Life.

There are those who are trying to set fire to the world,
we are in danger,
there is time only to work slowly,
there is no time not to love.

We are, once again, in a conflagration, once again at war. Once again, we must find the heart of peace, even now put out the fires, even those in our hearts.

DEENA METZGER
2.24.22

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New Books!

Click here for Deena’s latest book, La Vieja: A Journal of Fire.

Click here for news about Deena’s latest book of poetry; The Burden of Light. See videos of Deena reading from the book and also endorsements from Peter Levitt and Margo Berdeshevsky.

Hear Deena in conversation with Susan Eirich on this Earthfire Institute podcast.

Hear Deena interviewed by Mary-Charlotte Domandi on Radio Cafe.

Click here to hear Deena’s interview with Kris Welch on KPFA.

Click here to hear Deena Metzger in conversation with Stephan Hewitt, publisher of Hand to Hand.

Click here to hear Deena Metzger in conversation with David Edward Walker.

Click here to hear Deena Metzger in conversation with Nina Simons.

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