Engaging the Senses Foundation represents the ongoing dedication of four generations of women to celebrating, promoting, and strengthening the power of the arts to move human beings from habitual, everyday reality into a state of focused attention. We believe that art in its highest forms seeds in individuals and groups an awareness that can help ensure the healing of our vital, fragile, beautiful world. We understand that by supporting artists in their boldest and most courageous visions, we are assisting humanity to thrive. Through the creation of programs and events that illuminate the intersection of art and compassion, we honor the indivisibility of the human spirit and nature, and attend to the nurturing of both.
Poetry is just everything to me. Poetry is lie breathing and getting up in the morning and making love and all the good things that we still have in this life, despite the current political atmosphere.
– Margaret Randall
Now, as perhaps never before, we need poetry to help us navigate the increasingly bewildering social and political landscape and to remind us of our true nature and potential for peace and unity. In poetry, no territory is off limits. Through dramatic films, documentaries, direct support of poets and literary organizations, and presentations that bring poems and poets to underserved communities, children in need, prisoners, pensioners, schools, town halls, and libraries, Engaging the Senses Foundation is committed to The Word. Our goal is to help reanimate what was once a common familiarity with poetry so that its ability to fulfill our primal human need for beauty, and to serve as a portal to mindfulness, inspiration, connection, and transformation, can once again shine.
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley