Have you ever noticed what happens in a room when a poem is read? A hush settles over the crowd as though a luminary or wise sage had arrived. Author Kim Rosen would say that a poem is exactly that—a beacon or guiding light helping us to see more clearly that which is just out of our conscious sight. In the darkest moment of her life, when even the most profound psychological and spiritual teachings could not reach her, she found poetry. And now, decades later, she’s written a book, Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words to help us get a glimpse of what she sees and to perhaps also
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