bio

Katy Hawkins PhD lives in Philadelphia where she teaches somatics and poetry - what what she calls "Moving Poetics." She is a literature professor and a lifelong Quaker, whose teaching is characterized by a longing for the genuine integration of body, mind, and spirit. Her classes investigate ways to repair the disconnect between thinking, feeling, and intuitive knowing in the individual soma, and in our culture more broadly. Her recent book, Thinking Feelingly: A Somatic Approach to Poetry, was published this November. The book selects poems for each week of the calendar year, engages their artistry in re-imagining a seasonal holiday or shift in nature, and then offers an embodied practice that might help us truly feel their beauty and power.