Prairie Lights, Virtual Book Signing (May 25, 2021, Archived Recording)

“POETRY RX — How Poetry Can Heal and Bring Joy to Your Life”

Prairie Lights Virtual Event: “POETRY RX—How Poetry Can Heal and Bring Joy to Your Life

100% of the author’s book sale proceeds went to the Resilient Warrior Program to help reduce the epidemic of suicides among U.S. military veterans.

To purchase from Prairie Lights and receive a copy signed by the author, please purchase through one of these links

Note: There are limited amounts of signed copies

Purchase Paperback Purchase Hardcover

“Poems, I now realize, thanks to Dr. Rosenthal, can be a literary panacea for the pandemic.”—Jane Brody, Personal Health Columnist, New York Times

VIRTUAL BOOK SIGNING: The David Lynch Foundation and Prairie Lights Bookstore cordially invite you to “POETRY RX: How Poetry Can Heal and Bring Joy to Your Life” featuring world-renowned psychiatrist, Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D., Prairie Lights Bookstore owner and published poet Jan Weissmiller, along with moderator Bob Roth.

THIS EVENT HAS PASSED: Tuesday, May 25 • 7 pm (CDT)

OVERVIEW: Imagine your therapist writing a prescription for “Hope is the thing with feathers” by Emily Dickinson or a Shakespeare sonnet or “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas—before prescribing an anxiety medication…

Dr. Norman Rosenthal is that therapist! World-renowned for his pioneering NIH research on seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and for developing the light therapy intervention to treat it, Dr. Rosenthal’s new book, Poetry Rx: How 50 Inspiring Poems Can Heal and Bring Joy to Your Life (G&D Media, May 4, 2021), delivers potent medicine—without side effects.

“As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has closed down in many ways, depriving us of joy, companionship, love and adventure,” says Dr. Rosenthal. “Against this backdrop of loss and hardship, we are seeking novel remedies, and poetry is a surprisingly powerful remedy, not just for the moment but for our entire life. Poetry can serve both as a balm and a vaccine for the soul.” 

Poetry Rx published on May 4 during Mental Health Awareness Month, and on the cusp of National Poetry Month, which marked its 25th annual celebration in April.

ADVANCE PRAISE

“Dr. Rosenthal, a renowned psychiatric researcher and clinician, has given us a gift with Poetry Rx. He takes us on a journey through the varieties of human experience and shows us specifically how poetry has the power to help us understand ourselves and to heal. The wonderful effect of Rosenthal’s humanity and lucid analysis is to make us feel that our own experiences are universal and that we are not alone.”
—Richard A. Friedman, M.D., Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Director of Psychopharmacology Clinic, Weill Cornell Medical College

“Poetry Rx is a great read, entertaining as it teaches. These are, after all, poems the doctor ordered. But what a doctor! And what poems!”
—Peter Sacks, Professor of English, Harvard