Featured Friday | Meet Loretta Oleck

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Today’s Featured Writer is Loretta Oleck, a psychotherapist, photographer, and poet with a masters in creative writing from New York University. Check out our interview with her:

Fem: Why is poetry your medium of choice?

Loretta Oleck: It is very much about being in the moment, a way for me to process my feelings, a means to release energy, a tool to play, and a portal for me to enter and be with myself in a creative zone.  Poetry grounds me amid chaos, or attempts to make sense of personal, political, and societal injustices. Most significantly, poetry offers me a means to express myself in a less linear and more abstract way. It pushes me into the mysterious. Continue reading “Featured Friday | Meet Loretta Oleck”