about

mythopoetry.com: the website of mythopoet, Stephanie Pope

.........

."The difference between sanity and madness depends on
...our sense of fiction." -James Hillman, Healing Fiction (111)


.............like

............ an ovum passing through passes from within
...............and when it passes it passes in two:
   
...............into language and
..........................into the language of its many skins


.........................................-Stephanie Pope
.................................................from The Alice Series

Teacher, essayist, poet and cultural mythologer, Stephanie has a BA in education from Walsh University and a master's degree in mythological studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She teaches DreamWork & Musing Life on line through mythopoetry.com. Between 2010-2012 she is editing, producing and publishing Mythopoetry Scholar Ezine vol 1-3.

Stephanie works mythopoetics on line @mythopoetry.com where she explores, traces and reveals dominant mythic images and mythemes in psyche-making at work between cosmos and culture today.


Stephanie is published in numerous poetry journals including the premier issues of Literary House and A Hudson View International where her poetry receives Pushcart nominations between 2007-2010. Stephanie published her first poetry volume, Like A Woman Falling in 2004 (now out of print)and is currently working on her first book of essays and a second poetry volume.

Additional Reading

Blogs:

The Poet In Culture /Maggie Macary

A Depth Perspective In The World/Maggie Macary

The Dominant Fiction/Maggie Macary

Mythology In Poetry/Reginald Shepherd

Myth, Mythic Literacy, & Contemporary Culture/ Robert Philen

Books:

Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry/ Robert Pinsky

The Poet In Culture: The Tenth Muse/Albert Gelpi

Essays/Musing Life:

The Poetic Impulse/Stephanie Pope