Deborah Shapiro

Debbie Shapiro has been nursing and now nurturing the poet within for a long time. Poetry at times, threatened to die within her due to devaluating its importance in her life but lately she has recognized that poetry, for her, is one of the most intimate and intense communications a being can try to share with someone else: a way to share universes of being, observing,hoping and dreaming. Using the aesthetics of poetry, Deborah strives to enlighten and enliven herself and hopefully others. Having studied many years as an Educator and a Minister, and more recently embarking on public speaking through Toastmasters, she is working to incorporate her abilities as a poet and writer to bring about increased understanding and improved conditions by tapping into a Spirit of Play.