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LIVE YOUR LEGEND // poetic alchemist :: performer :: curator :: programs director :: sacred space-holder

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Into the wild wonderland…

Celebrated as “a wildfire in a world of fluorescent bulbs,” a “poetic force of nature,” and “inspiration incarnate,” Queens, New York City native AUDREY DIMOLA is a poetic alchemist, performer, curator, sacred space-holder, community organizer, and mental health advocate, as well as Director of Public Programs at Long Island City’s Socrates Sculpture Park. // Thanks so much for stopping by! You’ll find all my work on this website, past and present, as well as new blog posts. Poetry, prose, videos, events, photos, articles – it’s all here. // STAY WILD, STAY GRATEFUL!

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ABOUT
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POETRY & PERFORMANCE
Poetry & prose, live performance videos

PROJECTS
Compass Project, Nature of the Muse, THE WILD PAPERS, #poetsinthewildnyc

EVENTS
Full list of upcoming & past events

ARTICLES & MEDIA
Features, reviews, interviews, essays in print & online; blog posts; video

CURATING
Original events I’ve curated like Nature of the Muse, Queens Literary Town Hall, How We Create & How We Cope: Intersections of Art & Mental Illness

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CONTACT ME!
Info on specialties & working together

MY BOOKS
My collections of poetry & prose

MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY
My heartwork on this planet

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My Books

I have four poetry & prose collections for sale, proudly self-published. Like what you read? Support an indie!

Decisions We Make While We Dream (2012)

TRAVERSALS (2014)

WILDLIGHT (2018)

THE BOOK OF LEGEND (2019)

Compass Project Poetry Stickers

As of February 2012, I've been sticking my Compass Project poetry and prose stickers up around NYC & sending them around the world! Have you seen some? Want some? Find out more!

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"An exploration of mental illness as an invitation to radical self-discovery instead of a disease with no cure." it means the world to me to be able to share this documentary film, CRAZYWISE, that has helped me so much on my own mental health journey-- and to do two events, starting tomorrow, world mental health day-- with the wholehearted support of art house astoria and astoria presbyterian church-- based expressly around creative reframing for mental health & mental illness, the ways we can take our journeys back into our own hands. please join us & RSVP on eventbrite: tinyurl.com/creativereframingnyc (link in bio). i'm grateful for my life and for the opportunity to speak on these literally life-changing and life-saving topics, with humans whose work and being i truly admire. #worldmentalhealthday #destigmatize #mentalhealthmatters #liveyourlegend #itsinqueens #astoryofastoria #gantrygram #astoriaqueens
i am packing up my life again for what feels like the thousandth time. move 7 or 8 in 4 years. after one of my lowest points-- which happened around this time in 2017-- i wrote this manifesto and taped it to my door. i can't believe i never fully learned about the animus archetype in women. how, with an under-developed or damaged animus we project it outwardly onto another person-- perpetually. it is a cycle that will never stop. unless we stop it. so many things in my life make sense. all the decisions i have made-- for nearly 2 decades. legend is being written, everyday. i thank myself for standing upright. sometimes that's the most you can do. 💔💖🙏
"we would like to have wings in order to fly toward god; yet it is not forbidden to go in that direction, even limping." // finally sending these books of legend out. thank you from my heart to everyone who supported the work from the day of its release, now 1 month ago. want your own copy? link in bio. ❤️ // these days are mighty difficult, but i Believe. 🕊️ #thebookoflegend #persist
'we wish to live inside the safety of the laws. we fear to choose. jesus insists on choice. the one thing he condemns utterly is avoiding the choice. to choose is to commit yourself. and to commit yourself is to run the risk-- is to run the risk of failure, the risk of sin, the risk of betrayal. but jesus can deal with all of those. forgiveness he never denies us. the man who makes a mistake can repent. but the man who hesitates, who does nothing, who buries his talent in the earth-- with him he can do nothing.' -- to the wonder. all this time i thought my ultimate goal was to prove to myself i was capable of being in a committed, honest relationship-- after so many years of dishonesty, living in the in-betweens. to heal the wound of the father, of the sacred family, of the deep wounds i had left in all the men i loved, in our relationships. i see those stories now for what they are. i realize now that the step i'm currently taking-- or rather, the way i am navigating that step-- is the one way to commit to the one person i haven't committed to fully-- myself. the way of legend, the way of healing, The Way-- does not always make linear sense. you cannot heal what the ancestors weren't able to do by trying to do the same thing, in the same way. heal thyself, first-- as they were never able to do. and from there will emanate the true healing. for me it is not to mend the fracture in the divine relationship. it is to mend the fracture, first-- in holy relationship to Self. #homecoming #whyiwakeearly #godslight
sometimes the key to it all is the one thing that has been binding your hands all along. i look at her-- this winged woman-- the key is behind her back and not in front. obvious and yet out of reach. it's such a revelation to me in this part of my life to feel, to know-- i don't have to suffer. i don't have to suffer. i don't have to expend this massive amount of energy trying to make something work that clearly doesn't, or can't, or shouldn't. sometimes we need to stop trying in one way-- to successfully press forward in other ways. the revelations i have seen in these days have been deep and profound-- returning to the vagabondic lifestyle, returning to the wilderness of chance and daring and spirit-- i am reminded of what truly matters. self-reliance. openness. flow. eternal hope. #onward #semprelibera #intothewild 🔑🕊️🌿❤️✨
my life changed forever 9.24.19. when you go to your father's homeland literally toting the book of your legend with intention to heal and rewrite the lineage-- and then you return and life turns completely upside down.. don't be surprised. i've been called back into the wilderness on what is perhaps my greatest quest to date. but i'm not afraid.. luck is on my side. 🐲🙃😍🐾🌿🙏 #trust #providence #semprelibera
thank you from my heart of hearts to one of the greatest spirits and deepest kindreds i've ever met, joel 💛 this wkend spent oceanside, in wisdom & intuition, was exactly what i needed to set off on the path 🌊 this first foto is of siddhartha & govinda 🦋 joel first found the moth tossed in the tide and struggling, stuck.. he picked him up and he rode with us all thru our beach walk.. then on the way back-- i found a butterfly. and helped it in the same way 🙏 what are the odds the symbolism of each creature points directly to joel and i's journeys, opposites and yet twins? the universe speaks in divine providence. all you have to do is listen. all you have to do is heed the call to Go. 'if there is a path-- it is someone else's path-- and you are not on the adventure." --joseph campbell #thankyou #iloveyou #twins 💛🔥💛 #intothewild and also #crocodileinitiation 🐊🐊🐊
so be it 💀🔥⚡🙏 #beginagain #homecoming
"we must re-learn to be alone." "i was in harmony with it, melted into the universe, lost in it, as one is lost in a canticle of praise, swelling from an unknown crowd in a cathedral." -- gift from the sea. there are times in which we feel our legend is everything but what our legend actually IS. my heart is Open & not aching. i am guided by my fierce prayer-- TO SEE & BE SEEN. i am held by my solitude, the universe & community. i am at peace with my journey, my decisions & my darkness. i accept what is necessary. to come back Home. 💙🌊💙
altar to the firebird. 🔥🕊️ 'You got flames for wings, and at stake is the claim of your wild speech  fake is the flurry try to keep you in a bind,  shake shake shake it off like the way the dragon rides out of your cave you’re a beast of another dawn  like a wake on the current that her voice will  carry you for another lifetime  keep your sight set right, leading with the  sound of the arrow, fly' -@aylanereo #homecoming
this is The Work. hi all-- as many of you know, the realities of my journey have led me to become an outspoken advocate for the creative reframing of mental illness. for World Mental Health Day 2019, i will be screening the documentary @crazywisefilm (which explores what can be learned from people around the world who have turned their psychological crisis into a positive transformative experience) and coming together with others in the community for sharing, activities + discussion regarding alternative pathways for wellbeing including storytelling, movement, floatation therapy, healing traditions + mindfulness. please join us + spread the word. FREE EVENTS 💖 #mentalhealthmatters #mentalillness #worldmentalhealthday #mentalhealth #astoryofastoria #queenscapes #itsinqueens #endthestigma #reclamation
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