Poetry Salon

History

Our service began when our poet and founder, Jennifer Styperk, was writing her second book. Using transcripts from interviews with family members, she experienced firsthand the healing effects of transforming people's life stories into poetry. Jennifer began defining our unique bespoke poetry process and mission of Poetry Salon during her participation in several artistic collaborations. For one, Translate This, an art project much like the childhood game of telephone, consisted of eighteen artists translating a piece of art received within twenty-four hours. Over the course of eighteen days, eighteen artists challenged themselves to maintain the integrity of the message they received while transforming it into their own medium for the next artist to translate. Along the way she found a group of published poets also dedicated to translating people's thoughts, feelings, stories and experiences into the gift of poetry to honor people's lives.

Specialties

Commissioned poetry gifts written by published poets. We match you with the published poet best suited to write a poem inspired by the person or group you wish to honor. A Poetry Salon bespoke poem is a custom crafted work of art inspired by the stories you provide. We celebrate anniversaries, birthdays, retirement, corporate honors, new baby arrivals, in memoriam, just because and all of life's milestones.