Vivé Griffith

I am a poet and essayist, a teacher and facilitator, a builder of community. I create spaces for people to explore their intellectual and creative lives and to connect with others. I believe in the power of poetry and story to help us reflect, heal, and live our best lives.

For nearly a decade I directed Free Minds, an affiliate of the Clemente Course in the Humanities offering free college humanities classes to those who have faced barriers to the classroom, and I’ve worked with Clemente since 2017. I earned a certificate in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University and create workshops to support patients, caregivers, and clinicians through reading, writing, and storytelling. My work has appeared in the Washington Post, The Sun, River Teeth, and Oxford American. 

I am a zealous sharer of poems and a maker of first-class soups.

Listen to my podcast conversation about poetry and a meaningful life. Subscribe to This Week in the Poetry Box for a peek into what’s in my curbside poetry box right now. Subscribe to my Substack, A Hill in Austin: Notes from a Street in an American Boomtown, for my reflections on this changing city I’ve called home for nearly 25 years.