How it all started…
The House of Poets was founded with a realization… every time I was scared to share a piece of my story but felt called to do it anyways, that’s when people resonated the most. I got tons of messages, all saying “I thought I was the only one” and that got me thinking, “I wish I could put all of these people into one place so they could feel how connected they truly are.”
Many of us feel isolated, when really we just haven’t given ourselves the opportunity to be seen, and when we do, there’s this healing realization that everything we think isolates us is actually the thing that bridges us to other people. We just need to create a safe space for that connection to happen, and that is the foundation of the House of Poets.
From this, a ton of beautiful expansive elements began to grow.
Writing offers this tender and honest space to share our stories, to share pieces of ourselves… and the act of writing is a powerful place to explore who you are as a person, to develop your self concept, to honour your creative nature. Writing may be a casual creative practice, but it also offers a deep transformation that slowly takes place, bringing more awareness, presence and honesty into the artist's life.
I just wanted to write because it helped me to move through and honour my emotions, and from this practice, I accidentally cultivated a deeper sense of awareness, a profound appreciation for my emotions, and a rooted idea of who I am as a person. Each of these things has allowed me to create a life I love. I thought I was just writing, but really I was unleashing my creativity, and it just so happened that my creativity helped me create a life that deeply aligned with what I value.
The House of Poets is a place where people get to explore writing through both a playful and introspective lens. It’s a place to learn about how creative energy weaves itself into the way you create your life experience, and how to reclaim your creativity as the fun, powerful, expansive tool it is. It’s a community that alchemizes isolation into genuine connection and brings the joy back into self development.
This isn’t a self-help place that tells you to be better. It’s a home that holds you safely just as you are, so that you naturally become a better version of you because you have accessed a deeper level of self love, creative freedom and human connection.
I extend my hand and invite you to join us, it’s really something special!
— Meghan Bay
Meet your Hosts
Meghan Bay
Hey! I’m Meghan!
I’ve always been a dreamer with big emotions, which is beautiful but also deeply overwhelming… I never knew what to do with all these ideas and feelings, so they built up inside me, making me feel isolated and hopeless. But that started to change when I started writing…
In a time where I didn’t think my dreams were possible, writing became my fuel. I was familiar with the feeling of being too much, hoarding my emotions, minimizing my dreams… and when I read poetry, that all softened, I felt the soul of the artist, I felt the rebellion against familiarity, I felt my emotions line up with theirs… it showed me that emotional freedom is possible.
Through writing, I have built an honest relationship with myself, I’ve gained awareness that supports me in creating a life in tune with my desires, I’ve claimed my passions, and learned to appreciate myself for who I am. All of this has paved the foundation for me to create a life I’m in love with.
Because in a world where it’s so easy to ignore your spirit because it’s behind a fog of expectations, busy days, and a closed heart… writing gave me a space to clarify the vision of who I am and what I believe in. And when I began to see things clearly, it wasn’t easy to ignore anymore.
Writing has connected me to myself, to my spirituality, to people all over the world. It has healed and empowered me, and everyone who’s a witness. It has taken isolation, and turned it into connection, it has given me a safe space to be who I really am. It hasn’t changed my entire life, but it has given me the courage to, and that’s powerful beyond measure.
It would be impossible to experience such magic, and not share it with you…
And that is why I created the House of Poets.
Corynn Craig
Hey! I’m Corynn.
As a sensitive being with an often overwhelming internal world, writing is how I’ve learned to truly be myself and accept myself.
Before entering my twenties, writing was a chore — something with infinite rules and restrictions. But when I left high school, I realized that the best writing is messy, just like life is. I realized that writing doesn’t have to tidy up my life, it just has to mirror it.
That realization unlocked a whole world for me.
I remember sitting in my first-ever poetry class in college, my poem drenched in my own sweat as I waited to read it in front of the class.
It was terrifying — to bring something so vulnernable, so quirky, so out of alignment with other writing I had done in the classroom before, and read it in front of my thirty-something peers.
But the terror quickly left my body when I realized — it’s much scarier to hold our words in than to read them aloud — especially the messy ones.
With a trembling voice, I read my poem and my classmates returned with so much encouragement.
I exhaled for the first time in years of holding my breath.
When I’ve allowed myself to be seen in my fullest expression — that’s when I’ve tasted true freedom. And writing allows me to express myself in full.
So writing has become so much more to me than pairing words that sound nice together, though that can be part of the fun. It’s how I exercise self-love. That thing that gives me the courage to exist as my fullest self in a world that is prone to criticizing those of us who do.
My hope is that the House of Poets can provide the kindness and the encouragement that you and I both needed when we were first learning to embody our most authentic expression, but did not receive. That it can be the safe and soft corner to land when you’ve got something to say, and need someone to listen. To remind you that who you are is important, that what you have to say is important, and that your expression is so deserving of being lovingly witnessed and wildly celebrated.
Welcome.