Poetic Healing

About the Book

Many of us have experienced moments in our lives when it seemed our entire world was about to collapse.  Yet, something or someone gave us the hope, courage, and strength to endure these difficult times.  Perhaps even more important was the growth process, that, (in retrospect), we unconsciously went through as a result of these extremely difficult periods.  As we learn to deal with difficult situations, we tend to appreciate those particular inspirations of hope that aided us in our most troublesome times.  For instance, after the horrific and tragic murder of his only son, the famous comedian and accomplished actor Bill Cosby was asked how he was coping with such an emotional, painful, and personal lose?  He responded by saying he found comfort via a poem entitled 'IF' by Rudyard Kipling.  Sometimes during our darkest hour, we find emotional and spiritual stability through an unsuspecting resource.  This spontaneous inspiration may come in the form of a person perhaps a stranger, a sudden event, or we may simply remember an old saying or phrase.  Nonetheless, it provides us with the strength to keep holding on, when every inch of fiber in our being is so desperately telling us to let go! 

About the Author

K. Renard hails from the metropolis of Detroit Michigan.  He is a product of an extended family that consisted of a twin sister, his mother, an aunt, one cousin, and both maternal grandparents.  Discipline, hard work, and respect were instilled at an early age.

K. Renard is a graduate of North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science (Magna Cum Laude) and a Master of Science both in the discipline of Criminal Justice.  In 1994 he went to work for International Business Machines (IBM).  By December of 1997 he had become the single most qualified minority in corporate security for IBM on the east coast.  As a result, he was promoted to Senior Lead Security Analyst, jointly overseeing assets in excess of 1 billion dollars!

In 1998 this decorated Marine Corps veteran suffered a major tragedy in his life.  It was during this very tumultuous period that the Lord spoke to him with regard of easing some of the misery, pain, anger, and hate.  K. Renard knew he was a gifted writer, but he never fathomed that poetry would help him to regain his station in life, while contemporaneously serving as a healing mechanism for so many others.

Today K. Renard is an independent academic consultant who designs after-school programs for ‘at-risk’ students in the metropolitan Detroit area.  He also provides community serve work by formulating ‘grants’ for various organizations in the community in which he serves.  He looks forward to spending time with his two sons D’Juan age 23 and Kevin Jr. age 10.  He looks forward to his next literary project(s), that being a series of child books, as well as volume two of Poetic Healing due out soon.