After the Storm is an initial offering of poems from spiritual director and retreat facilitator, Peter M. Ivey, written in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, the devastating storm that ravaged Southern Appalachia and Ivey's hometown of Asheville, NC in the fall of 2024. In the months that followed, poetry became his open window through which to breathe out sorrow and confusion, a refuge from the heartache, a sanctuary of hope and divine light. For those who have endured their own floodwaters, watched their own forests fall, After the Storm offers a way through the muck, a glimmer of what-could-be, a hand to hold on the journey toward healing.
