Lucille Clifton's poetry is the most sustained body of healing poetics in the African American tradition, using verse to process cancer, loss, abuse, and historical trauma while insisting on the body's and the spirit's capacity for recovery and wholeness; A student poet practising healing poetics might write about a specific therapeutic practice, meditation, therapy, community gathering, creative work, as both subject and formal model, allowing the poem's structure to enact the healing process it describes; Sonia Sanchez's "Does Your House Have Lions?" is an extended healing poem about AIDS, addiction, and family rupture that uses formal variation between voices and poetic forms to represent different stages of a healing process; A poet might write about the specific healing work of naming, the way that writing a poem about an experience that has been too painful to address directly can begin to metabolise trauma that has been lodged in the body as silence; Nikky Finney's attention to the bodies of Black women, their specific vulnerabilities and strengths, their histories of damage and survival, constitutes a form of healing poetics that insists on care, specificity, and the poet's responsibility to her subjects; A contemporary poet might write about healing poetics in relation to community trauma, exploring how collective poems, elegies, and testimonial verses can contribute to a community's processing of violence, displacement, or loss in ways that neither suppress grief nor allow it to become the only story