The Mystery of Grief: Writing into the Loss
Wednesday, March 6
7-9pm ET, 6-8pm CT, 5-7pm MT and 4-6pm PT
Zoom, $15
Hosted by Evermore: America’s voice in advancing social change for all bereaved people
When we lose loved ones, writing can be a powerful tool for helping us remember them, helping us re-encounter the world without them, and helping us re-know ourselves as the loss transforms us.
In this two-hour online program, Evermore Poet Laureate Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer will offer a few suggestions for writing. Together, we will read poems about grief and discuss them. We will have chances to do our own writing, there will be optional time for sharing what we wrote, and we will have time to reflect on the effect writing has on us.
The poems we read and write won’t be able to hold all the feelings, but they will offer us a way to touch our grief, to connect with the lives and deaths of our loved ones, to give voice to our anguish, to find compassion for each other, to fall in love with the world that is left, to express our heartache, and to explore the landscape of our hearts. Recording will be sent to everyone who registers.
REGISTER HERE
If you need an angel ticket or have any questions, please contact jena@evermore.org
Other versions of this workshop will be held on the first Wednesday of the month on June 5, September 4, and December 4.
What is it that keeps us alive?
Whatever it is, it’s harder now
to see myself
as separate from it.
Honest and hopeful and true poem!
This Am huge streaks of a RED sunrise felt like the “IT” We keep showing up in openness! Thanks for such a beautiful poem! Initially i thought sigh not another poem on ‘brokeness’ but in a matter of minutes such an attitude turned around….
j
we keep showing up in openness!