All of them will raise funds for these nonprofits …
June 3
Poetry as Portal
hosted by WholeHeart
WholeHeart facilitators frequently use meaningful and evocative poetry in their programs and events as portals into deeper listening. Poetry can be a powerful tool to help participants listen to themselves and access new reservoirs of inner knowing as they hold life questions. This new offering, Poetry As Portal, will highlight some of the poets whose work is among our favorites! Each 90-minute evening will feature: 3-4 original poems read aloud by the poet; a conversation with the poet about their own listening process, as well as some fun background about the pieces they have produced; reflection and small-group time with one of the featured poems to spark our own insights; community sharing to nourish our personal practices.
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June 5
The Mystery of Grief: Writing Into the Loss
hosted by Evermore
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.
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June 26
Escaping Into the Present: Poetry as a Practice for Reseeing the World
hosted by ONE ART
The act of writing a poem can bring us more closely to the essence of the moment, can help us exist in immediacy. In this two-hour online playshop, both practical and playful, we’ll sharpen our observational skills to engage with the poetry that lives in everything—objects, locations, situations, conversations. We’ll practice meeting what Hopkins calls “thisness.” As Mary Oliver writes, “the world offers itself to your attention, over and over.” Let’s meet it together, pen in hand. All levels of experience welcome.
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