Balancing Personal & Political Grief With the Pursuit of Joy - A Poetry Workshop

In this workshop open to poets of any level of experience, we'll study a few published poems for the way their authors approach the challenge of balancing grief and the pursuit of joy.

We'll look at beloved poet Jane Hirshfield's "six concentrations of poetry" in order to grow our consciousness of what we have to work with in our own poem-writing, regardless of subject matter.  Then we'll have a twenty minute silent writing period, followed by voluntary-only sharing of our draft products.

Funding provided by the Nell B. Currie and Antoinette McNamara Endowed Fund.