This program has been cancelled.

Poetry is recognized as an important way of dealing with loss, grief, and coming to terms with it and its aftermath. In this workshop, you'll explore poems centered on grief and loss and write your own poem. You can share it with the class or keep it for yourself.

The mystery of death – whether one imagines it as a great nothingness, a transformation to another state, or a prelude to the next incarnation – has inspired poets to some of their most profound meditations. Each of us has our own relationship with death, a relationship that starts in childhood with our first awareness of it. And throughout our lives, we experience the grief and loss that another death brings. Writing can be a way of working through those emotions, an act of catharsis on the page. Nothing can erase grief or speed up the process of healing, but writing can keep you aware as you go through it, and offer some solace. Through the writing, you will unearth ideas, insights, questions, memories. These can be starting points for poems that express your loss, or explore philosophical concerns, or vividly recreate those who have died. Led by Cheshire poet laureate Pat Mottola.

Registration required.