EXPLORE THE LANGAUGE AND LYRIC OF LOSS
There are no words for the way loss undoes us, yet as poets we will never stop reaching for those words. Writing can keep us warm in times of grief. Join award-winning Kelly Grace Thomas for a generative workshop that explores how we can lyric loss and use tensions to examine heaviness, hope, grace, gratitude, and grief. In this workshop we will write poems to put into language what the gone have given us and explore the emotionality of the world with and without them. Expect to read and discuss poems by Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Jenny Qi, sam sax, and more.*
In this workshop, participants will:
Examine the relationship between grief, gratitude, and grace
Use surprise and contrast to create tension and nuance
Explore metaphor as a tool to evoke and hold emotion
Leave with three new drafts that honor and ode
* reading material subject to change