Voices of the Grieving Heart

May 19, 2021
by Ryukan

Veteran postcard poet NanLeah Mick is helping with this poetry event:

Voices of the Grieving Heart
A Poetry Reading by Six Contributors
with Mike Bernhardt, Kris Kington-Barker and John Fox
~ Free Online Event ~
Sunday, May 23, 1:30 – 3:00 pm Pacific
and/or
Sunday, June 6, 4:00-5:30 pm Pacific
with Time to Explore This Profoundly Personal
and Universal Experience of Loss and Grief
Voices of the Grieving Heart was first published in 1994. This new expanded edition contains over 160 selected poems, essays, and images by 83 contributors who share their journeys through loss, grief, and transformation, including:
  • Deaths due to suicide, miscarriage, COVID-19, and other causes
  • Reflections on grief, 30 years later, from first-edition contributors
  • Prompts and blank pages for readers to add their own poetry
There will be time and room for questions and conversation. Stories we have to speak within community, matter. Mike Bernhardt, John Fox and Kris Kington-Barker will support and listen.

Poetry Postcard Fest circleAnd registration for the 15th Poetry Postcard Fest ends July 18, 2021. See:

www.popo.submittable.com

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