Grief and Healing: A Generative Poetry Workshop
An event every week that begins at 1:00 pm on Tuesday, repeating until July 28, 2026
In this two-session workshop, you are invited to enter poetry as a sacred space—one that can help you hold grief, memory, reflection, and renewal.
The days leading up to Tisha B’Av are among the most solemn in the Jewish calendar, a time when we turn toward loss: the destruction of the Temples, the experience of exile, and the many forms of brokenness that echo across generations and in our own lives. In our sessions before Tisha B’Av, you will read poems that dwell within sorrow and tenderness, exploring the textures of grief—personal and collective, spoken and unspoken. Through guided writing, you will have space to give language to what is often hidden, difficult to name, or held in silence.
Together, we will read poems by writers such as Gerald Stern, Marie Howe, Yehuda Amichai, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Frost—voices that accompany us through ache, longing, memory, and meaning-making, offering companionship as you begin to write your own poems.
Through poems that hold consolation and resilience, you will explore how healing can emerge—not by erasing grief, but by learning how to carry it with greater tenderness. Together, we will write toward restoration, compassion, and quiet renewal.
No prior experience with poetry is necessary—only curiosity and a willingness to read, reflect, and write.
This series will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience.
Dr Eve Grubin is the author of the book of poems Boat of Letters (Four Way Books). She is also the author of Morning Prayer (Sheep Meadow Press), The House of Our First Loving (Rack Press) and Grief Dialogue (Rack Press). Eve holds a PhD on the poetics of reticence, and she is a lecturer at NYU London and a tutor at the Poetry School.
