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SUMMARY:Writing Memoir from Photos
DESCRIPTION:Mondays\, May 4\, 11 & 18\, 2026\n1-2:30 p.m.\n$154\n \n\nPhotographs are powerful vessels of memory—small artifacts that live in albums\, frames\, and on our phones\, holding moments of joy\, longing\, love\, and loss. \nIn this three-week memoir writing workshop\, led by Lisa Grunberger\, we will explore how photos can serve as meaningful starting points for writing about the past. Together\, we’ll consider how images invite stories forward\, helping us approach both cherished memories and more difficult ones with care. \nAlongside our own writing\, we will engage with reflections on photography from writers such as Susan Sontag and John Berger. Through guided prompts and gentle exercises\, participants will use personal photographs to generate new creative work\, including short “micro-memoirs” that can stand alone or grow into longer pieces. \nEach session will include time for sharing\, discussion\, and supportive feedback. Working with photos can be a tender\, accessible way to honor our experiences and deepen the stories we carry. \nAll sessions will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience. \nPoetry Pushcart nominee and Temple University English Professor Lisa Grunberger is a first-generation American writer. Her award-winning poetry book For the Future of Girls is a lyrical reflection on life as a woman\, a mother\, and a daughter of Holocaust survivors. It was nominated for an Eric Hoffer Independent Press award. She’s the author of Yiddish Yoga: Ruthie’s Adventures in Love\, Loss and the Lotus Position (Harper Collins); Her poems appear in Breaking the Glass: A Contemporary Jewish Poetry Anthology (The Laurel Review\, 2023). A widely published writer\, her work has appeared in The New York Times\, Newsday\, The Southern Review\, The Paterson Literary Review\, Mudfish\, Bridges\, Of the Book Press\, The Jewish Literary Journal\, and Manna Songs: Stories of Jewish Culture and Heritage (ELJ Editions)\, Crab Orchard Review\, Mom Egg Review\, The Baffler. She’s been translated into Slovenian\, Russian\, Spanish\, Yiddish.\n\nALMOST PREGNANT\, her play about infertility and motherhood\, is published by Next Stage Press; Her play\, Alexa Talks to Rebecca won the Audience Choice Award at the Squeaky Bicycle Theatre. She’s working on a memoir called Me and My Makers: A Memoir of Adoption\, Genes and Love.\n\n\n      \n        \n      \n    \n 
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SUMMARY:Writing Postcards From the Heart
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, June 17\, 2025 \n12-1:30 p.m. EDT\n \n\n\nWrite your own postcards to a loved one\, to your younger self\, to an artist you love\, or to even to G-d in this interactive writing workshop with Poet and Professor Lisa Grunberger. Jewish thought has much to teach us about anger and compassion. For example\, Rebbe Nachman taught that the best antidote for one’s anger is a compassionate heart. In Hebrew\, the word for “compassion” (rachamim)\, shares the same root as the words for “womb” (rechem) and for “tomorrow” (machar).\n \nWriting is cathartic\, a ritual that helps us process complex emotions like grief and anger. You are encouraged to bring photos of people\, alive or not\, you might want to write postcards to so their energy is close. We will have time to share our spontaneous postcard writing with each other; you will be surprised at the creative writing that emerges with these short postcard-writing exercises. A postcard can spark the first lines of a novel\, a song\, or even heal a relationship. Discover how writing from the emotional “place” of pain\, love\, curiosity\, anger\, or grief can create a bridge to heal.\n\n\n\n \nThis session will be recorded and sent to participants. We encourage live attendance for you to get the most out of the experience.\n \n\n\nPushcart nominee and Temple University English Professor Lisa Grunberger is a first-generation American writer. Her award-winning poetry book\, I am dirty (Moonstone Press)\, and Born Knowing (Finishing Line Press)\, are lyrical reflections on life as a woman\, a mother\, and a daughter of Holocaust survivors.  Her book\, Yiddish Yoga: Ruthie’s Adventures in Love\, Loss and the Lotus Position (Harper Collins)\, about a widowed grandmother who does yoga to help her grieve\, is currently being adapted as a musical. Almost Pregnant\, her play about infertility and assisted reproductive technologies\, is published by Next Stage Press. \nHer poetry book\, Mercy Wombs\, was the finalist in Settlement House American Poetry Prize for first-generation poets. She is a widely published poet whose work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Paterson Literary Review\, Mudfish\, The Drunken Boat\, Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal\, Philadelphia Poets\, Paroles des Jour\, Dialogi\, Crab Orchard Review\, Mom Egg Review\, The Baffler\, and Fine Linen Press. Her poems have been translated into Hebrew\, Slovenian\, Russian\, Spanish and Yiddish. \n\n  \n 
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