Presented in partnership with CityLit Festival. 

CityLit Project joins the Enoch Pratt Free Library in presenting the CityLit Festival - Reimagined: a virtual celebration of the literary arts

This year’s Festival is a month-long engagement with premier poets and writers with special events each week and a daylong event on March 20, 2021.

Two teachers guide participants through the processing of grief with the lamp of creative writing. Using poetry, fiction, and memoir prompts and guided meditation, the teachers will help students navigate the swamp of sorrow and travel on to nurturing healing.

Both teachers battle grief from the loss of loved ones but are not social workers or ministers.

Gayle Danley is the CEO of Poetry Pros, Former National and International Poetry Slam Champion, and the Maryland Library Association Poet of the Year. For more information, visit gayledanleypoet.com 

Kimberley Lynne is a writer and a teacher. Over 40 of her plays have been produced and her ghost folklore novel published. She’s taught screenwriting, playwriting and composition for seventeen years. For more information, visit http://kimberleylynne.wordpress.com

Recommended reading:

• Hope Edelman, The AfterGrief, Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss
• Jan Warner, Grief Day by Day