The Elegy Project

“No sibling, no mother. Her / paws were dry magic beads. I touched them.”

bewitched by this poem. Feral, @jessicacuello.bsky.social

A Brief Art History of Grief Scholar Roger Luckhurt’s richly illustrated book chronicles the ways we memorialize the dead across the world, tracing burial practices from Ancient Greece to the present day.

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Thanks, dear Eve!! ❤️

The Elegy Project on National Poetry Day. Natasha Trethewey's "Myth" shows up streetside in Montreal.

The Elegy Project on National Poetry Day. The always fabulous Gaby Calvocoressi appears with "Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you" in Somerville.
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The Elegy Project on National Poetry Day. Diane Seuss' sonnet from frank finds its way to Mussoorie, India.
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The Elegy Project on National Poetry Day. Here Beth Ann Fennelly appears in Reykjavik with her beautiful "Two Sisters, One Thinner, One Better Dressed."

The Elegy Project on National Poetry Day. Here Sara Eliza Johnson's "Elegy Surrounded by Water" shows up in Reykjavik.

The Elegy Project on National Poetry Day. Here a favourite by Kaveh Akbar appears in a gnome bar in Reykjavik.

Alison Benis White, "Postcards to M."

Chelsea Dingman, "Microchimerism"
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Kaveh Akbar, "Orchids Are Sprouting From the Floorboards"

Natasha Trethewey, "Myth"

Aria Aber, "Dirt and Light"

Diane Seuss, from frank: sonnets
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Noor Hindi, "Against Death"

Sara Eliza Johnson, "Elegy Surrounded by Water"
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GRIEF'S UNDERMUSIC: An Elegy Workshop & Reading featuring Peter Gizzi The Woodberry Poetry Room is proud to partner with The Elegy Project to host a two-part event, featuring an afternoon elegy-writing workshop and an evening reading by Peter Gizzi,...

And this last spring now, but still thinking about everyone who came together for the Elegy Workshop at the Woodberry, the poetry, the conversations. And Peter Gizzi's extraordinary reading from his Fierce Elegy that fine and beautiful night.

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And this now two years on, but The Elegy Project so fortunate to have put our heads together with the Woodberry Poetry Room.

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Perspective | The poetic elegies that can help us make space for our pandemic grief Elegy performs an essential caretaking, both intimate and public, of our dead

Three years on now, but The Elegy Project is still making space for grief, for poetry, for our shared lyric communities.

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