Writing the Poem of Grief through Food with Preeti Vangani
Sat, Aug 01
|Virtual on Zoom
Explore how food can help you write more vivid, emotionally layered poems of grief, memory, and longing. In this generative workshop, writers will use meals, cooking, and shared rituals to open new pathways into elegy, deepen personal memory, and draft new work in a supportive space.
Time & Location
Aug 01, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM CDT
Virtual on Zoom
About the Event
Faiz Ahmed Faiz writes: The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved. Entering the elegy through the portal of food strikes an intimacy with the dead and the dying.
In this generative workshop, we will look at poems by Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Li Young Lee, Sharon Olds, Ross Gay, among others, and explore the possibilities of food, of meals shared together, in remembering those we've lost.
What physical and emotional rooms can memories of cooking, eating or feasting communally help open up. How can they resurrect joy in a poem of longing and mourning? Participants will be encouraged to think of foods' social, political and historical connections as they write new drafts.
Writers at all levels of their practice are welcome to join.
PREETI VANGANI is a poet & writer from Bombay based in San Francisco. She is the author of…
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Writing the Poem of Grief
Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82043762750?pwd=XaaEAbn7114sqx78YrrPNvzTgTnrxX.1 Meeting ID: 820 4376 2750 Passcode: 628299
$40.00
+$1.00 ticket service fee
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