Belmont Art Collective

Seminar | Complicated Grief: Exploring the Long-Form Elegy
Mondays, 6-7pm
July 13-August 31
Taborspace Library
$240

What is left but this:
the compulsion to tell.
—Mary Jo Bang

Praise, lamentation, consolation, alienation—the elegy has as many facets as grief itself, as many tensions and anxieties. An elegy publicly declares what is privately felt. It constructs from destruction. But what new meanings arise when elegy is stretched across a series, a book, a long period of time? How does a long form complicate grief, positioning mourning against melancholia, release against the refusal to accept, love against obsession?

Join Belmont Art Collective's Karolinn Fiscaletti for an eight-week seminar exploring the long-form elegy. Key takeaways include:

• A deeper understanding of writing about grief
• Exposure to historical and contemporary poetry and essays
• Access to course readings and materials, included with registration
• Community-building through guided small-group discussion and activities
• A seminar visit from a Portland-area poet
• A certificate of course completion

This course is open to anyone 18+ with an interest in poetry. Expertise is not required! Seating is limited.

Financial Assistance:
One (1) first-come, first-served sliding-scale registration is available for this seminar. Please contact Belmont Art Collective directly at belmontartcollective@gmail.com to obtain the discount code.