Poetry Workshop: Finding Gratitude in the Everyday

A Poetry Workshop on Gratitude, Reflection, and What Still Matters

“Our gratitude, our enthusiasm, our wonder, is precious,” writes poet Ross Gay.

In this joyful, generative poetry writing workshop, we'll explore how poetry can help us notice and celebrate the people, places, experiences, and small moments that enrich our lives.

Drawing inspiration from poets such as Ada Limón, W. S. Merwin, and Mary Oliver, we'll read poems of gratitude, delight, and praise, discovering how even the most ordinary things can become occasions for wonder. We'll then use these poems as springboards for our own creative writing, finding fresh ways to express appreciation for the world around us, in all its beauty and imperfection.

Hosted by SurvivingBreastCancer.org, this workshop offers an opportunity to slow down, reflect, and reconnect with what holds meaning in our lives. For those living with or affected by breast cancer, creative writing can also offer a space…