BRATTLEBORO — Writer Deborah Lee Luskin offers a one-day writing workshop for those who want to remember their mothers in a writing circle.
“Mourning Our Mothers: A Day of Remembrance” runs Saturday, April 26, from 8:45 a.m. to 3 p.m. at a private home near Brattleboro. The cost for the day is $75.
Luskin is a novelist, essayist, and educator. In her writing circles, she says, she creates “a safe place where the synergy of writing with others loosens the tongue of memory, allowing words to fly onto the page.”
Theme-based prompts will allow participants to tap into a reservoir of emotion and memory stored in their hearts and offer them a chance to imagine conversations with a parent “no longer in the world but still in our universe.”
The power of our stories is amplified when we read and listen to each other's words, she says.
Participants are asked to bring both a photograph of their mother and a favorite dish of their mom's to share for the potluck lunch, as well as writing materials, whether pen and paper or laptop.