Signup for Next Community Week: Remembrance and Memorial

[poetree_admin]

November commemorates. From rituals of remembrance to those of harvest, we make honored space for death as part and apart from life.

As our dead are especially present this month, our next community themed week focuses on remembrance. In poetry or prose, performance or poetic complement, meta or medium yet unmentioned - let's introduce each other to those we carry with us. Let's make a kind and listening space for the absences that shape (and sometimes shake) us.

If you would like to participate, please comment on this post to claim a particular open slot and briefly tease us with some sense of what you'll post. You may also use the comment section to solicit collaborators for a group post. Participation is not limited to current comm members or even Dreamwidth members - please contact the admins at poetree.at.dreamwidth [at] gmail if you will need someone to post on your behalf. The admins are also available for brainstorming and beta support on request.


Monday, November 18th: alee_grrl: November

Tuesday, November 19th: ysabetwordsmith: veterans and war memorials

Wednesday, November 20th: [Open slot]

Thursday, November 21st: raze: pets, pet lovers, and 'The Rainbow Bridge'

Friday, November 22nd: cadenzamuse: Catholic holy cards as funeral icons

Saturday, November 23rd: kaberett and jjhunter: poems

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Last edited 11/12/13 by jjhunter

Comments

Thursday, please?

[raze]

I would like to talk about the prose poem The Rainbow Bridge and how this short work about loss & reunion by an unknown author has become widely circulated to the point of being a part of every day pet lover culture and lore in the US and other western nations.

[cadenzamuse]

I would take Monday, but I don't really want to introduce anything. So Friday?

I want to talk about Catholic holy cards as funeral icons, I think. Possibly I will throw in some poetry from the Bible, but something about icons, anyway.

monday - birthday reflections

[alee_grrl]

I could take Monday's post. I would like to discuss why November a strange, sometimes bittersweet month of celebration and grieving for me.

[jjhunter]

kaberett and I would like to do Sat. together.

Okay...

[ysabetwordsmith]

I'll take Tuesday with veterans and war memorials.

[bookblather]

If no one else signs up for Wednesday, I'll take it. Not 100% sure with what yet, so I'll happily bow out if someone else wants it.