Bread & Poetry

Grief and Love Are Sisters: A Valentine’s Eve Offering

Join us for a rich & restorative evening with featured guest Holly Truhlar, (she/they) a grief therapist, community organizer and poetry weaver. Guided by Holly's fierce courage, on this Valentine’s eve, we’ll open our hearts, expand our definition of love, and journey through the gates of grief together. Using poetry and writing prompts, we’ll create love notes to the people, places, and sorrows who’ve broken our hearts or broken them open. We’ll close with a simple ritual in which our grief-fueled Valentine’s will serve as offerings to the wider world. 

“Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that there is no love that does not contain loss and no loss that is not a reminder of the love we carry for what we once held close.” — Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow

Holly Truhlar (she/they) is a grief therapist, group facilitator, and community organizer. She’s most known for her collaborations with Soul activism, politicized grief tending, and collapse psychology. Her body of work is a remembering of what it means to people of potency and culture. She earned a Doctorate in Law and Masters in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, though she learns the most from her relationships with the Wild, including the land she inhabits, Ancestors, Hekate, and donkeys. Her work and offerings are dedicated to her siblings who became mighty Ancestors much too soon: Brett and Ivy. You can get to know Holly more on her website at: www.hollytruhlar.com. 

On instagram, she is @hollytruhlar.

About Bread & Poetry:

"Poetry, like bread, is for everyone." -Roque Dalton

Bread and Poetry, facilitated by Elizabeth Marglin, meets regularly at the Lyons Community Library. This offering is for people interested in language, particularly poetry, as a doorway to something sacred inside themselves. Mixing experiential writing exercises with lively Q & A and a range of featured poets, Bread & Poetry serves up language that dissolves borders between self and Self; self and other. It is a way to hold space for a community of undefended hearts, each speaking a love language at once personal and universal. As the poet David Whyte says, “Poetry is language against which you have no defenses.”