Writing the Liminal Body

​Parenting a pubescent body while your own is shifting beneath you is complicated, surprising, humbling, frustrating, soft, rugged, potent, poetic, and yes, sometimes absurd territory. Both of you are changing, think, same storm, different seasons. And somehow you're expected to hold it all together.

This is an invitation to stop holding it together, just for a couple of hours.

Ali Lawrence of Four Chambers Writing invites you to come as you are and let those unruly bodies unlock some unruly words — to write, listen, connect, and create at the untamed intersection of puberty and perimenopause. We use poetry as a doorway and the creative unconscious as our guide. Expect laughs, tears, and a brave space to let it rip.

You don't need to be a writer. You just need a pen, some paper, and something you haven't said out loud yet.

(Yes, we write with our actual hands.)