​Who should come

​You. If your grant was cut or paused in/after 2025. If you’re a PI, postdoc, grad student, lab tech, clinician, educator, data scientist, or collaborator whose work got sidelined. If you kept the notes, questions, and half-built rigs. All disciplines welcome. No poetry experience needed.

​Why this matters

​Because what you were building still matters. This workshop turns anger, grief, and unfinished ideas into poems and short oral histories that can’t be quietly erased. You’ll leave with new language for your work, peers who get it, and a path to keep the record.

​What to expect

• ​Generative prompts · quick craft lessons · small-group share

• ​Time to write, revise, and read aloud

​Who we are

​We’re a small, interdisciplinary team running trauma-aware workshops, publishing poems and chapbooks, and partnering with libraries, museums, and universities to keep this record visible.

​Emma Anderson — researcher and educator (Penn PhD) studying how science, art, making, and play intersect.
Dorothea Lasky — poet and professor at Columbia University; author of eleven books, directing the Poetry program.
Elizabeth Metzger — award-winning poet (Milkweed); author of Lying In and The Spirit Papers.

​Laura Amico — journalist/editor (Homicide Watch; Boston Globe; HBR) who builds community-centered projects and public archives.