Grief & Grace: A Reading Showcase

Join writers Krystle May Statler, Tina Tau, and Moe Bowstern by the fire (or in the garden if it's nice) of The Grief House to hear their narratives of love, loss, resilience, and the transformative power we unearth when we share dreams and tell our stories. 

About The Work:

Prayer For Relief, by Krystle May Statler-

Prayer for Relief exemplifies what Toni Morrison called the "reach toward the ineffable," the power of attempting to mourn through language, even when language is insufficient. In this collection, Statler responds to her brother's death-and to the ongoing record of fatal shootings by police officers-by posing to us the question of how we might transform bare facts into poetry. Through formal constraints and clever reinventions of familiar texts, Statler talks back to the banalities of legal procedures, autopsy reports, prayers, and everyday speech, and invites playfulness into even this unfathomable loss. Prayer for Relief…