The Elegy Project, initiated by poets Karen Elizabeth Bishop and David Sherman, is a public initiative designed to connect people through the experience of grief, especially during the loneliness of the pandemic. It features workshops where participants write elegies, a poetic form tied to mourning and loss. Supported by grant funding, the project includes diverse events like public readings. The project aims to lessen the isolation felt in grief and celebrates the human experience of loss, as expressed beautifully in elegiac poetry.
"The Elegy Project is a public poetry initiative that aims to make grief less lonely by placing poem cards in public spaces for strangers to find..."
"Elegy is perhaps the most primal and human of poetic impulses - the need to mourn, to praise, and to console..."
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