PARENTS - For the first part of class, we'll be doing close readings to explore ways successful authors have written about their adult perspectives on their parents, including ways they deal with anger, empathy, and self-recognition. You'll be given writing prompts based on our discussion. All are welcome to join!

In the second part of class you will have a chance to share some of your own work and insights into the work of your peers in a supportive environment. It will be optional whether you choose to bring writing of your own - your insights are still valuable, and you can learn writing skills by carefully considering your response to another person's draft, and by hearing other people's responses.

Jennifer Freed has been leading Writing Craft programs for organizations including Yale Women Writers, the Stanley Kunitz Home Summer Writing Program, and her own local library. She is the author of When Light Shifts, a memoir-in-poems, which explores the aftermath of her mother’s cerebral hemorrhage and which was named a 2022 finalist for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize from the New England Poetry Club. http://jfreed.weebly.com