About the Event

Can writing haiku keep us grounded? This guided writing workshop will include a basic history of haiku poetry; we will read examples of famous poems; and attendees will be invited to compose haiku of their own, as a means of achieving mindfulness and connectedness, particularly in environments–such as healthcare spaces–that may at times be distracting or destabilizing.

This event is part of the event series higlighting the launch of "Creativity in the Time of Covid: The Art of Grieving," the final exhibition of a three-year national tour! 

Light refreshments will be served. 

About the Speaker

Craig Pearson is a psychiatry resident with interests in neuroscience and narrative medicine. As a medical student at Washington University, he contributed to research and creative projects that engaged with topics in narrative medicine and got an MFA in fiction writing from Boston University. He is currently a resident in the Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital (MGH/McLean) General Adult Psychiatry Residency Program in Boston.

About the Exhibition

Countway Library is proud to host “The Art of Grieving,” an exhibition of art and creative work featuring Marked By Covid, in partnership with the Creativity in the Time of Covid-19 research collective. The library will feature a collection of works created during – or inspired by – a period marked by collective grief, including a sculpture made of surgical masks and a needlework series depicting the slogans written on highway signs in the early days of lockdown. 

"The Art of Grieving" is the culminating exhibition in a nationwide series that has included Buffalo, New York; US Air Force Academy, Colorado; St. Louis, MO; Detroit and Lansing, MI ("Creativity in the Time of Covid 19: Art as Medicine") and presented from Phoenix and Chicago to Seoul, South Korea. We are proud to host the final, fantastic moment of this nationwide tour. 

Learn more about the Countway exhibition at countway.info/creativity.