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How has your healing process inspired you?

How would you translate loss and grief into poetry or prose? During such difficult times and during this ongoing pandemic, we invite the UC Davis community to contribute poems and prose around the topic of grief, loss, hope, and resilience. These will be turned into a participatory art installation in support of the exhibition, “Guardians: Spirits of Protection”, and will be displayed in the UC Davis Arboretum. We hope this prompt and installation will be a way for participants to express their thoughts and feelings and will help provide participants and viewers alike with a sense of connection during difficult times.

DEADLINE EXTENDED through April 18

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
The poem and prose must fit into the following requirements, in order for us to be able to display it properly in the UC Davis Arboretum.

18 lines maximum, including line breaks
50 character count per line maximum, spaces included. (You can check your character count here with this link https://charactercounttool.com/ : )
We welcome poems written in languages other than English, to reflect the diversity of our UC Davis community

If you want to learn more about the exhibition “Guardians: Spirits of Protection”, you can read about it in these links:
https://arts.ucdavis.edu/exhibition/guardiansspirits-protection
https://theaggie.org/2021/11/09/guardians-spirits-of-protection-explores-healing-after-facing-loss/

ADDITIONAL PROMPT SUGGESTIONS:

write an ekphrastic poem about the Guardians
write about the general concept of guardians in the light of what you experiencing today
write about grief, loss, hope and/or resilience in relation to the Guardians

If you would like to submit a poem or prose in another language, and are having difficulty with the form submission below, please save your submission as a pdf and email your submission to ejwhelan@ucdavis.edu

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