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Elizabeth Knies, Portsmouth Poet Laureate, with Andre Cuda, Seacoast Hospice volunteer, and Elaine Wiesman, Bereavement Program Manager for Seacoast Hospice. A specially created grief support group that employed poetry and writing met for six weekly sessions from January 24 through February 28, 2008. The materials created will serve as a model for ongoing support groups interested in using writing as a tool to express and work through grief.
Anne Rehner reads a poem during the "Surprised by Joy" performance at Webster at Rye on Sunday, May 18.
Edgewood resident Susan Kisslinger sings a song she wrote during the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program held at The Edgewood Center Sunday, March 9, 2008 (Portsmouth Herald Photo/Cheryl Senter)
Pat Spalding, left and Anne Rehner, right,
listen as others read during the Portsmouth
Poet Laureate Program held at The Edgewood
Center Sunday, March 9, 2008.
(Portsmouth Herald Photo/Cheryl Senter)
Roland Goodbody and Gerry Duffy read "You are Old, Father William" by Lewis Carroll on April 13, 2008, at Langdon Place while Kristen Miller, cellist, looks on. (Hetty Startup photo)
Audience members listen to the "Surprised by Joy" performance at Langdon Place of Dover on April 13, 2008. (Hetty Startup photo)
Pat Spalding talks with audience members from The Cottage after the Sept. 14 performance.
June Newland reads one of her own poems during the final performance of "Surprised by Joy," which was held Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008, at The Inn at Spruce Wood, Durham.
Audience members at the Inn at Spruce Wood.
Sylvia Lord reads one her own poems at The Inn at Spruce Wood.
Liz Knies, Bill Burtis, Pat
Spalding, Gerry Duffy listen during
the "Surprised by Joy" performance on Oct. 26, 2008, in
the Levenson Room of the Portsmouth Public Library.
(Herb Moyer photo)
Kristen Miller plays for a
standing room only crowd
on Oct. 26 at the Portsmouth library. (Herb Moyer photo)
Gerry Duffy and Roland
Goodbody read poetry during the Oct. 26 library
performance of "Surprised by Joy." (Herb Moyer
photo)
A standing room only crowd
enjoys the Oct. 26 poetry
and music performance. (Herb Moyer photo)
Pat Spalding and Bill Burtis
read poetry at the Portsmouth library.
(Herb Moyer photo)