Location
Date & Time
5:00pm EST - 5:30pm EST
About This Event
A Furious Blooming: Writing into Grief with Bushra Rehman
Sunday, April 19, 2026
2:00–2:30 pm PDT / 3:00 pm MDT / 4:00 pm CDT / 5:00 pm EDT / 10:00 pm GMT / 11:00 pm CET (Monday) 5:00 am AWST (Perth) / 7:00 am AEST
When mothers are planted,
daughters begin a furious blooming.
— Kamilah Aisha Moon, Initiation
Grief leaves us speechless. It throws us into the depths of silence. There are never the right words to say to those who are grieving—or to explain the depths of our own grief.
Grief is a door we are pushed through into a new world, a world we must learn to live in. We are never the same. How do we write from these new selves? How can we lean into our writing practice not only to survive the storms of grief, but also the storms unleashed in those we grieve alongside?
In this workshop, we will draw inspiration from writers who have broken through the boundary of wordlessness. We will gather—gently and honestly—bringing our grief journeys into shared space, if only for a moment. Together, we will write into our own experiences of loss, side by side, and not so alone.
Bushra Rehman is a writer, teaching artist, and cultural activist.
Her novel Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion, a coming-of-age story about growing up Muslim and queer in New York City, was named a Best Book and Editor’s Choice by major national publications. She is co-editor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism and author of the poetry collection Marianna’s Beauty Salon and the dark comedy Corona, selected by the New York Public Library as a favorite book about NYC.
Rehman received the Queens Public Library Award for her contribution to literature in Queens.
This session will not be recorded.
About This Event
A Furious Blooming: Writing into Grief with Bushra Rehman
Sunday, April 19, 2026
2:00–2:30 pm PDT / 3:00 pm MDT / 4:00 pm CDT / 5:00 pm EDT / 10:00 pm GMT / 11:00 pm CET (Monday) 5:00 am AWST (Perth) / 7:00 am AEST
When mothers are planted,
daughters begin a furious blooming.
— Kamilah Aisha Moon, Initiation
Grief leaves us speechless. It throws us into the depths of silence. There are never the right words to say to those who are grieving—or to explain the depths of our own grief.
Grief is a door we are pushed through into a new world, a world we must learn to live in. We are never the same. How do we write from these new selves? How can we lean into our writing practice not only to survive the storms of grief, but also the storms unleashed in those we grieve alongside?
In this workshop, we will draw inspiration from writers who have broken through the boundary of wordlessness. We will gather—gently and honestly—bringing our grief journeys into shared space, if only for a moment. Together, we will write into our own experiences of loss, side by side, and not so alone.
Bushra Rehman is a writer, teaching artist, and cultural activist.
Her novel Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion, a coming-of-age story about growing up Muslim and queer in New York City, was named a Best Book and Editor’s Choice by major national publications. She is co-editor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism and author of the poetry collection Marianna’s Beauty Salon and the dark comedy Corona, selected by the New York Public Library as a favorite book about NYC.
Rehman received the Queens Public Library Award for her contribution to literature in Queens.
This session will not be recorded.
Location
Date & Time
5:00pm EST - 5:30pm EST