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The Mystery of Grief: Writing into the Loss
2026-09-09 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-11-18 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
When we lose loved ones, writing can be a powerful tool for helping us remember them, helping us re-encounter the world without them, and helping us re-know ourselves as the loss transforms us.
In this two-hour online program, Evermore Poet Laureate Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer will offer a few suggestions for writing. Together, we will read poems about grief and discuss them. We will have chances to do our own writing, there will be optional time for sharing what we wrote, and we will have time to reflect on the effect writing has on us.
The event is scheduled in Eastern Time (ET).

Join Evermore’s Lived Experience Bereavement Research Network!
2026-10-15 12:00 - 14:00, 2026-11-12 12:00 - 14:00 | Zoom
For too long, bereavement research has failed to give bereaved people a voice and to incorporate the real-world factors that matter to grieving people, especially to their health and well-being. The narrow focus on what’s “wrong” with us and why we haven’t adapted to our loss on a specific timeline simply does not resonate with a large portion of people’s lived experience. Without input from those living with grief, researchers cannot know the most important research questions to ask and what kinds of care models and interventions should be developed.
Evermore, with financial support from PCORI, has established the Lived Experience Bereavement Research Network (LEBRN) to do just that. LEBRN will bring together people with varied backgrounds and expertise, including people who have experienced bereavement themselves — bereaved parents, children, siblings, spouses, and community leaders — alongside bereavement care providers and researchers. Over the next two years, we will identify how to best engage with bereaved people during research endeavors and we will recommend research questions, from the perspective of lived experience, to guide the future of bereavement research.
As part of LEBRN, Evermore is engaging all bereaved people who would like to share their experiences, opinions, and insights to inform future bereavement research.
The event is scheduled in Eastern Time (ET).

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Better Together: Shaping Tomorrow's Bereavement Care Research
2026-10-22 08:30 - 17:00
Evermore, a nonprofit dedicated to making the world a more livable place for all bereaved people, invites you to Shaping Tomorrow’s Bereavement Care Research to convene bereaved individuals, clinicians, researchers, and system-level leaders, including representatives from health systems, payers, professional associations, and community organizations, to advance the future of bereavement research.
Setting the Context
For too long, bereavement research has failed to give bereaved people a voice and incorporate the real-world factors that matter to grieving people, especially as it relates to their health and well-being. The narrow focus on what’s “wrong” with us and why we haven’t adapted to our loss on a specific timeline simply does not resonate with a large portion of people’s lived experience. Without input from those living with grief, researchers cannot know the most important research questions to ask and what kinds of care models and interventions should be developed.
Over the last 18 months, Evermore, with financial support from PCORI, has established the Lived Experience Bereavement Research Network (LEBRN) to create guiding principles for how researchers should engage with bereaved individuals, as well as what our more pressing research questions are to guide the future of bereavement research.
During the meeting, we will review and discuss LEBRN’s developed principles and research agenda, further exploring today’s research and practice landscape by identifying barriers and opportunities for integrating effective bereavement care into systems, ultimately to lay the groundwork for future patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research.
We hope you will join us!
Questions? Contact Rene Harrell, Senior Manager of Science & Trends at rene@evermore.org
This convening is funded through a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute® (PCORI®) Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award (#49140).

Shared Grief, Living Tradition: Writing the Contemporary Elegy
2026-10-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom
In this reading and writing workshop, we will explore the distinct force of elegy, poetry of mourning and memory. We will slow-listen to the undermusic in elegiac traditions and hear their contemporary resonances. And we will engage these traditions to better know our own experiences of struggle and express our own commitments to others. How can these past voices guide our own ways of understanding loss and bearing witness to one another’s grief? How might our poems circulate among others, in shared acts of memory, gratitude, and grief? Participants will read and discuss several inspiring poems, free-write, compare ideas in small groups, and shape our own poetic language. We will also have time to share our writing with the full group and consider next steps for building out our poetic practice.
This workshop will be taught by Karen Elizabeth Bishop and David Sherman, co-directors of The Elegy Project, a public poetry initiative that distributes poems in public places for strangers. Since 2022, TEP has left thousands of poetry cards in libraries, subways, post offices, bars, and bookstores, as well as on countless utility poles and park benches. This initiative is an attempt to make the world more interesting and grief less lonely. Karen Elizabeth Bishop is faculty in Spanish and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University and author of several books, including the poetry volume the deering hour. David Sherman is faculty in English at Brandeis University.
The event is scheduled in Eastern Time (ET).
