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Vanessa Irene Poster

Avatar photoVanessa Poster, a member of the Los Angeles Poets and Writer’s Collective, has studied Method Writing with Jack Grapes for more than 20 years and has been teaching creative writing since March 2017. Her work has appeared in The Thieving Magpie, ONTHEBUS, I’ll have Wednesday and Went To Ralphs To Get A Chicken. She is a writing coach and runs a workshop called, “The Write Way: Using the Written Word to Heal Grief.” She is a graduate of Stanford University with a Bachelors in Humanities and a Masters in Modern Thought and Literature. She was widowed in 2015 and her poems explore themes of grief, love and gratitude.

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We Danced
Grief Dialogues The Book

We Danced

We danced when we thought you would live. We were tourists among the ghosts in Old Town Albuquerque walking past the crowds past the Navajo

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January 5, 2022
Stages of Grief Poem by Vanessa Poster
Coping With Grief

Stages of Grief

Stage 7: Schizophrenia I saw his voice.I smelled his shadow. My love, he said,I did not want to leave you. Stage 15: Widow Brain You

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March 23, 2020