Additional resources if you're interested and have time:

 

Poems for Tragedy and Grief

https://poets.org/text/poems-tragedy-and-grief

 

Poems about Grief and Grieving

https://whatsyourgrief.com/poems-about-grief-and-grieving/

 

Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events:

https://www.press53.com/poetry-collections/after-shocks-the-poetry-of-recovery-for-life-shattering-events-edited-by-tom-lombardo

 

Poetry Healing Power during the Pandemic

 

"We argue that poetry can play a very relevant role and have an impact in medicine. Through a brief literature review of previous studies on poetry in medicine, we demonstrate that poetry can not only combat loneliness but can also play important roles in helping patients, physicians, and other healthcare professionals/providers."

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7447694/

 

Pet loss

https://germanshepherdshop.com/blogs/list/here-s-why-grief-over-the-loss-of-a-pet-is-so-serious

 

Thomas Hardy poem on pet loss:

https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/dead-wessex-dog-household

 

Shout-out to class member, Malaika:

https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/malaika_king_albrecht

 

An artist friend told me about this book when I was questioning my vocation as a writer and it changed my life:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/art-fear-observations-on-the-perils-and-rewards-of-artmaking-ted-orland/8616109?ean=9780961454739

 

And since the topic came up, a good resource on shame I can recommend personally, although outside my scope of practice:

https://www.johnbradshaw.com/books/healing-the-shame-that-binds-you