How To Be a Friend to the Dying: a Tender Manual

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Written By Jade Adgate

I recently attended a Creative Writing workshop facilitated with the @amherstwriters method. We read a poem by the great Wendell Berry titled, “How To Be a Poet”. Our prompt was to write our own poem, how to be a …

The first thing that popped in my mind was “How To Be a Friend to the Dying”. Though it was painfully hard to limit my writing to 7 minutes, I’m proud of what came out of the exercise; I’m proud of the experience that grounds the wisdom and proud to share what I wrote.

Jade Adgate
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