writing wild. writing holy. writing free.
mai cortez doan is a writer, facilitator, and certified grief and death doula. mai facilitates community offerings around writing and processing grief and teaches how the natural world can support us through loss, death, and change.
She lives in Albuquerque, NM with her dog, Story.
dear grief is for anyone seeking community and guided practice around grief. in this space, we connect to ourselves, each other, and the earth, and engage with writing as a tool for acknowledging, learning from, and processing grief. dear grief provides a regular space to drop into for connection and support. you do not need to have writing experience or identify as a writer to join. all are welcome <3
upcoming dates:
tuesday, 8/26@ 6pm MT
tuersday, 9/9 @ 6pm MT
tuesday, 9/23 @ 6pm MT
Recent Blog Posts
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Seeds of Grief
Seeds are the material through which life not only continues but evolves. If we think about grief as a seed, what does that change in how we orient to our grief? And what kind of potential would live within these tiny, primordial pods?
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Turning to the Earth in Grief
Our experiences of loss and grief have the potential to expand our awareness and connect us back to the universal cycles and the bigger-than-us wisdom and intelligence that is constantly unfolding within and around us.
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Repairing the Heart Song
Being a living being with all of the wounding that life can bring is made more possible when we are graced with the softness of presence that comes from those who can see us.
water/tongue
A 2020 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Poetry
“How many ways can we be killed by being forced to fit into a world we didn’t ask for? Here is a poetics of of the trace, of the unpronounced events reverberating on a sparsely marked page, in the space between the cracked house that leaks memory: a girl running. What is the speaker to do with the weight of what her ancestors have lived through? Repatriate the severed tongue. Build a politics of ritual, of hair and rose petals at the bottom of an empty bathtub. mai c. doan’s powerful book water/tongue is written from the position of being in, but not of, this monstrosity we call America. And they would rather stutter than be folded into the Empire."- Jackie Wang, author of Carceral Capitalism
