REGISTER HERE!

Yes, it is!

If you feel that way too, come to this talk/discussion for women in which we’ll raise consciousness about what aging is for each of us, both positive and negative, (yes, there are positives!) and the importance of acceptance of where and who we are while acknowledging loss, fear, grief and regret.

Sharon Charde practiced family therapy for twenty-five years as a licensed professional counselor and has led writing groups for women since 1992. She has won numerous poetry awards, has been widely published in literary journals and anthologies, and has been nominated ten times for the Pushcart award.  The BBC adapted her work for an hour-long radio broadcast in June 2012, and she has seven published collections of poetry, the latest in September 2021, “The Glass is Already Broken,” from Blue Light Press. Her newest collection, “What’s After Making Love,” will be published by Fernwood Press in 2025.

From 1999 to 2016, she volunteered at a residential treatment facility teaching poetry to adjudicated young women, creating a collaborative group with a local private school for eleven of those years, and her memoir about that work, “I Am Not a Juvenile Delinquent,” (Turner Publishing) was published in 2020.  Charde has been awarded fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, MacDowell, Ucross Foundation and The Corporation of Yaddo. She lives in Lakeville, Connecticut with her husband John.