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  • Craft

    14 APR 2024 · We explore what this word means to us as creators, from the silly to the serious. Plus the role of intuition, practice and inner knowing. Jessica shares her poem “On Deciding on Learning to Write” and talks about her experience with writing workshops. Catherine shares two poems that bookend her writing journey: “Pupa” the title poem from her first book and “Part of the Song Where the Dead Come From” from her latest book, Put Flowers Around Us and Pretend We’re Dead: New and Selected Poems.
    36m 33s
  • Ideas

    31 MAR 2024 · Beginning ideas, sustaining ideas, consuming ideas—how as creators do we relate to this word? Jessica shares her poem “The Crossing of Candle Eyes” and Catherine shares three short poems inspired by her mother: “The Red Element” “It’s Only Her Piano Face” and “ My Suburban Forest.”
    31m 9s
  • Holding On & Letting Go

    17 MAR 2024 · While staying in to rest and heal what occupies our mind and imagination? What does it mean to “clean house”? How do we know what to hold on to and when to let go? We explore these things in dialogue and in poetry. Jessica shares two poems: “Leaving Home” and “Shine Firefly” and Catherine shares her poems “Freckle” and “Father’s Tattoo.”
    29m 34s
  • Winter & Self Care

    13 FEB 2024 · Writing, resting, going inward, the importance of self-care. Letting go. Balance. Writing through dark times. Balancing our creative life with teaching. Valuing our own rhythm. Catherine reads an excerpt from her memoir Aether: An Out-of-Body Lyric and Jessica reads an excerpt from a book about Métis beadwork.
    30m 28s
  • Winter, Dreams and Sleep

    28 JAN 2024 · What might our dreams teach us? Catherine shares her poem from the Niagara Falls Poetry Project “The Water Draws.” Jessica shares her poem “When.” Plus sleep habits, reading habits and Raymond Carver’s poem “Late Fragment.”
    31m 17s
  • Content, Craft, & Communication

    14 JAN 2024 · How do you know you are a writer? Is it possible to find poetry in the everyday? What’s it like to share raw work? What might we do with our dream lines? Catherine shares her poem “Last Shadow” and Jessica shares a new poem “Robin Takes a Break.”
    27m 35s
  • Learning is Change

    31 DEC 2023 · What assists us when we’re learning? What happens when we’re open and curious? Learning isn’t always easy and the unknown is our biggest teacher. Yet, how as writers do we share what we’ve learned? And what does the Medicine Wheel teach us? Catherine shares her poem “The Girl without Birds at the Top of the Stairs” and Jessica shares her poem “To Begin Again.”
    32m 28s
  • What is it to be inspired?

    17 DEC 2023 · This question leads us to talk about many things including P.K. Page, what it’s like to be a highly sensitive child, whether we’d like the gift of invisibility or mind control, the power of dreams, when dreams turn to visions and when visions turn to poems. Catherine shares her poem “The Bullied” and Jessica shares her poem “How Old Is Your Spirit.”
    30m 51s
  • Try Everything

    3 DEC 2023 · What happens when we move from word to image? Catherine talks about her experience leading a creative problem-solving workshop and how the images that appear know more than we do. What happens when we let go of control? Jessica talks about what her books have to say to her (yes, they do know where they want to be in her new home!). She also shares her experience braiding sweetgrass and the poem it inspired. We end our chat with Catherine’s poem on metamorphosis: “Imago.”
    30m 47s
  • The Circle and The Creative Act

    19 NOV 2023 · We talk about Rick Rubin’s book The Creative Act: A Way of Being and what it awakens in us as creators. What does it mean to lead a creative life? How do we get into a creative space? Catherine shares what recently happened on a walk to circle her back to her poem “Wind Tricks.” Jessica shares some insights about her intuitive painting journey as well as her poem “Lost Lesson.” And yes, the forest has eyes.
    30m 53s

Everyone is creative. Each person expresses creativity in their own unique ways. Like the hummingbird, we fly from ideas to projects to people. We find ways to make our faces...

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Everyone is creative. Each person expresses creativity in their own unique ways. Like the hummingbird, we fly from ideas to projects to people. We find ways to make our faces light up and to better understand our world. We live our questions. Sometimes the question is about something that holds us back. Sometimes we wonder what creativity really is all about. Sometimes we examine a life lived.

Join us as we explore our questions about nurturing a life of creative abundance. Send us your questions too We invite you to 'eavesdrop' on our conversations as we explore a different question episode.
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