Poems, Poets & Prompts: It's National Poetry Month!
April is National Poetry Month, and I feel like celebrating! I haven’t always loved poetry. When I was an undergrad studying English...
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Lisa Colburn
- Jan 29
- 4 min
Reading Poems at the Hotel Chelsea
I consider myself more an essayist than a poet, but early in 2020 I took a poetry class with Linda Barnes through the Therapeutic Writing...
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Lisa Colburn
- Jul 31, 2022
- 3 min
Summertime, and the Reading is Easy
For those of us who are so inclined, one of the great pleasures of summer is carving out more time to read. I mostly choose my summer...
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Lisa Colburn
- Jun 19, 2022
- 6 min
My Father, the Writer
Whenever I came home from college, where I was studying English literature, my father, Wendall Kinney, would tease me: “What are you...
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Lisa Colburn
- May 31, 2022
- 4 min
Creating in the Middle of Things
In the past few weeks my best ideas have come to me while lying on the acupuncture table, my skin bristling with stainless steel needles...
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Lisa Colburn
- Apr 21, 2022
- 3 min
Visiting Emily Dickinson's House
I’ve been rooting around in my workshop notebooks for the past few months looking for material I may want to develop (a practice I highly...
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Lisa Colburn
- Mar 30, 2022
- 4 min
Permission Granted
A few weeks ago my husband and I had dinner with friends who asked about the creativity coach training I’m taking with author and...
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Lisa Colburn
- Feb 1, 2022
- 3 min
Reading Incarcerated Writers
For the past two and a half years, I have been responding to the writing of incarcerated people from around the United States as a...
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Lisa Colburn
- Oct 22, 2021
- 3 min
Retreat + Journal = Transformation
Last night I arrived home from a five-day personal writing retreat with a couple of friends at the Highlights Foundation’s retreat center...
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Lisa Colburn
- Jun 1, 2021
- 4 min
Listening for Your Original Voice
Last month, after my mother and I were both fully vaccinated, I flew to Maine to visit her for Mother’s Day. She picked me up in Portland...
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Sue McCollum
- May 1, 2021
- 4 min
The Gift of Legacy
The 120-year-old embroidery piece my grandmother created when she was a teen hangs on my office wall. It was a sewing exercise for her to...
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Lisa Colburn
- Apr 8, 2021
- 3 min
The Week That Changed My Life
“Tell me something I can’t forget.”—Pat Schneider, founder of Amherst Writers & Artists I can’t forget Pat Schneider’s charming yellow...
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Lisa Colburn
- Mar 23, 2021
- 12 min
Writers on Reading
March is National Reading Month, which I am happy to celebrate since—like most writers—I love to read! My earliest reading memories are...
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Lisa Colburn
- Feb 25, 2021
- 3 min
Bye for Now, Bailey
Everything you go through grows you – Bob Sima, “No Mud, No Lotus” On Monday night I had the honor of hosting a special event to launch...
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Lisa Colburn
- Jan 2, 2021
- 3 min
Finding Joy
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it...
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Lisa Colburn
- Aug 24, 2020
- 4 min
Remembering Pat Schneider
It wasn’t Emily Dickinson who put Amherst, Massachusetts on the map for me: it was Pat Schneider. Pat was a gifted poet, author, and...
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Lisa Colburn
- May 10, 2020
- 4 min
Phenomenal Women
In early March I offered this video of Maya Angelou reading her poem "Phenomenal Woman" as a writing prompt to celebrate International...
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Lisa Colburn
- Dec 9, 2019
- 3 min
Beginning Again (and Again)
Do you ever want to hit the reset button and begin again? I certainly do, especially when it comes to my writing practice. As many of you...
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Lisa Colburn
- Oct 16, 2019
- 4 min
The Perfect Writer's Getaway
I am writing this at my desk in cabin #20 at the Highlights Foundation’s retreat center. As I look out my window past the screened-in...
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Lisa Colburn
- Apr 23, 2019
- 3 min
Writer Showcase: Lynn Lothman
I've enjoyed having Lynn Lothman as a participant in my Monday afternoon Amherst Writers & Artists workshop, “Writing from the Heart.”...
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