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    Listening for Your Original Voice
    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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    Phenomenal Women
    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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    Try This: Small Stones
    Lisa Colburn
    • Jun 19, 2018
    • 3 min

    Try This: Small Stones

    At the end of April a small group of writers joined me for Flower & Garden / Pen & Page, a Saturday morning writing workshop that...
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    Try This: Ode to Childhood Junk Food
    Lisa Colburn
    • May 18, 2018
    • 4 min

    Try This: Ode to Childhood Junk Food

    In the last six-week session of Writing from the Heart, one of our favorite prompts was this: Write about your favorite childhood junk...
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    Markets: How to Submit to Visual Verse
    Lisa Colburn
    • Feb 9, 2018
    • 2 min

    Markets: How to Submit to Visual Verse

    Sometimes as writers we just need a quick fix—to be noticed, to have our work read by someone other than our spouse, and to see our words...
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    Try This: Fun with Postcards
    Lisa Colburn
    • Jun 22, 2017
    • 1 min

    Try This: Fun with Postcards

    I’ve recently returned from a weeklong writing retreat in the south of France (more on that in a future post) led by my friend and fellow...
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    Your New Year's Inventory
    Lisa Colburn
    • Dec 29, 2016
    • 2 min

    Your New Year's Inventory

    I don't know about you, but I often find myself at this time of year—the twilight between Christmas and New Year's—wondering where the...
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    Try This: The List Poem
    Lisa Colburn
    • Jul 27, 2016
    • 2 min

    Try This: The List Poem

    A lot of people are frightened by the very idea of writing a poem, and who can blame them? Visions of high school English papers dripping...
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    Try This: Mood Ring Poem
    Lisa Colburn
    • Apr 7, 2016
    • 2 min

    Try This: Mood Ring Poem

    Every now and then I find a writing prompt that is so much fun it requires wider sharing. Mood Ring, from Writing from the Senses: 59...
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    Try This: The Proust Questionnaire
    Lisa Colburn
    • Mar 15, 2016
    • 2 min

    Try This: The Proust Questionnaire

    As I was scrolling through my iPhone news feed last week I stumbled across this article: "Sally Field Answers Vanity Fair's Proust...
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    Writing from Art
    Lisa Colburn
    • Dec 22, 2015
    • 2 min

    Writing from Art

    In my workshops I often invite participants to respond to images—whether from the New York Times Magazine fashion issue (Who dresses like...
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