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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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
- 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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