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Spending this winter just outside Taos, New Mexico, I now understand why it’s called the Land of Enchantment. In my casita at an elevation of 8,000 feet, I am steeped in peace, stillness and unbelievable views. How lucky I am. This is my idea of paradise with time for hiking, online teaching, cross-country skiing, reading, writing (click here to read my latest essay published in Decor Maine magazine) and two-stepping!
In February I will head to Ucross, Wyoming where I’ve been invited to participate in an artists’ residency for the month to work on my next memoir. Then I’ll make my way to Vashon Island Artists’ Residency near Seattle, Washington for another month-long retreat. After attending the Centrum Artists’ Residency, I will come home to Maine in time for another gorgeous summer near the ocean.
Best of all, because my classes are all online, I get to continue the teaching I enjoy so much from wherever I am.
This month, I have two new offerings for bringing more creativity and fun to your writing…
Blank Page as Playground
Thursday, January 25th 6 – 7:30 PM EST
Continuing the fun and unbelievably effective format poet Sarah Carson and I have been teaching with our Little Frankensteins classes, we have decided to team up to offer a one-time 90-minute workshop for people who would like to see what all the fun is about.
Come experiment beyond the boundaries of poetry and prose, learn strategies to make play and discovery part of your writing practice.
The workshop will include time for in-class writing as well as exercises you can continue beyond the class.
Click here for more information and to register.
If you would like to spend more than one evening as part of this process of finding the unexpected while amping up the creativity of your writing, join our 5-week asynchronous workshop in February…
Little Frankensteins
February 5th – March 3rd
Asynchronous
You will receive the lessons and assignments in your inbox each week and participate in group discussion boards for support and feedback from award-winning poet Sarah Carson and me on your work.
Click here for more information and to register.
And finally…
Sarah Carson and I are curating this wonderful new website. Each week OK FRANK will feature the work of a writer or poet who is bending the traditional rules of genre to produce exciting and inspiring short pieces of work. Along with the poem or prose of the week, will be a message from the creator about how the particular piece came about.
Visit OKFRANK.COM to see what it’s all about.
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Catharine H. Murray 
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