by Maxima Kahn | Jul 25, 2019 | Creative Sparks
I am over the moon! My full-length book of poems, Fierce Aria, has been accepted for publication by Finishing Line Press. Whoo! The book will come out next Spring, but pre-sales will start soon. I started work on assembling this manuscript back at the start of 2010.... 
by Maxima Kahn | Jun 13, 2019 | Creative Sparks
I have been thinking a lot about dreams and goals. How do we follow our heart’s dreams in this age of imminent destruction of our planet, our familiar ways of living? Why even dream in such a dire, uncertain time? For the same reasons we always have. To live our... 
by Maxima Kahn | May 29, 2019 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity, Soulful Living
One of the tenderest and most beautiful moments in my mother’s final days was the night before she died. My brother Josh sat singing to her for hours as she lay breathing raggedly, eyes closed, sunk deep into herself. And one by one all of my siblings and me, our... 
by Maxima Kahn | May 13, 2019 | Creative Sparks, Soulful Living
Sometime this past year I set the intention to live my life as prayer. I have carried this intention, less clearly named, for most of my life. I remember a summer when I was around 15 or 16 that a young homeless man granted me three magic wishes. I wished to become a... 
by Maxima Kahn | Apr 23, 2019 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity, Soulful Living
I come to poetry… Asking to be relieved of the pain inside, the unspoken. Asking to be met in the hollows of my heart, in my seeing and feeling of the world. Asking for beauty and imagination, for care and caring, for brute truth and grace. Asking to be let in from... 
by Maxima Kahn | Mar 26, 2019 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity, Soulful Living
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” —Oscar Wilde I try to please others, to be liked. And I wind up resentful, stifled, frustrated. I try to do what I think others want and find myself annoyed or bored or the whole thing going awry. As human beings, we have...