by Maxima Kahn | Feb 18, 2021 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity
The process of revision or honing, polishing and shaping a work of art is one that often stumps creative people. Where to begin? How to go about making the work stronger, better, truer to itself? Will I ruin it in the process? What to cut, keep, add, change? Some time... 
by Maxima Kahn | Feb 18, 2020 | Creative Sparks, Inspired Creativity
A couple of weeks ago I went to a talk and reading by much-loved author Pam Houston and then took her writing workshop the next day. I came away inspired, with her latest memoir, Deep Creek, under my arm, and new tools to use and teach, but I was also troubled.... 
by Maxima Kahn | Jun 14, 2017 | Creative Sparks
Pearls from the Colrain Poetry Conference I am just back from the Colrain Poetry Conference, this one held in Truchas, New Mexico. The conference is unique among poetry workshops in that it is an intensive weekend devoted to honing a manuscript of poems as a whole,...