Saturday, January
20, 4:00 pm, Ellen Plumb’s City Bookstore, 1122 Commercial, will host a
blogging workshop by educator, author, and 2009-13 Kansas Poet Laureate, Caryn
Mirriam-Goldberg. Admission to the workshop is the purchase of one copy
(or more) of Everyday Magic: Field Notes on the Mundane and the
Miraculous, now available at
Ellen Plumb’s City Bookstore.
The workshop will be
followed by a 30 to 40-minute reading which will start at 6:00 pm, and an
opportunity to visit with the author.
Mirriam-Goldberg, who has kept an online blog for more than
ten years, will address blogging as a spiritual and artistic practice, as well
as a way for an author to connect with their audience. She will share tools for
creating posts that help a blogger grow writing as a practice and craft, and
give readers a fresh view of their lives and worlds. The workshop will include
some blog post writing, the generation of lists for future blog posts, and
discussion on selecting topics.
Everyday
Magic (published by Meadowlark Books, December 2017) features the best of
Mirriam-Goldberg’s blog of the same title, exploring the mundane and miraculous
unfolding around us, and how to live with greater verve, meaning, and joy.
Journey through whimsical, tender, and fierce explorations of travel and
homecoming, beloveds and the art of loving, grief and resilience, the arts and
politics, spirit and being a body, and many other glimpses of being
all-too-human in an astonishing world. Of the book, Kevin Rabas, 2017-19
Kansas Poet Laureate, writes, “Like Da Vinci, Caryn is in love with the world,
knows its many ways, excels at all she does, and captures the hidden emotion
behind what she studies. My world opens up when I read these. Yours will too.”
Caryn
Mirriam-Goldberg, Ph.D., is the author of two
dozen books of poetry, fiction, and memoir. She also blogs for Huffington
Post, has blogged for various yoga journals, and maintains numerous blogs
for organizations and institutions. Her work includes Following the Curve, a
collection of embodied poetry; Needle in the Bone, a non-fiction book on
the Holocaust; The Sky Begins At Your Feet, a bioregional memoir on
cancer and community; and the award-winning Chasing Weather: Tornadoes,
Tempests, and Thunderous Skies in Word and Image with weather chaser/photographer
Stephen Locke. Founder of Transformative Language Arts at Goddard College where
she teaches, Mirriam-Goldberg leads writing workshops widely, and with singer
(and Emporia native) Kelley Hunt, she co-leads writing and singing
retreats. www.CarynMirriamGoldberg.com
This workshop benefits both Emporia’s independent bookstore,
Ellen Plumb’s City Bookstore, and Emporia’s independent publisher, Meadowlark
Books.
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