Hello, friend! I’m Kate, a poet, singer, storyteller, composer, teacher, and fairy-godmother. I’m so glad you’re here. Help yourself to anything that calls you. I’ll add to this page as I create more resources to share.

My intention in this series is to encourage my fellow creators as we navigate some of the trickier aspects of making art and living creatively.

Click HERE for a link to the five-video playlist, or click on the video to the right to get started.

The videos address:

Rejection

Criticism

Mistakes

Comparison

Futility

These arise inevitably in any creative life, so if they are right now prominent in yours, please take heart! I am right there with you, my friend, having encountered them all and still wrestling with them now. But doing so means that we ARE creators, and that’s something to be proud of. Let’s keep going no matter what!

Irish proverbs offer us great treasures of encouragement, perspective, strength, wit, and wisdom. In this series, I share favorite proverbs and my reflections upon them in hopes that they will become valuable inner resources for you, too.

Click HERE to be taken to the seven-video playlist, or click the video to the left to get started.

Make some poems and be inspired by other poets and their poems!

Here are FIVE full poetry workshops I created and ran in April 2020-2024 as part of a celebration of National Poetry Month in conjunction with the journal makers, Jumping Fox Design.

Each four- or five-week series features poetry sparks – ideas and exercises to make your own poems – as well as poems by contemporary poets and by our own community.

Click HERE to be taken to the six-video playlist of the 2020 workshop, or click on the video to the right to get started.

Click HERE to be taken to the five-video playlist of the 2021 workshop, or click on the video to the right to get started.

Click HERE to be taken to the six-video playlist of the 2022 workshop, or click on the video to the right to get started.

Click HERE to be taken to the six-video playlist of the 2023 workshop, or click on the video to the right to get started.

Click HERE to be taken to the six-video playlist of the 2024 workshop, or click on the video to the right to get started.

Watch and work through these workshops at your own pace. They are warm, encouraging, inclusive, and ready for you. You’ll be amazed by what you create!

Poetry Celebration 2020

Poetry Celebration 2021

Poetry Celebration 2022

Poetry Celebration 2023

Poetry Celebration 2024

A celebration of gratitude and an invitation to embark on your own gratitude adventure.

To download this inspiring book, here: A grateful heart

A short guide to using small, fun, personal challenges as a way of sparking vitality and growth.

To download this energizing book, just click here: Mini-Challenges to Make your Life more Fun and Awesome

An idea-packed poetry guide to get you writing! Poems, prompts, biographies of wonderful poets, poetry activities: it’s all here for you – a workshop in a book.

To download this creativity-sparking book, please click here: Resource Book for Songs of the Poets

A fun guide to getting out of a rut! Full of quizzes, exercises, and activities to get you humming and sweetly flowing.

To download this zesty guide, just click here: The_Bardic_Academy_Guide_to_Leaping_Free_of_Creative_Blockades

If you like what you’ve found here, you might also enjoy receiving my monthly letter in which I share even more fun and inspiring gifts and resources with my small band of bardic friends. I’d love to count you among them. You can expect creative chat, songs, poems, photographs of the woods and lake near my home, and a general feeling of uplift and gladness. It’s all free and I think you’ll like it.