• YOU are a poem and you are the poet of your own life. Join me for a one-on-one exploration of the poem that you are. With my love and support, you will make a series of poems that explore and express your unique artistry. You will be nourished and inspired by Celtic lore, story, and poetry. Our time together includes four sessions combining conversation and poem-making, and culminates in a beautiful chapbook of your poems that will serve as a touchstone as you progress deeper into your own artistry and joy. Please see below for details.  
  • The Harp-Boat  features poems about growing up in a fishing family on the Maine coast.  It is the winner of the Kulupi Press Sense of Place Chapbook Contest. SOLD OUT. Thank you so much for your interest in this book!  I'm looking into ways to have it re-printed.
  • Grow wiser, braver. and more useful this winter in this Celtic Wisdom School course - mentored by the world-building Cailleach and the world-healing Bean Feasa!

    Join us to learn about the Cailleach, the hag of Irish tradition, and her human counterpart, the Bean Feasa or wise woman, whose insight and compassion save the day in many Irish tales. With their excellent example, we'll endeavor to become wiser, more discerning, clearer, more creative, and more deeply useful to our friends, families, and communities. We will conspire with the Cailleach in her world-building and world-tending, and as a group we'll become a conspiracy of Cailleachs as we embody her fierce vitality on our way to becoming as wise and useful as the Bean Feasa. Our time together combines video lessons and storytelling, materials drawn and translated from Irish folklore and mythology, and a weekly 90-minute gathering where the real fun, learning, and transformation happen. In addition, you'll be invited into a one-on-one correspondence with Kate centered around each week's powerful question. At the end of the course, you'll receive a pdf booklet of all of the course materials to keep. 9 January - 26 February 2023 Find out more about the course below.
  • A collection of beloved poems in English and Irish that I've set to music for voice, piano, and harp. In addition to the CD, please feel most welcome to download my resource book which contains the texts of the poems, biographies of the poets, and questions and ideas to spark your own poems.  FREE:  my gift to you!
  • A brand new book of poems!  These are short, readable, image-rich, and lyrical.  If you'd like me to sign your book, just let me know in the buying notes and tell me to whom you want your book inscribed.  It will be my pleasure.  
  • A one-hour poetry workshop with Kate Chadbourne on the subject of Inspiration:
    • You'll create three poems in an atmosphere of fun, ease, and pleasure with my loving guidance
    • You'll investigate your connection with the life-giving energy of Inspiration
    • You'll spend a beautiful, creative hour with yourself
  • Out of stock
    In Brigit’s Woven World and other poems of Ireland, the reader is introduced to saints, spirits, wise women, hags, enchanting places, and the Irish language itself. As a scholar and as a poet, I have long been inspired and fascinated by the Irish imagination and its many reflections in folklore, mythology, music, and storytelling. These poems flow out of my own lived experience of that deep and shining well.
  • HOORAY! Here is my brand new ebook of "Novemberish" stories, poems, and seasonal delights, including Irish folklore, a taste of etymology, a recipe for a truly wonderful cake, a good riddle, and a cast of characters that includes giants, hags, ghosts, foxes, owls, magical musicians, mermaids, a mysterious baker, and many more. The accompanying audiobook, which includes everything in the ebook, opens the door for you to three hours of warm, intimate, company-keeping with me.  It sounds like a dream because it was professionally recorded, mixed, and mastered by the amazing Lauren Passarelli. If you've ever wanted my voice in your ear, well, here it is - and you know that I LOVE to do all the voices and savor every inflection. Your purchase receipt includes three download links - the ebook itself, and the two parts of the audiobook. Please note that this is a virtual offering (rather than a physical CD or printed book). The contents of this book are in many ways the contents of my heart. I am so grateful to you for your interest in "meeting" it and me in the bleak and beautiful world of November.  
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