Kimberly O'Connor

writer & teacher

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  • Coming up soon: Poetry for Beginners- An Introduction to Writing and Appreciating the Craft

    I’m teaching this poetry workshop with Denver Public Library in April and May. Check it out!

  • The Artist’s Way Week 4

    Week 4 of The Artist’s Way begins by asking us to consider what it is we are truly feeling. Cameron interrogates what it means to feel “okay.” Think about how often we answer, when asked how we are, I’m okay. “Okay is a blanket word for most of us,” Cameron…

  • The Artist’s Way Week 3

    Hello! I’m pushing the boundaries of “week 3” here, but it was a long weekend. Speaking of boundaries: maybe you’ve found yourself thinking about them during week 3, which is all about “recovering a sense of power.” I decided to write about boundaries this week to think about how boundaries…

  • The Artist’s Way Week 2

    Hello friends! I hope you had a good week 2. This week I am writing about something that feels scary to share because it’s personal and reveals my no-so-admirable side, but I decided to go for it because that’s what The Artist’s Way is all about, right? It can be…

  • Artist’s Way Week 1

    Hello–and welcome, new followers! I’m excited to write about The Artist’s Way each week for the next 12 weeks. A quick note: if you weren’t part of The Artist’s Way workshop at Denver Public Library on January 20, you can still join us for The Artist’s Way adventure. All you…

  • Get Started with The Artist’s Way

    On Saturday I had the most fun teaching ever at Denver Public Library’s Eugene Field Branch leading a workshop on Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way. The Artist’s Way changed my life about 25 years ago, when artist Caroline Armijo told me about it. I was early in my teaching career,…

  • A Found Poem About the Power of Writing

    I was lucky enough to get to work with 14 amazing creative writers at Community College of Denver this semester. For their final portfolio, they have to respond to this question: Considering what you know about poetry and prose, explain the value of human expression. Why do we–humans–create literary art?…

  • Write with me in 2024

    I have two classes coming up! Lighthouse Writers Workshop: Poetic Forms. January 11-February 29, 2024, 1 to 3 PM each week. Register here. We’ll explore one poetic form each week, and wrap up the class by creating a brand new poetic form. This is great way to explore the building blocks of…

  • Poem of the Week: Days by Phillip Larkin

    What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake ustime and time over.They are to be happy in;where can we live but days? Ah, solving that questionbrings the priest and the doctorin their long coatsrunning over the fields. What are days for? Days are where we…

  • Stuff I’m Into: Three Terrific Audiobooks

    I’ve discovered the secret to reading more, and it’s this: not reading. Kinda. It’s audiobooks. As a child and teen, I read constantly, as much as I could, during meals, in the bathtub, for entire weekends. But as an adult, I rarely sink down into a good book. I wish…