The Hummingbird Podcast

03/11/2024

Catherine and Jessica will be back with new episodes before the holidays!

25/08/2024

Your hosts and had a great hummingbird time catching up in person! 🧡 We are looking forward to an exciting fall season on the podcast. Stay tuned! 💜🌺

09/06/2024

How will you create this summer? Join us for the last episode of Season 5. We will be back in September!

Noticing. Moving out of autopilot. Actively making decisions to notice. We chat about Anne Truitt’s book Daybook: The Journal of an Artist. Jessica reads a recent sensory inspired piece. Catherine …

26/05/2024

How does art influence your writing?

We “sink in” to the role perception plays with art and writing. Catherine reads two excerpts from her novels (Quarry and The Most Cunning Heart) as examples. Jessica shares her poem “The Works,” a …

28/04/2024

How do you describe the relationship between art and poetry? How does art inspire your writing process?

We talk about art as inspiration and connection. We share stories about visiting art galleries and our powerful one-on-one experiences with art. Catherine shares two poems that connect to two book …

14/04/2024

What does the word craft mean to you?

We explore what this word means to us as creators, from the silly to the serious. Plus the role of intuition, practice and inner knowing. Jessica shares her poem “On Deciding on Learning to Write” …

31/03/2024

Beginning ideas, sustaining ideas, consuming ideas—how as creators do we relate to this word? Jessica shares her poem “The Crossing of Candle Eyes” and Catherine shares three short poems inspired by her mother: “The Red Element” “It’s Only Her Piano Face” and “ My Suburban Forest.”

Beginning ideas, sustaining ideas, consuming ideas—how as creators do we relate to this word? Jessica shares her poem “The Crossing of Candle Eyes” and Catherine shares three short poems inspired b…

17/03/2024

While staying in to rest and heal what occupies our mind and imagination? What does it mean to “clean house”? How do we know what to hold on to and when to let go? We explore these things in dialogue and in poetry. Jessica shares two poems: “Leaving Home” and “Shine Firefly” and Catherine shares her poems “Freckle” and “Father’s Tattoo.”

https://thehummingbirdpodcast.com/

13/02/2024

We are back with a new episode as we continue to reflect on winter. We'd love to hear from you! How do you take care of yourself in the coldest, darkest months?

Writing, resting, going inward, the importance of self-care. Letting go. Balance. Writing through dark times. Balancing our creative life with teaching. Valuing our own rhythm. Catherine reads an e…

28/01/2024

What do you enjoy most in winter?

What might our dreams teach us? Catherine shares her poem from the Niagara Falls Poetry Project “The Water Draws.” Jessica shares her poem “When.” Plus sleep habits, reading habits and Raymond Carv…