Today in The Writer's Corner: Kathy Curto on Tapping the Senses [Sing our Senses to Help Write Our Stories]

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You don’t want to miss this conversation! TODAY at 1 p.m. EST/10 a.m. PST. Join us for our first session of 2025 with author Kathy Curto on Tapping the Senses [Sing our Senses to Help Write Our Stories].

It’s the smell of Play-Doh for some of us. For others, the feel of velvet or the sound of Sinatra, Miles Davis or Nirvana. It’s that first bite into baklava, black licorice or beignets. Or maybe all it takes is looking through a pile of old family photos.

Our sensory experiences—past, present and even future—can serve as juice to get new work flowing. Giving ourselves—as writers and human beings—time and space to revisit these moments in time (and recalling the physicality of those times) can be a rich way to find openings to new work on blank pages.

Kathy Curto teaches at Sarah Lawrence College/The Writing Institute and Montclair State University as well as several nonprofit organizations and writing centers in the New York metropolitan area. She is the author of Not for Nothing-Glimpses into a Jersey Girlhood. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, on NPR, in the anthology Listen to Your Mother: What She Said Then, What We’re Saying Now, and in Barrelhouse, The Inquisitive Eater, Memoir Magazine, Oh Reader, The Mom Egg Review, Drift and Talking Writing among others. Kathy’s piece, “Still Cooking Side by Side” considered a “Modern Love in miniature” by The New York Times, was included in The Best of Tiny Love Stories in August 2021. She is co-founder of Key to the Castle Workshop and serves on the board of the Italian American Writers Association.

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