Coconino Community College - Flagstaff

Join botanist/artist Kate Watters and poet Linda Maria Alvarado for a morning focused on flowers, friendship, and fancy phrases! Learn techniques for flower-pressing, writing nature-inspired verse, and how to combine the two. Each participant will create a poem using manual typewriters, and decorated with pressed flowers, resulting in a perfect Mother’s Day gift, or a personal keepsake. Materials are included, but please bring a notebook and pen for writing practice. 

Linda completed a certificate in creative writing from UCLA Extension in 2024, and her poems are published by the Museum of Northern Arizona’s Poetry Maps project, where she serves as a poet laureate . She has a BA in Fine Arts, MA in Anthropology, and her business, Paperclip Poetry, provides custom poems at events throughout Northern Arizona.

Kate Watters founded Wild Heart Farm in Rimrock, Arizona after nearly 20 years studying and restoring wild lands as a botanist. She grows food, flowers, medicine and biological diversity and teaches sustainable gardening and permaculture.  Her creative mission is to explore the details and diversity of people and places through writing, music, gardening, and art.

Minor children:

• If you are bringing a child, the minimum age for this course is 12. Children will receive a discount of $30.
• Please limit your registration to two per adult.
• Please call with any questions on children attending: 928-226-4174.