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K. Ibura is a writer, painter, and traveler from New Orleans, Louisiana. The middle child of five, she grew up in a hardscrabble neighborhood with oak and fig trees, locusts and mosquitoes, cousins and neighbors. K. Ibura's work delves into spheres of human liberation, human connection, and evolution. She employs speculative fiction and creative nonfiction to take readers through mind-bending journeys into the transcendent, the mystical, and the fantastic.
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BlogKIS.listartmaking // creativity // inspiration // taking risks // The Salt Eaters // Toni Cade Bambara // writing
Vol. 94: Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters
Posted on 7 June 2013
When I was younger, my mother’s bookshelf was my library. It was home to many novels that are central to Black woman’s literature. I could grasp plots that featured grown-up experiences, but much of the subtext and external references escaped me. This didn’t stop me from voraciously consuming everything I could get my hands on… »
BlogKIS.listartmaking // creativity // Elizabeth Gilbert // Khalil Gibran // Ruth Stone // self-criticism // self-respect // TED talk // The Prophet // writer's block
Vol. 65, Following Your Ideas
Posted on 16 May 2009
As human beings, we do a lot of damage to ourselves. Sometimes the most heinous damage we do to ourselves may seem the most benign. It is impossible to tell the toll of those voices—those internal voices that we have running through our minds on continuous loop—the voices that say we aren’t good enough, funny… »
BlogKIS.listAl Green // creativity // Humanity // Immanuel Kant quote // imperfection // MTA Poetry in Motion
Vol. 64, Perfection
Posted on 22 April 2009
In the subways of New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) advertising is ubiquitous. Paid advertising lines the walls of subway cars. Ads hang overhead and lurk around at eye level. Entrepreneurs hijack the paid advertising by attaching their own flyers and stickers to the glossy surface of the “legitimate” ads. Up until last year, the… »
BlogKIS.listapplications // completion // creativity // finishing projects // grants // kiini // KIS.list // pitching // publication // rejection // rejection/acceptance o'meter // self worth // Sue Shapiro
Vol. 17, Contemplation on Completion
Posted on 28 January 2002
Brooklyn, New York A few months ago, someone suggested I pitch the KIS.list to print publications. They envisioned a syndicated column in magazines and/or newspapers nationwide. This idea interests me, and I thought I’d put it off until later, but then I decided, why not do it now. It took more work than I expected… »
BlogKIS.listBullshit or Fertilizer // Clarion West // craft of writing // creativity // How to Find Your Mission in Life // imani // kiini // kis.lis // kujichagulia // kuumba // Kwanaza // nia // Pierre Bennu // Richard Bolles // ujamaa // ujima // umoja // writing advice
Vol. 16, Kwanzaa in Art, Writing, and Life
Posted on 3 January 2002
During my childhood, Kwanzaa was the only holiday my family celebrated. No birthdays, no New Year’s hoopla, no Christmas. Kwanzaa was a time of morning candle lighting and discussion of the Nguzo Saba (the seven principles of Kwanzaa) and evening cultural celebrations. One of my most memorable Kwanzaa moments was in the early 90s. My… »
BlogKIS.listasemic // Clarion West // communication // creativity // Dominican Republic // experimental fiction // freewriting // inspiration // K. Ibura // KIS.list // language // Nalo Hopkinson // Red Clay // rejection // techniques // word play // Writer // writer's block // writing // writing life // zine
Vol. 7, Freewriting and Asemic Writing
Posted on 27 September 2001
A few months ago Tim Gaze, a zine editor interested in experimental fiction asked me to write a piece for his zine. He had read the first speculative short story I had ever written, “Of Wings, Nectar, and Ancestors,” in the literary journal Anansi and wanted to read more similar work. In “Of Wings, Nectar,… »
