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Kiini Ibura Salaam 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. Kiini'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.listBronx High School for Performance and Stagecraft // Congress // inspiration // Jackson Shafer // nurturing courage // student poetry // teacher // Tierney Cahill
Vol. 62, On Education and Courage
Posted on 10 February 2009
I recently picked up a book called Ms. Cahill for Congress from the free book box at my job. At first glance, I had no intention of reading it, but when I read the back cover copy, I was intrigued. It reads: “You can’t run for office in this country unless you’re a millionaire or… »
BlogKIS.listadvice // artist life // ego // how to keep going // inspiration // rejection/acceptance o'meter // rejections // staying committed // staying inspired // struggles // what is art
Vol. 38, Crisis of Faith
Posted on 4 December 2003
New York Recently three people close to me were going through crises of faith. I believe crises of faith are intrinsic to artistic (and human) growth. Usually, a crisis is brought on when something is not the way we expected it to be. Your friend or partner shows her/himself to be completely different from who… »
BlogKIS.listartist life // class // inspiration // language // reading // reading race // rejection // rejection/acceptance o'meter // writing life
Vol. 29, Keeping It Real
Posted on 24 November 2002
Thoughts on Artistic Expression I was recently, once again, in discussion with my father about the students in his high school video production workshop. He teaches one segment to a student body in an impoverished high school and another in a more privileged magnet school. He mentioned that his students at the poorer school had… »
BlogKIS.listasemic // Clarion West // communication // creativity // Dominican Republic // experimental fiction // freewriting // inspiration // Kiini Ibura Salaam // 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,… »