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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.listartist identity // comedy clubs // community // critiques // John Scott // Kalamu ya Salaam // Keturah Kendricks // MFA // Nommo // rejection // Rivers of Honey // sharing // stand-up // Tom Dent // Writer // writing life // writing struggles // writing workshops
Vol. 24, At Nommo Writing Workshop
Posted on 25 May 2002
New Orleans, LA Every time I come home to New Orleans I sit in on my father Kalamu ya Salaam’s writing workshop. It’s called Nommo and usually has a diverse group of six to eight active members at every meeting. The workshop is not for sissies. The evenings are long and the meetings are frequent…. »