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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.listcraft of writing // kiini // KIS.list // limitations // novel writing // structure // writing advice // writing strategies // writing struggles
Vol. 32, Freeing Your Work Through Limitations
Posted on 5 April 2003
The idea for this month’s column was sparked during a recent conversation with my mother. My mother is at the bitter end of her struggle to complete her Ph.D. In the final throes of her dissertation, she finds herself pulled in more than one direction. On the one hand she wants to explore all her… »
BlogKIS.listabara // acaraje // Bahia // Brazil // dende // feijoada // kiini // KIS.list // language // market // Portuguese // Salvador
Vol. 22, In Brazil: Bahian Food
Posted on 15 March 2002
Salvador, Bahia Brazil When I returned from Lençois, my sneakers were so dirty, I decided to just leave them in the plastic bag I transported them in. On a rainy morning, a few weeks after my return, I decided to wear my sneakers instead of the customary flip-flops. I pulled my sneakers out of 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.listacceptance // Basquiat // Bronx Museum of Art // Carl Hancock Rux // Carlos Esteves // commodity // context in art // Culture // Dario Robleto // Fernando Rodriguez // Francisco de la Cal // hip hop // interpreting art // K. Ibura // Keith Haring // kiini // Kori Newkirk // Mel Chin // One Planet Under a Groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art // value of art // visual art // Whitney // Won't be no Black Male show today
Vol. 14, Visual Art
Posted on 12 December 2001
Bronx Museum of the Arts Bronx, NY Webster’s II New Riverside Dictionary (which is the only dictionary I can get my hand on at the moment) defines “art” as: 1. Creative or imaginative activity, esp. the expressive arrangement of elements within a medium 2. Works, as paintings, that result from this creativity. Now it’s intriguing… »