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I Spent $236.11 on Perfume Samples While Avoiding Writing My New Novel Project (So You Don’t Have To)

Notes on avoidance, desire, and convincing myself into getting a signature scent for my manuscript.
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Passage collage from Helene Cixous’ "Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing"
[156] We must work. The earth of writing. To the point of becoming the earth. Humble work. Without reward. Except joy.
 • KP Kaszubowski
Constellations of imagery ✨ / lyric threads lab: week 7 of 7
Stanley Kunitz once said that each poet has a "constellation of key images, their instantly recognizable beat."
 • KP Kaszubowski
The origins and landscapes of your voice / lyric threads lab: week 6 of 7
A guided visualization for meeting the sound and ancestors of your natural voice, for writers and for speakers
 • KP Kaszubowski
Invented, borrowed, and combined forms 🦴 / lyric threads lab: week 5 of 7
Writing in form and anti-form, and writing with other people's language bits
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Contradiction, negative capability, and equipoise ⚖️ / lyric threads lab: week 4
Using the astrological houses to craft a catalog poem, re-collecting events of loss and gain to fold together
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Associative leaping and streams of consciousness 🚣‍♀️🌊🌳 / lyric threads lab: week 3
"Towns are the illusion that things hang together somehow, my pear, your winter." - Anne Carson
 • KP Kaszubowski
Obstructions and following the brush 🔥 / lyric threads lab: week 2
On the tenth muse, the lyric poem vs. the lyric essay, and writing with the brush
 • KP Kaszubowski
Critique, response, cohort 🌩️ / lyric threads lab: week 1
On creating a container for writers to share thoughts in the workshop format + a writing prompt at the bottom
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Mad Libs and writing together
a Mad Lib poem (with Diane di Prima), co-authoring and collaborative poetry, form and format, astrological themes of co-dreaming and the dissolution of…
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