My poem based on this photograph has been published. You can read it here.
Memento Mori
writing
Find Your Tribe
I’ve heard it said that it’s important to find your people — that place you belong where your talents are celebrated, and your quirks embraced. Where you can unapologetically be yourself. Where being a misnomer – finding the who. The place doesn’t matter, it’s the people there that make up the tribe.
It took me so long time 0to find my tribe. To find my purpose. To find my calling.
I am a writer. My brother and sister writers are my people. For once, I feel like I don’t have to explain myself. I can just be.
I can breathe easy.
Continue readingThe Black Panther Needs to Sprawl
A year ago, I had the privilege of being published in Hippocampus Magazine’s Writing Life Column. The following is the editor’s note about my essay:
Editor’s Note: Connie Kinsey’s essay is ekphrastic. It’s a vivid description of a work of art, its meaning expanded through her imagining. The art is the painting La Panthère Noire des Buttes-Chaumont, (The Black Panther of Buttes-Chaumont) by artist Kinga Katanics. Parc des Buttes-Chaumont is a Paris park.
You can read the essay here.
Power of the Prompt: Provoked to Write workshop
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