30/30 Poetic Vision Day: Nisa Kinsley

Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, National Poetry Month is now held every April, when schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets throughout the United States band together to celebrate poetry and its vital place in American culture. Thousands of organizations participate through readings, festivals, book displays, workshops, and other events.

In honor of this month, Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School is launching its first annual 30/30 Poetic Vision, featuring daily poems by JKS students, staff, and faculty. Our community members were asked to contemplate and engage with text as visual and audio mediums. What forms emerge in the 21st Century? How has technology changed the way we view, perform, and transmit poetry? These are a few of the questions that will be explored over the next thirty days. We hope you’ll join us on this journey.

Jack Kerouac School. WRITING THINKING BEING. The experiment continues…

Meet Nisa Kinsley - Writer, Dancer, and Spiritual Practitioner

Changing Crow & Co would like to introduce the poet, Nisa Kinsley. Nisa is working on a collection of short stories that may decide to be a novel instead. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics from the Jack Kerouac School at Naropa University. She currently works as a Writing & Wellness consultant for a coaching organization that guides writers in higher education. Nisa has a dedicated Yoga Practice and is inspired to elevate her consciousness in this lifetime.

The Creator is found in the Consciousness of the individual. #CosmicConsciousness pic.twitter.com/XmmewdSgiJ
— Nisa Kinsley (@14writer) August 12, 2014

 

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Rex Avian by Nis A Kinsley with Anne Waldman, Allan Andre, and Rachel Melville

"Princess in Tijuana @ the U.S./Mexico Border"

Reading by Denise Kinsley

Pure Beauty

Shanti Hum : I am Peace. @PeaceLoveBeanie @LoveP_E_A_C_E https://t.co/SugHDIOloC #Day3 pic.twitter.com/XYqOycXoNV
— Nisa Kinsley (@14writer) August 13, 2014

Anaïs Nin on Lou Salome Nietzsche and LSD: youtube.com/watch?v=a72IyI…
— Nisi A. Kinsley (@14writer) February 23, 2013

Review by Denise Kinsley of Making a Novel by Gerard Gavarry published in bombay gin Literary Journal

Making a Novel explores Gavarry’s revolutionary approach to language in Hoppla! 1 2 3. He takes three objects for his novel—a coconut palm tree, a cargo ship, and the centaur—and creates entire worlds around them. With these in mind, Gavarry then uses the deuterocanonical Book of Judith as a frame, writing the story of this biblical heroine from the perspective of an adolescent male character named Ti-Jus. Well versed in etymology, the scientific understanding of things, words and proper names issued from ancient Greece, Gavarry applies his knowledge to create new jargon and description for his novel Hoppla!. For example, in the first “panel” of the triptych, Gavarry uses the scientific name for the coconut palm, coco nucifera, and its flower, spadice, as the root for slang when one of Ti-Jus’ teenaged friends expresses annoyance as he tries to open a door while the train is moving, “What the Nucifera!” Another youth replies mockingly, “Spadices, dude, spadices!” Gavarry explains: 

 This language is a jargon of sorts, or something resembling jargon. Understood only by insiders, it comprises various borrowings, distortions, and wordplay, all having some connection to the coconut palm.

 Together with language, art, myth (personal or historical) and memory, Gevarry shows us that the possibilities are endless when writing a novel, and the most fascinating parts are the discoveries (from either accidents or the subconscious) the writer makes along the way. Making a Novel presents different ways to look at language, history and synchronicity. Gevarry refers to the synchronic events as “pleasant surprises”:

The times when suddenly a writer discovers that the hand of fate has worked in his favor. Or at least, this is his impression when, upon rereading his text for the umpteenth time, he suddenly apprehends an unexpected meaning or connotation, a stubborn echo of his own personal story, or a resurgence of some implicit theme he believed to have buried deep in the subtext; and likewise, while doing some research, he comes across a word he never knew existed, but which he immediately recognizes as the one he needed to complete a certain sentence.

READ THE REST: http://bombayginjournal.com/2012/03/07/gerard-gavarrys-making-a-novel/