#creative voices

BLOG: Nubya Garcia features in Vogue magazine's global creativity issues

Congratulations to CICAS® artist Nubya Garcia, featured in all 27 international issues of Vogue magazine, celebrating “the most exciting creative voices of our times.”  Nubya is one of the leading lights in the resurgence of jazz-influenced sounds and one of its prime Afro-futurist exports. Read more in the Creativity special issue, 29th January at…

Found Poem from The New York Times Book Review; Sunday, November 18, 2018

New York Ladies: PARKER, Selected Stories By Dorothy Parker. Reviewed by Sadie Stein 

Two New York broads of urban legend known as martini metaphors, too often 

reduced to a quip on a coffee mug; chroniclers of contemporary New York

flapper highs and breadline lows. Downtown speakeasies rocked by 

a hard-boiled world and…

Creative Voices: How Gardening Grows My Creativity

People often ask me, “When do you write?” I know they want to know what time of day am I able to carve out hours at a computer to type up my column or blog post. They want to know if I wake up before the kids do, or stay up late past their bedtime (and mine) to crank out my latest literary project. The thing is, there is so much more to my creativity than the time my fingers tap-tap-tap on the…

Creative Voices: How Gardening Grows My Creativity

People often ask me, “When do you write?” I know they want to know what time of day am I able to carve out hours at a computer to type up my column or blog post. They want to know if I wake up before the kids do, or stay up late past their bedtime (and mine) to crank out my latest literary project. The thing is, there is so much more to my creativity than the time my fingers tap-tap-tap on the…

Creative Voices: All You Need is Love … Lots of It

In a recent conversation about babies, I flashed back 8 years to the earliest months spent with my newborn son. Those days were precious, if drunkenly enjoyed on the nectar of way too little sleep. And for me, the earliest most sleep-deprived months were spent in a kind of washed ignorance. Postpartum Depression didn’t set in until three months postpartum. I was hopelessly devoted, in service to…

Creative Voices: Writing is a Healing Tool

“How many of you have written in a journal?” I ask a group of 18 adults I have never seen before. A few of them raise their hands. “How about poetry? Have you written poems?” Some hands drop and a couple more shoot up. I nod, and inside me my excitement grows. Over the next two hours, my colleague and I have the fulfilling job of introducing writing as a healing tool to these brave and vulnerable…

Creative Voices: Finding Your Story as a Creative Parent

It’s funny what sticks out in your memory; seemingly trivial moments are often remembered with the greatest clarity. Two months into the most shocking emotion of my life, I remember standing at the window in my front hall. Snow was gracing the ground with fresh flakes of brilliant white and the sky was a deep deep blue. I remember in vivid detail the thoughts and emotions running through me. It…