Writing – Caroliena Cabada

How I wrote this week’s poems: I turned 31!

I wrote this week’s poems with the idea of learning in mind.

How I wrote this week’s poems: Objects and opposites

Photograph of pale pink flowers; one bloom is whole, the other bloom has holes in the petals.

This tricky love of museums is part of what I’ve been working through in my poems this week.

How I wrote this week’s poems: Lines and spacing

This week, I challenged myself to avoid using my go-to starters (sonnets and golden shovels) and also tried to play with space on the page.

How I wrote this week’s poems: Reliable reminders

Photograph of a lined, spiral-bound notebook open with writing on the left page. Shadows from the spiral binding are cast to the left, onto the writing.

This week, many of the poems I had drafted were based on some reliable prompts I use to help me get started.

Support me through May 30/30 with Tupelo Press!

Photograph of a laptop, some notebooks, and a water bottle on a table with a window view in the background.

During the month of May, I’m writing poems for Tupelo Press’s 30/30 challenge!

How I wrote “Cyanistes caeruleus”

A photograph of a desk with some open notebooks and books, two computer monitors, and a laptop open.

For this blog post, I wanted to talk a bit more about my writing process, since I wrote this poem last semester and I kept some notes about how I wrote it.

jmww 2013-2022 anthology now available!

cover of JMWW 2013-2022 anthology published by Modern Times. The cover features green and blue color block squares.

I’m incredibly honored that my flash fiction piece “Star Count of Orion,” originally published in 2020, is among the pieces selected for the 2013-2022 jmww anthology! The anthology is available now: ebooks and paperback copies are available on Amazon. jmww was one of my first acceptances after a few years off from writing and submittingContinue reading “jmww 2013-2022 anthology now available!”

When writing begets writing

As I write this blog, I sort of understand the impulse to write so much lead-in. I’ve shared the big news: now where do I go from here?

I used to write so much

Photograph out a large window at an autumnal scene. A notebook with some handwriting is blurred in the foreground.

Every semester I try to do the assignments along with my students partly as a way for me to keep up my own writing practice (I write things I turn in for my classes sometimes), and partly to experience for myself what my students experience when I walk them through a multi-stage writing prompt, or set draft deadlines at certain intervals.

New Story: “One Fall” in Five on the Fifth

Screenshot of the cover page of Five on the Fifth, Vol. 8, Issue 1

I’m thrilled to share that my short story, “One Fall,” is now published in Five on the Fifth!