How are you creative?
With Poeaxtry and the Prism creations creativity is not a single act, it is a network of choices, practices, and systems that produce many works with multiple meanings. Works are over time, across forms, mediums, and or lived experiences. I create through many different types of poetry collections, digital magazines, short stories, multiple curated freebies, visual design, blogging, ritual, craft, indie publishing, and community building.
These practices all are used in a way that is reinforcing the others, each project designed for future forward thinking, accessibility, and connecting with others.
This post will document how I am creative in action, not theory, and then it shows how a multi-disciplinary practice generates advocacy, community care, and minority motivation through creativity.
Comment below the different ways you are creative or centered in community care! Let’s share and grow together!
Poetry
Poetry is the foundation of my creative practice, spanning themes like grief, politics, intimacy, survival, love, joy, and refusal,(just to name a few) across collections, digital freebies, quarterly zines, and ongoing work. I design every poem to function as a standalone piece, a thematic entry in a collection, or any spark of line that pops in my mind. I use observation, memory, emotional truth, and craft to transform experience into language, shaping rhythm, meaning, resonance, and reader reflection.
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Digital Free Quarterly Magazine
The digital free quarterly magazine is a curated, layered, intentional creative project. That may include poetry, short prose, essays, visuals, ads for indie creatives etc, contributor work, and more sequenced for rhythm, accessibility, and community care. This is designed in Canva Pro, hosted webpage, serving as both community collaboration and minority movement. All indie and minority inclusions free to build and include work.
Minority/ Marginalized community members may submit up to 10 poems, 10 art pieces (digital or photographic high definition), 2 prose, and or 2 essays . Allied creators with supportive works may submit 1/2 of the above cap. Submit by emailing poeaxtry@gmail.com or form.
Short Stories
Short stories one of the newer creative avenues in my experimental creative endeavors. These allow narrative exploration beyond poetry, experimenting with pacing, tension, voice, drafted, refined, and launched when the right format is finalized. Genres including horror-gore, splatter-punk, and or erotica layered together and creating space to confront fear, power, or boundary.
Refusal as Creative Act
Refusal in itself is a creative decision, choosing to publish, without willingness to conform. To continue holding space for deeper work, rejecting exploitative trends, building sustainable creative practices, preserving integrity, impact showing in project longevity, audience trust, and the ability to iterate without compromise, commas marking pause, consideration, deliberation.
Hiking and Observation as Source Material
Hiking and observation provide primary source material for different poems, blog posts, curated content, imagery, narrative inspiration, and more. Documentation through hiking journals, photos, videos, emotional reflections in authentic detail, and more.
Systems and Strategy as Creative Problem Solving
Systems and strategy turn scattered creative work into sustainable practice, organized collections, managing different free and paid offerings, streamlining digital publications, maintaining workflow across multiple platforms, ensuring creative output, and more
Visual Design as Storytelling
Visual design communicates narrative and tone, from digital magazine layouts, cover art, artistic spacing, typography, color, visually themed elements across collections, poem images (full poems or selected lines posted on socials/ website) . These things work to reinforce the emotional impact of literary work, and are designed in Canva Pro for consistency, readability, and aesthetic clarity.
Blog Writing as Living Documentation
Blog writing captures process, reflection, and documentation of ongoing creative practice, hikes, local outdoor historical or artistic places, calls for arc readers/ collabs/ street team and more, emotional journals, daily and random prompts, newsletters & small project memos, free indie spotlights, minority positivity, call outs of people in the media/ politics promoting bigotry, poems, and much more.
Community Building as Collaborative Art
Community building is creative labor, curating contributors, centering minority voices, hosting collaborations, structuring submissions, balancing recognition and visibility, creating interactive spaces, creative contests, giveaways, planning virtual and local open mic nights, and more.
Submit Collaboration proposal, manuscript, art book, etc for Publishing by emailing poeaxtryspoetryprism@gmail.com or form. Volunteer to Mod community spaces or curation etc for community collabs and more email poeaxtry@gmail.com or submit this form
Ritual and Spellwork as Intentional Design
Ritual and spellwork translate intention into structured action, combining symbolism, timing, materials, and purpose. This are made to impact both maker and recipient.
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Handmade Craft as Grounded Creation
Handmade craft embeds creativity in the physical, tactile, and material, including rockhounding, tumbling, polishing, lapidary art, jewelry design and making, keychains, wands, wreaths, windchimes, natural sprays, tinctures, beanies, shirts, hybrid print pamphlets, small printable/ digital use zines, and much more. By creating functional objects from raw stone, bones, crystals, wood, herbs, and more, design reflects manifestation/emotion/ etc.
Indie Publishing as Architecture
Indie publishing is the architecture that holds all creative output, from solo collections, poetry, collaborative projects, structuring, sequencing, designing, optimizing, and distributing work, ensuring longevity, discoverability, and accessibility.
I am creative through layered, intentional practice, through poetry, digital publications, short stories, hiking, visual design, blogging, rituals, craft, and indie publishing, each practice informing the others, each project structured for longevity, visibility, and impact, connection, the ongoing evolution of work, creativity as living, adaptive, functional. These are all deeply embedded in process and practice.
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