C.
LaSandra
Cummings
C.
LaSandra
Cummings
who & how i’m being.
Any number of terms, as labels adhered, could be used to mark me, but I sense that that would be reductive to the who I'm being. Language is what I do (that's how I'm being).
current projects.
The Way It Flowers.
The Way It Flowers is a hybrid collection of poems and essays. My project is a record, a testimony of an "I" witnessing her own real-time transfiguration. An exploration in the realm of sonic possibility, my book concerns itself with language re-making (not making new language but making language new).
PERCHES: A Radio Show.
A companion project to The Way It Flowers, PERCHES is an in-depth character study. The eye of this project rests with the "I" as she wrests with logic, emotion, and intuition in pursuit of some overarching path, toward which she'll (re)calibrate her knowing, being, and doing. Her ultimate purpose? Self-actualization. The author-artist-character documents her creative process(es); the resulting audio archive is presented here, as a radio show.
Intervisions Writing Lab.
Intervisions Writing Lab is an online space engaging primarily prose writers. After finishing my MFA in Creative Writing, I established this space as a formal way to continue studying and teaching writing as a fine art. Intervisions offers practicing writers both digital and human-to-human resource options.
Click here to work with me through Intervisions.
read my work.
Select Publications:
(Essay) "Fugitively Speaking" in Callaloo, A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters Vol. 41, No. 3, Sport as Art, as Resistance
(Essay) "That Sula is a Problem to Be Thought" in SISTORIES Issue 4: Pleasure Paths
Three Poems in Studies in American Culture Special Issue: Afrofuturism
Additionally, I publish short craft essays on the Intervisions blog, Words on Words.
make contact.
I’d love to hear from you. To reach me, send electronic mail to:
clcummings1 [at] protonmail [dot] com.