List of Awesome Things You Have to Do
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
Make a video starring yourself
Make a book of comics
Write a poem about dating men from specific countries: one poem per country.
Also, same idea but states
Make an mc brainiac outfit, for new nerdy rap character
Do one small self portrait in ink a day in a self-portrait only book
Do portraits of friends on fabric and make a quilt
Take a Polaroid camera and make a book.
Collect rocks that look like my friends
Make a mix tape that will make guys fall in love with you
Make a big book of correspondence
More funny poems
One cussless week
Make money to buy food and clothing.
CRISTIN O’KEEFE APTOWICZ is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Everything is Everything. She is also the the author of the nonfiction book, Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam, which Billy Collins wrote “leaves no doubt that the slam poetry scene has achieved legitimacy and taken its rightful place on the map of contemporary literature.” Most recently, Aptowicz was named the 2010-2011 ArtsEdge Writer-In-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania to work on a book about medical oddities. For more information, please visit her website at www.aptowicz.com.
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