Creative Writing: Make Viral Digital Literature
About Me
A course by Ben Clark , Poet, Translator, and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: About Me
Overview
“I'm going to tell you a little about myself and my work. Also, I'm going to tell you a secret: it's the best time in history to write poetry. ”
In this video lesson Ben Clark addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Writing: Make Viral Digital Literature. Learn how to write poems that go viral on social media using creative writing techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Presentation Hi, I'm Ben Clark. Thank you for choosing this Domestika course. To start, I would like to tell you a little about myself and my work and I want to tell you a secret right now, It is the best time to write poetry. I am a poet, translator and professor of poetic writing. I was born on the island of Ibiza, although my parents are British, That's why I have such a Spanish name. I grew up in a very creative environment because my father is a potter, but as far as I know there were no poetry books at home, but, since we spoke English at home and Spanish and Catalan at school, I bega...”
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Course summary for: Creative Writing: Make Viral Digital Literature
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Creative Writing, Creativity, Social Media, Writing
Ben Clark
A course by Ben Clark
Ben Clark is a poet and translator who's been professionally devoted to literature since one of his poems went viral in 2011. He's studied the relationship between poetic texts and social media and has launched digital initiatives such as #Coronaversos, prompting others to share poetry during the pandemic.
Ben has received multiple awards for his books, including the 2021 Hiperión de Poesía award for Los hijos de los hijos de la ira (2006), the RNE Critical Eye Awards for poetry for La Fiera (2014), and the 30th International Poetry Prize from the Loewe Foundation for La policía celeste (2017).
He is also a poetry mentor at the Fundación Antonio Gala para Jóvenes Creadores and a poetry professor in the Spanish creative writing master's program at the University of Salamanca.
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