Creative Writing: Make Viral Digital Literature
Poetry and social networks
A course by Ben Clark , Poet, Translator, and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: Poetry and social networks
Overview
“I am going to show you how poetic texts interact with social networks and why they are an ideal space to share this type of text. ”
In this video lesson Ben Clark addresses the topic: Poetry and social networks, 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
“Poetry and social networks Until now, social networks have used poetic texts to feed the feelings of its users and create spaces of affection and community to share their ideas. On Twitter, for example, users use the word more directly, more interactively, looking to interact with users. On Instagram, on the other hand, we find a use of the word as a more visual element. A social network is an ideal space for a poetic text for various reasons. On the one hand, the sometimes necessary brevity, as in the case of Twitter, and sometimes desirable, like Instagram within an image they make the fo...”
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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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