Creative Writing: Make Viral Digital Literature
The theme of the poem
A course by Ben Clark , Poet, Translator, and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: The theme of the poem
Overview
“In this lesson we are going to explore possible themes for a poetic text. ”
In this video lesson Ben Clark addresses the topic: The theme of the poem, 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
“The theme of the poem In this lesson we will see one of the most fundamental questions for our poetic text: which is the topic? There is no poetic text without a theme. The theme of our poetic text will define not only what we are talking about, but how we talk about it. For our final project, we will select the theme of identity. It is a subject that interests me a lot. having been raised in two different cultures, but it is an issue that we can address in very different ways. We can talk about gender identity. We can talk about identity throughout life. We can talk about identity in many ...”
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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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