Creative Writing: Make Viral Digital Literature
A preliminary reflection
A course by Ben Clark , Poet, Translator, and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: A preliminary reflection
Overview
“Before publishing the poem, we will spend a moment reflecting on the literary quality and the role of our text within the river of literature.”
In this video lesson Ben Clark addresses the topic: A preliminary reflection, 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
“A preliminary reflection In this lesson we are going to spend a moment to reflect, before posting our poetic text, on literary quality, the role of the reader and what role our poetic text will play within the great river of literature. Let's start by asking ourselves what a reader is. It is a complex question. Perhaps we could ask ourselves what we want as readers. Do we want them to just entertain us or to give us something, that invite us to reflect, that take us to a different place, To a place we didn't know? The reader, the readers, the readers of the world they are not passive people...”
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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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