Creative Writing: Make Viral Digital Literature
The importance of going beyond
A course by Ben Clark , Poet, Translator, and Creative Writing Teacher
About the video: The importance of going beyond
Overview
“I want to invite you to reflect on the importance of evolving and proposing new forms of poetic texts. ”
In this video lesson Ben Clark addresses the topic: The importance of going beyond, 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 importance of going beyond In this lesson we will reflect on the importance of evolving and to propose new modalities of poetic texts. We have already worked on our poem. We have traveled a long way in which we have seen literary resources, how to build a poetic text following some specific models, but I invite you to go further, to seek an evolution within your own poetics. Perhaps with time you will find a style, a space, in which you feel comfortable, a place from which to write that goes very well for you. That is the moment when you have to try to go further. You have to force your...”
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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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