The concluding presentation to my creative writing course from professionals in other creative disciplines was done by Bryan Thao Worra, whom I first met at a small conference in Minnesota called Fantasy Matters. Bryan is the first Laotian American poet to receive a Fellowship in Literature from the National Endowment for the Arts, and if you have a chance to read his work you’ll understand why–it’s interesting, creative, and often startling in its insight and reach. Here Bryan explains some of the differences in the way most people see the world as compared to how a poet is trained to see it.
Creativity across disciplines
I’m cross-posting this from the Academic section of my site, since this obviously ties in directly to my writing career: I’ve been including presentations from creative professionals in different fields as a part of my course on creative writing for many years…I’m happy that I finally remembered to actually film parts of these presentations this […]
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