46 min
Finding Your Truth Through Writing with Andrea Carter Brown S1E44 Arts For The Health Of It
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- Health & Fitness
"We needed new memories." - Andrea Carter Brown
Andrea Carter Brown lived 1 block away from the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. She thankfully lived to tell about it and has written an entire book of poetry about the days after. Andrea's new collection of award-winning poetry, September 12, was published for the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Her previous collections are Domestic Karma, The Disheveled Bed, and Brook & Rainbow. Her poems have won awards from Five Points, River Styx, The MacGuffin, and PSA, and are cited in the Library of Congress Online Guide to the Poetry of 9/11. Formerly a Founding Editor of Barrow Street, she has been Series Editor of The Word Works Washington Prize since 2017. An avid birder, she lives in Los Angeles, where she grows lemons, limes, oranges, and tangerines in her backyard.
From Andrea:
"Not everyone is a "writer," but everyone writes. Value your thoughts by writing them down. Any way that works for you. As a "Note" on your cell phone. Keep a small notebook and pen always with you. Do not be embarrassed or shy about pausing in your life to write something down. Some people keep a journal or diary, but I always found the idea of that intimidating. What did I have to say that was worth writing down? Only when I allowed myself to write only when it struck me as interesting, even a word I liked, a snippet of overheard conversation, a remembered dream, a quote I liked, a book I wanted to read, did I learn what was going on inside me . . . and to understand it better."
Connect with Andrea:
www.andreacarterbrown.com
Facebook: Andrea Carter Brown
Twitter: @AndreaBrownPoet
Instagram: @andreabrownpoet
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artsforthehealthofit/support
"We needed new memories." - Andrea Carter Brown
Andrea Carter Brown lived 1 block away from the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. She thankfully lived to tell about it and has written an entire book of poetry about the days after. Andrea's new collection of award-winning poetry, September 12, was published for the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Her previous collections are Domestic Karma, The Disheveled Bed, and Brook & Rainbow. Her poems have won awards from Five Points, River Styx, The MacGuffin, and PSA, and are cited in the Library of Congress Online Guide to the Poetry of 9/11. Formerly a Founding Editor of Barrow Street, she has been Series Editor of The Word Works Washington Prize since 2017. An avid birder, she lives in Los Angeles, where she grows lemons, limes, oranges, and tangerines in her backyard.
From Andrea:
"Not everyone is a "writer," but everyone writes. Value your thoughts by writing them down. Any way that works for you. As a "Note" on your cell phone. Keep a small notebook and pen always with you. Do not be embarrassed or shy about pausing in your life to write something down. Some people keep a journal or diary, but I always found the idea of that intimidating. What did I have to say that was worth writing down? Only when I allowed myself to write only when it struck me as interesting, even a word I liked, a snippet of overheard conversation, a remembered dream, a quote I liked, a book I wanted to read, did I learn what was going on inside me . . . and to understand it better."
Connect with Andrea:
www.andreacarterbrown.com
Facebook: Andrea Carter Brown
Twitter: @AndreaBrownPoet
Instagram: @andreabrownpoet
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/artsforthehealthofit/support
46 min