Andrea Carter Brown – poetry and positivity

Creativity Found: finding creativity later in life

09/04/22 • 62 min

Escaping the horrors of 9/11 on foot, and coming to temrs with the experiences through poetry.
Andrea Carter Brown fell in love with reading poetry as an angsty teenager, but couldn’t bring herself to try writing it because she was put off by the high standard of the works she read.
‘If I couldn’t write like the greats, I wasn’t going to try.’
Many years later Andrea’s friend took her to a New York poetry reading and, in that darkened room, Andrea began writing her own poetry on the only paper she could quickly find, and for weeks afterward she did nothing but write, letting years of pent-up poetry spill out of her.
Fast forward and Andrea has published a number of poetry collections, including one about her experiences of escaping on foot from her apartment close to the World Trade Center on 9/11, and the effects of that experience on her and her community in the 20 years in between the event and her publishing the collection, entitled September 12.
In this episode Andrea also reads one of the poems from September 12, that she chose specially for us at Creativity Found.
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Researched, edited and produced by Claire Waite Brown
Music: Day Trips by Ketsa Undercover / Ketsa Creative Commons License Free Music Archive - Ketsa - Day Trips
Artworks: Emily Portnoi emilyportnoi.co.uk
Photo: Ella Pallet

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09/04/22 • 62 min

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Creativity Found: finding creativity later in life - Andrea Carter Brown – poetry and positivity

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How could I have lucked out to have this Charmed, fulfilment of the circle that began when I fled that morning.

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Hi, I'm Claire, founder of creativity found a community for creative learners and educators, connecting adults who want to find a creative outlet with the artists and crafters who can help them do so. With workshops, courses, online events and kits. For this podcast, I chat with people who have found or refound their creativit

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