Jack Grapes, Artist, Writer, Author, Instructor: That’s what they want, that’s what they pay for…
Film Courage: What is a transformational line?
Jack: It’s a sentence with “I” in it that you then massage to go deeper.
Film Courage: Can we have an example?
Jack: Yeah, say something with “I” in it?
Film Courage: Okay, I’ve been really thinking about my life.
Jack: Okay, so about my life is what we call The Birthday Cake, get rid of that. Okay, so now you’re left with I’ve been really thinking. Now what’s the deeper truth, what’s the answer to the question? What is the story of my life and what is the truth of who I am? The answer to that is I’ve been really thinking…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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BIO:
Jack Grapes is an award-winning poet, playwright, actor, teacher, and the editor and publisher of ONTHEBUS, one of the top literary journals in the country. He has won several publishing grants and Fellowships in Literature from the National Endowment for the Arts. He’s also received nine Artist-in- Residence Grants from the California Arts Council to teach writing in various schools throughout Los Angeles. He is the author of 13 books of poetry, including TREES, COFFEE, AND THE EYES OF DEER, and BREAKING DOWN THE SURFACE OF THE WORLD. A spoken-word CD, Pretend, was recently issued by DePaul University. He is also author of a chapbook of poems and paintings titled AND THE RUNNING FORM, NAKED, BLAKE. His most recent publication is LUCKY FINDS, a boxed set of 50 cards that extend and parody the dynamic artistic productions of high-modernist poets such as Ezra Pound and Charles Olson. For more information on Jack’s classes, please visit here.
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