In this episode, Brendan Lorber shares his multifaceted career as a poet, visual artist, and teacher, exploring how living many lives enriches creativity.

We talk about the power of maps as a metaphor for life, the importance of serendipity, and the impact of AI on art and consciousness.

Check out Brendan’s work at: www.brendanlorber.com

Brendan Lorber is a writer, visual artist, and teacher. He is the author of If this is paradise why are we still driving? (subpress, 2018) and several chapbooks, most recently Unfixed Elegy and Other Poems. He’s had work in The American Poetry Review, Brooklyn Rail, Fence, McSweeney’s, The Recluse, and elsewhere.

He hosts Overhear a cross-generational reading series in Brooklyn in which at least one reader must live within walking distance of the venue. He edited Lungfull! Magazine, currently in hibernation, an annual anthology of contemporary literature that prints the rough draft of contributors’ work, to reveal the creative process. He’s also edited The Poetry Project Newsletter, taught writing workshops, and curated both the Zinc Bar Reading Series and the Segue Foundation Reading Series.

His visual art is in The Museum of Modern Art, The Free Black Women’s Library, Opus 40 Gallery, Artists Space, The Free Library of Philadelphia, The Woodland Pattern Center, The Scottish Poetry Library, and in private collections. It’s been featured on CNN, NBC’s The Today Show, and Oprah.

He is also a graphic designer with a wide-ranging body of work that includes major campaign rollouts, new visions for cultural organizations, and innovative compositions for artists and musicians.

To further explore the possibilities of what these artforms can accomplish, he teaches classes on fantasy cartography, workshops on poetry, and gives talks on design. He lives in a little observatory in a Brooklyn neighborhood that nobody can quite find on a map.

www.brendanlorber.com