Frequent listeners will note that I often refer to dream expert Jeremy Taylor’s quote, “All dreams reflect our inborn creativity.” While the concept is that we are all creators, it’s also been demonstrated that artists of all types have used their dreams as inspiration for their work.
I thought it would be worthwhile to take a look at how one such creative works with his dreams. Michael Ruby is a poet who has used his nighttime images to craft word pictures in several of his books of poetry. In this insightful interview, Michael tells us:
•how his dreams translate into poetry
•his understanding of where creativity comes from
•why he believes we’re all fiction writers
•his technique for remembering his dreams
•how other artists record their dreams
•how is work in journalism affects his poetry
If you’re curious about the creative process and the nature of the poetic world, don’t miss this expressive episode of Dream Power Radio.
Michael Ruby is a poet and journalist who is the author of a published dream book, Dreams of the 1990s, as well as the closely related Inner Voices Heard Before Sleep, both of which appear in his trilogy in prose and poetry, Memories, Dreams and Inner Voices (Station Hill, 2012). In a subsequent ebook of prose poetry, Close Your Eyes, Ruby describes what he sees with his eyes closed. He is also the author of seven poetry books, most recently Compulsive Words (BlazeVOX, 2010), American Songbook (Ugly Duckling, 2013), The Mouth of the Bay (BlazeVOX, 2019) and The Star-Spangled Banner (Station Hill, 2020), and many poetry chapbooks and ebooks, including Fleeting Memories and Titles & First Lines. He co-edited Bernadette Mayer’s early books, Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words (Station Hill, 2015), and Mayer’s and Lewis Warsh’s collaboration Piece of Cake (Station Hill, 2020), and he is co-curator of the Station Hill Intermedia Lab in Barrytown, N.Y. He lives in Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley and works as an editor of U.S. news and political articles at The Wall Street Journal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Handler_Ruby
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