Anthony Alvarado
My latest book is about creativity and also magic. D.I.Y. Magic comes out in April, it explores the interplay between perception and reality. And how altering one alters the other. It is sort of like a manual of how to get high/inspired/creative without using drugs. Reality is psychedelic.
Language, as the poet knows, is intoxicating. Words can elate, inspire, teach. Words shape our innermost ideas and ways of seeing. Therefore they have the power to mold, shape, and change reality. I became a writer because there is no more powerful thing that I could aspire to be. To shape words well is to shape reality.
Of course, the beginning to becoming a writer is to read a lot. As a child I grew up in the middle of nowhere and I read everything I could get my hands on at our small town library. I haven’t stopped reading since. Writing is just an extension of being a reader.
Language, as the poet knows, is intoxicating. Words can elate, inspire, teach. Words shape our innermost ideas and ways of seeing. Therefore they have the power to mold, shape, and change reality. I became a writer because there is no more powerful thing that I could aspire to be. To shape words well is to shape reality.
Of course, the beginning to becoming a writer is to read a lot. As a child I grew up in the middle of nowhere and I read everything I could get my hands on at our small town library. I haven’t stopped reading since. Writing is just an extension of being a reader.
