Guest - Brandon Williamson - A Slam Poet Shares His Life of Creativity

Our guest for the sixth episode of the Creative Flow: Thinkers and Change Agents Podcast Series is Brandon Williamson. He is a Creativity Consultant, an Admissions Counselor at Fredonia State University of New York as well as the founder and creator of the internationally recognized Pure Ink Poetry Slam. Brandon shares his love of all things creative and how applying the intellectual side of the topics that he studies helped him achieve successes with multi-cultural groups on the SUNY Fredonia campus, minorities in the Department of Justice and in diversity workshops. In this most entertaining episode, Brandon discusses how he uses a tool called Forced Connections in his poetry to help change perspectives so a poem can touch and move his audience. One of the insights he often shares in his workshops is “Creativity is the catalyst for change. Creativity is not the icing on the cake, it is the cake.” Listen to the end for a performance of one of his favorite poems called Buffalo Wings that ties into his feelings about his home, the City of Buffalo, NY.