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What is a Personal Brand?
Branding and marketing are very complex tasks that can be even more difficult when it is yourself that you are marketing. However, creating a personal brand is essential to perfecting not only the image other people have of you but the image you have of yourself. I like to say that a personal brand forms when the person people see you as, the person you see yourself as, and the person you want to be seen align. A personal brand tells people who you are and what you are good at, which is important for both personal and professional relations. I had a really cool professor, Morgan Miles, who assigned…
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Broadsides: Getting Creative with Writing Poetry
Writing poetry has been a passion of mine forever, but I have always kept it to myself, hidden in the depths of a google doc. However, I recently explored the broadside as a creative form and found that it was such a cool way to display my poetry. Broadsides are a single printed page used in advertising and marketing or just to display something. Using photoshop, I combined my original poetry and a photograph taken by @Filippo Loco/Caters News into this broadside. Hope you enjoy it!
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A Self-Publishing Celebration
San Diego State provides so many classes that go beyond just learning and extend to hands-on experience. One such class that I have the privilege to be taking is a Literary Editing and Publishing Workshop with Kirsten I.K. Flournoy. For this class, I am a part of a group responsible for creating and self-publishing a chapbook from start to finish, including the development of our own imagined publishing house called Iris Publishing Press. Our chapbook will be published by April 24th and shortly after we are planning a launch party. The date is TBD, likely anytime from mid-April to early May, but stay tuned for the updated event details.
