Creative Living with Jamie – Susan Wooldridge

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This podcast is 30:37.

This week’s guest: Susan Wooldridge, writer

Website: Susan Wooldridge.com
Her Books: Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words and Foolsgold: Making Something from Nothing and Freeing Your Creative Process

Susan has a B.A. in anthropology from Barnard College and an interdisciplinary masters in art and writing from CSU Chico, Chico–where she developed a love for performance art as well as collage, printmaking and ceramics. She’s held workshops on creative language and process with thousands of adults, and children, including youth-at-risk and teachers.

Susan’s book poemcrazy: freeing your life with words was published in 1996 by Clarkson Potter/Random House. According to Anne Lamott, “This is a wonderful book—smart, wide-eyed, joyful, helpful, inspiring. You’re going to love it, and love writing poetry more for having read it.” poemcrazy was a Book Sense (independent bookstore) pick. The hardcover was featured for over four years by Quality Paperback Book Club as well as Writer’s Digest Book Club. The paperback edition (Three Rivers) is in a sixteenth printing. Though most widely used by adults, poemcrazy is on the New York Public Library List of Outstanding Books for teens. Painters and songwriters as well as film makers and actors report that poemcrazy helps them loosen up, play and embrace a more creative way of being in the world. A photographer writes in Camera Arts magazine that he uses poemcrazy in his “Photoshop Master” class because “it says everything about the creative process.”

Susan’s chapbook of poems, Bathing with Ants, was published in 2004 by Bear Star Press. Her book, Foolsgold: Making Something from Nothing (and Freeing Your Creative Process) was published by Harmony (Random House). Naomi Rachel Remen, MD., author of Kitchen Table Wisdom, writes, “Foolsgold?….in a word, beautiful. Beautiful, beautiful! And, of course, a book that may save your life.” Foolsgold has been featured in both Quality Paper Back Book Club and the One Spirit catalog. Susan is currently working on another book about words and writing.

Susan is in her eighth year of a series to foster creative expression among people of all ages and backgrounds at workshops in rural California libraries sponsored by Poets and Writers organization and UCLA’s Center for the Book. She has worked in over 60 libraries. Susan was recently keynote speaker at a Project Read celebration in South San Francisco and a presenter at the Mendocino Writer’s Conference. For several years she taught at ARTFEST in Port Townsend, Washington. Her workshops have been featured in Poets and Writers magazine.

Susan helps people begin to begin to play with language and imagery. She encourages everyone to begin a collage journal and some of her workshops now include collage with found objects.

Show Notes…

In today’s intro I talked about making my Full Moon Dreamboard.
I mentioned Rachel Cole and her Well-Fed Woman series.
I mentioned the Vulnerability of Desire.
Susan mentioned Sabrina Ward Harrison and her book Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself.
She also mentioned A Course in Miracles-Original Edition.
She talked about ceramics instructor Ruth Duckworth.
I mentioned thanks to Dale Anne Potter and Manon Lavoie.
Here are the details for the Video Luv contest!

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