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POETRY WRITING WORKSHOP REGISTRATION OPENS
Try something new or hone existing literary skills with a poetry writing workshop this Spring. The Plumas County Arts Commission will be presenting a “poemcrazy workshop” with Susan Wooldridge on Saturday, March 12, 2005 from 10 am to 4 pm at the Yoga & Wellness Center in East Quincy. Registration is now open, but space is limited. Interested participants are advised to call 283-3402 to register soon.
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This workshop is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation and is offered as a part of the 2005 Plumas County Literary Celebration brought to you through the combined efforts of the Plumas Arts and Feather River College CARE & CalWORK’s Programs.
Other celebration activities a include a literary competition and publication with it’s Awards Luncheon at 12:30 PM on Friday, March 11th and with a reading by Susan Wooldridge who will also be the featured reader at Morning Thunder Café in Quincy at 7:00 PM on Thursday, March 10th. For more details about the competition contact Jody Beynon at Feather River College at (530) 283-0202 x288.
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Workshop presenter Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge, a twenty year veteran poet/teacher with California Poets in the Schools as well as with adults, teachers and youth-at risk, brings tools and techniques to a workshop designed to make you feel excited about writing (and teaching) poetry. Susan has found that in a safe, free setting, surrounded with words, most everyone can write poems and they’re often extraordinary.
Susan starts workshop attendees off playing with language. First, she helps participants create “wordpools,” helping us to see we’re all immersed in an ocean of words we largely ignore. Participants will learn to create images, practice close observation, begin to develop metaphor, and gradually move into “dreamsense,” where they can more easily explore who we are, where we come from and where we’re going.
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Music, paintings and “word tickets” are all used to help us enter the realm where we begin to write poems that express more than words can say, an act Allen Ginsberg called “ordinary magic.”
Susan’s book poemcrazy: freeing your life with words was published in May 1996 by Clarkson Potter/ Random House. The hardcover edition went into five printings, was selected by Quality Paperback Book Club and Writer’s Digest Book Club. poemcrazy is now on the Book Sense (Independent Bookstores) best-seller list, and though primarily for adults, is on the New York Public Library List of Outstanding Books for teens. The paperback edition came out in April 1997 and is in a tenth printing.
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