Hello, I’m Susan Wooldridge, a writer and workshop leader for over forty years. I love to help people write playfully to express heart and soul. My book poemcrazy where to buy Pregabalin 150mg : freeing your life with words has been through 33 printings (and counting.) Let me help you find your words.
“We can live quiet, apparently sedate lives if we express our wildness by risking and leaping in our writing…This can save our lives.”
~ Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge
books
Susan’s books are a gateway to imagination, an invitation to listen and express the wild, unexpected aspects of self…
workshops
Susan brings tools and techniques to workshops designed to help you feel excited about writing (and teaching) poetry…
coaching
Susan would love to meet you one-on-one on Zoom or in person to help you begin to play with language, explore your creativity, overcome blocks and…
“Image is the root of imagination.”
Susan Wooldridge’s book poemcrazy: freeing your life with words was published in 1996 by Clarkson Potter/Random House, and is now in its 32nd printing, with 27 paperback reprintings from Three Rivers/Crown.
Anne Lamott wrote, “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.”
Risk
Play
Heart
Joy
“Poems arrive. They hide in feelings and images, in weeds and delivery vans, daring us to notice and give them form with our words."
To work with me one-on-one or schedule a group workshop in person or on zoom…
testimonials
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Amy Tullius Poetry and the Piano Workshop
"Susan doesn’t teach poetry so much as unlock it. Her teaching itself is poetry."
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Kathlyn Hendricks Author of Conscious Loving and The Conscious Heart
"Exhilarating, playful and profound. Opens a tremendous creative frontier for people."
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Patrick Gleason California Reading & Lit Project Workshop
"What she drew out of us in a brief period was astounding."
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Laura Chico, CA
"Sitting and writing poems with Susan is like taking a lid off a jar."
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William SED 5th grader, Chico, CA
"I didn’t want to say goodbye to that day."
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2018 Workshop Participant Red Bluff Library Workshop, #RuralLibrariesTour
I am over the moon. to me it was a spiritual/religious experience. I was amazed at the depth of sharing and quality of the material.
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