Westwood Writer’s Workshop offers April 13 Zoom training for creative folk

The Westwood Writer’s Workshop offers an inspiring creative afternoon with special guest author Susan Wooldridge from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 13 via Zoom at the Westwood Library, 500 Birch Street. Wooldridge’s book poemcrazy has helped many poets realize their creative potential.

Call librarian Laurel at (530) 370-3335 for more information.

If you can’t join us at the library, e-mail wildmtlaurel@gmail.com for a zoom link.

poemcrazy: Freeing your life with words
Anne Lamott, author of Bird by Bird, writes, “poemcrazy 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. Number 7 in a Penguin/Random House list of the 28 best books on writing, poemcrazy was a Writer’s Digest as well as a Quality Paperback book club selection, and though primarily a book for adults, was on the New York Library List of Outstanding Books for Teens.

“poemcrazy (Three Rivers, Random House) now in its 30th printing, is becoming increasingly well-known on campuses both to teachers and students of writing and creativity.

“College Board publishes three chapters in Springboard the help prepare students for the SAT.

“poemcrazy has been used as part of core curriculum in places ranging from the Denver and Rhode Island Public Schools to Brown and Evergreen Universities, the Virginia Writing Project and the Guggenheim Museum Curriculum online.

“poemcrazy is on numerous lists of ‘bestselling’ or ‘favorite’ books about poetry on the internet.

“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 wrote in Camera Arts magazine that he uses poemcrazy in his Photoshop Masterclass because ‘it says everything about the creative process.’”