Ask the Author: Susa Silvermarie
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Susa Silvermarie
Tales from My Teachers on the Alzheimer's Unit came out of my work as a gerontological social worker and a poetry therapist on the dementia unit of a Midwestern nursing home.
Susa Silvermarie
I am made of 70 trillion cells of energy. All I have to do to be inspired for any creative project is get all of them to say, simultaneously, YES! The more I make full use of my whole being in a project, the more inspired I become.
Susa Silvermarie
Sorting four decades of poetry into four manuscript collections, a project that requires searching, culling, editing, and organizing and well as the pure ongoing pleasure of revisioning.
Susa Silvermarie
Make it a routine rather than waiting for inspiration. Only choose it if you can't not choose it.
Susa Silvermarie
Answering only to myself, ie, Occupying self!
Susa Silvermarie
I freewrite in my journal til all the junk's run out of my brain, and when I read it back the next day I pan for a tiny gold nugget to start me on a new project.
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