How to Make Prolific Art: Becoming the Bridge, Communing with the Muse, and Tuning into Earth’s Rhythms with Poet Jacqueline Suskin

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Do you want to make more art or dissolve your writer’s block? How do prolific artists find the time, energy, and passion to compose art? Have you wondered how to weave your creative practice and the natural world together?

In this Moonbeaming episode, host Sarah Faith Gottesdiener and Jacqueline Suskin, a poet who’s written over 40 thousand poems uncover Jacqueline’s creative process for on-demand poetry writing by way of improvisation, muses, and channeling energy.

In this episode you’ll learn:

• How to become the bridge to channel messages from the macro to the micro
• Life as practice through patience and observation
• How to tune into Earth’s rhythms and the impact of seasonal cycles of creative work
• Examples of how to create a simple ritual when receiving creative, intuitive gifts

If you want to renew inspiration and revive curiosity, translate energy transmission into creative projects and collaborate with Earth’s cycles, this episode is for you.

About Guest: Jacqueline Suskin is a poet and educator who has composed over forty thousand improvisational poems with her ongoing writing project, Poem Store. Suskin is the author of 8 books, including The Edge of The Continent Volumes 1-3, Help in the Dark Season, Every Day is a Poem, and A Year in Practice, with work featured in various publications including the New York Times, the Atlantic, and the Los Angeles Times. An ecstatic earth-worshiper, she lives in Detroit where she works as a teaching artist with InsideOut Literary Arts, bringing nature poetry into classrooms with her Poem Forest curriculum.

Jacqueline’s Links:

• Book: A Year in Practice
• Website
• Instagram

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