Episode 54 bonus: more wisdom from Jack Ridl

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Episode 54 bonus: more wisdom from Jack Ridl

Christie Aschwanden

Nov 18, 2021

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In this bonus episode, we speak with poet and teacher Jack Ridl about how he fills his days (with titles!), what he learned from his mentor Paul Zimmer (and just how long that took), how he found permission to put angels into his poems and why his colleagues have sometimes been obstacles to creative practice.

Jack Ridl, Poet Laureate of Douglas, Michiga…

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Emerging Form is a podcast about the creative process in which a journalist (Christie Aschwanden) and a poet (Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer) discuss creative conundrums over wine. Each episode concludes with a game of two questions in which a guest joins in to help answer questions about the week's topic. Season one guests include poets, novelists, journalists, a song writer, a circus performer, a sketch artist and a winemaker.

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