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Susan Polis Schutz
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Susan Polis Schutz is an American poet and producer of greeting cards. She was born in Peekskill, NY, in 1944. She is the mother of Jared Polis.
A longtime activist for women's rights and antiwar causes, she initially worked as a freelance writer. In 1971, she turned her hobby of writing poetry into a commercial venture by founding (with husband Stephen Schutz) the greeting card and poster company Blue Mountain Arts.
Schutz's poetry focuses heavily on themes of love, family, motherhood, trust, and gratitude. Her poems' simple language and unrhymed free verse give them an approachable and sincere quality. However, their predictable idiom, consisting mainly of straightforward declarations of strong emotions, has led some readers to deride them as being kitschy and cloying.
In addition to her poems published as greeting cards, Schutz is the author of several poetry anthologies, including "To My Daughter With Love on the Important Things in Life" (1986).
Schutz is the executive producer and director of the documentary film Anyone and Everyone. The film features the coming out stories of gay sons and daughters and their parents and premiered on KPBS public television in San Diego California in August 2007 before being scheduled to air on a number of other public television stations in the United States.
Schutz and Blue Mountain Arts came to wider attention with the founding, in 1996, of the bluemountain.com web site. One of the earliest experiments with the electronic greeting card medium, the site was widely adopted by world wide web users. In 1999, the dot-com venture Excite@Home bought bluemountain.com in a deal valued at $780 million.The wild overvaluation of bluemountain.com became a notorious example of what were later seen as the excesses of the dot-com boom, and these excesses were underlined when bluemountain.com was sold again in 2001, this time to the firm American Greetings, for only $35 million in cash


https://www.anyoneandeveryone.com/about.html
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ - PRODUCED BY AGNES CHU - EDITED BY BRET GRANATO - SOUND EDITING BY MATTHEW POLIS - DIRECTED BY SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ - 2007 / 57 MINUTES

"Anyone and Everyone is a moving and beautiful portrayal of the love between parents and children, and the work some parents are willing to do for the sake of that love."
--Bent Lens Cinema

"... a moving documentary of American families' most heart-wrenching and heartwarming moments."
--Keith York, KPBS Director of TV Programming

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Connected by having a son or daughter who is gay, parents across the country discuss their experiences in the documentary Anyone and Everyone. In it, filmmaker Susan Polis Schutz, depicts families from all walks of life. Individuals from such diverse backgrounds as Japanese, Bolivian, and Cherokee, as well as from various religious denominations such as Mormon, Jewish, Roman Catholic, Hindu, and Southern Baptist, share intimate accounts of how their children revealed their sexual orientation and discuss their responses.
One World, One Heart
In response to the tragic events of September 11, 2001, writer Susan Polis Schutz and illustrator Stephen Schutz created this comforting and inspiring poetry collection.

Everyone has the same basic needs and emotions. This book encourages people everywhere to put aside their differences and come together as one in peace, understanding, and tolerance.
Since its first printing in October 2001, Blue Mountain Arts has distributed for free over 6.5 million copies of One World, One Heart. Unfortunately, the printed edition is no longer available, but a FREE online edition has been created with the hope that it will continue to reach out and touch the lives and hearts of people everywhere.

Download One World, One Heart

Please note that this is a large file (2.5megs) and may take 10 minutes to download on a dialup connection. While you are waiting for it to download, you may see a blank screen.
You may also want to read the special foreword to this edition, which tells about the creation of One World, One Heart and includes comments from readers.

We have a limited number of hard copy editions of One World, One Heart available for delivery in our home state of Colorado. Check to see if these books are available in your area.
We hope people throughout the world
will listen to the author's message.
www.sps.com/oneworld/

To my parents, I love you
I have gone through
so many different stages
changing ideas and goals
while searching for the
right kind of life for me
You were always
ready to help me
at all times
It must have seemed like
I would never
follow one straight path
Now that I know
what I am doing and
where I am going
I can only show you
my extreme appreciation
for your support
by being true
to all the ideals and values
that you tried to teach me
Thank you forever
for standing by me
I love and appreciate
you forever.
~ Poem by Susan Polis Schutz