Understanding Poetry, Understanding The Novel: Seminars With Poet Laureate Sylvia Baer
Mondays, June 22 & 29 from 10AM – 11:30AM
Community Room at Cape May Convention Hall
714 Beach Ave., Cape May
Cape May's Poet Laureate Sylvia Baer hosts two intensive, in-person seminars that delve into two distinct literary forms this June in Cape May Convention Hall's air-conditioned Community Room, 714 Beach Ave. These seminars are devoted to understanding poetry by reading, exploring, and responding, and understanding the novel by exploring theme, symbols, character and setting. They are for anyone interested in literature at any level of knowledge and experience. Dr. Sylvia Baer has been a professor of literature for 51 years and is also the Poet Laureate of Cape May, a playwright, a memoirist, a writer of scholarly works, a translator of Spanish poetry (into English), and a Fellow at Yale University. She has deep connections to Cape May MAC, spanning five decades, and can proudly say that her father was the first president of Cape May MAC in 1971.
Fourth Annual Writing Workshops With Poet Laureate Sylvia Baer: Poetry, Fiction, Memoir & Children’s Literature
Mondays, July 7, 14, 21, & 28 from 10AM – 12PM
Community Room at Cape May Convention Hall
714 Beach Ave., Cape May
Cape May's Poet Laureate Sylvia Baer hosts two intensive, in-person seminars that delve into two distinct literary forms this June in Cape May Convention Hall's air-conditioned Community Room, 714 Beach Ave. These seminars are devoted to understanding poetry by reading, exploring, and responding, and understanding the novel by exploring theme, symbols, character and setting. They are for anyone interested in literature at any level of knowledge and experience. Dr. Sylvia Baer has been a professor of literature for 51 years and is also the Poet Laureate of Cape May, a playwright, a memoirist, a writer of scholarly works, a translator of Spanish poetry (into English), and a Fellow at Yale University. She has deep connections to Cape May MAC, spanning five decades, and can proudly say that her father was the first president of Cape May MAC in 1971.
About the Presenter:
Dr. Sylvia Baer has been a professor of literature for 51 years and is also the Poet Laureate of Cape May, a playwright, a memoirist, a writer of scholarly works, a translator of Spanish poetry (into English), and a Fellow at Yale University. She has curated haiku and photography exhibitions at Rowan University and Yale University, been founding editor of international academic journals, and presented at conferences and workshops throughout the country. In Cape May she is the creator of The Poet-Tree where she hangs about 60 poems written by a whole panoply of writers, and with signage encourages passers-by to pick any poem that appeals to them and to take it with them. So many folks enjoy this that each day the tree is replenished once or twice. Her latest book, “Building Life, A Memoir,” published in June 2024, is the second volume in an unconventional memoir that began with “Learning Life, a Memoir, published in August 2022. Both are published by Nostos Press. She has deep connections to Cape May MAC, spanning five decades, and can proudly say that her father was the first president of Cape May MAC in 1971.