Mondays, March 2nd, 9th, 16th & 23rd from 6:00PM – 7:30PM
Offered via Zoom
Cape May’s Poet Laureate Sylvia Baer hosts four 1.5-hour interactive online seminars via Zoom this February that will delve into literature that explores what it means to be human. The class will explore “Gilgamesh,” Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” and “Othello,” Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass,” and Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea.” For the second year, these online seminars are designed for those at any level of knowledge and experience who wish to learn more about literature. Tickets are $15.
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.