Mondays, July 7th, 14th, 21st, & 28th from 10AM – 12PM
Community Room at Cape May Convention Hall
714 Beach Ave., Cape May
Cape May’s Poet Laureate Sylvia Baer hosts four 2-hour writing workshops in person this July in Cape May Convention Hall’s air-conditioned Community Room, 714 Beach Ave. Each workshop will be devoted to exploring a writing style: poetry, fiction, memoir and children’s literature. These four workshops are for anyone interested in writing at any level of knowledge and experience. Participants will learn about the essentials of each style, with time for creative writing during each workshop. Sharing work is a personal choice and will not be required. After each session there will be time for discussion.
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.