Wellfleet Public Library

The Art & Craft of Poetry

For the 21th consecutive year! Explore where poems come from (the art) and how they get made (the craft), as well as trying out your own poems-in-progress. This seminar is a welcoming place for beginners as well as practicing poets, and those who are simply curious about poetry and want to learn more.

Pace is a 30-year veteran of the Poets-in-the-School program, has taught literature and writing in a variety of places, given readings in colleges, libraries, art centers, and festivals including the Dodge Poetry Festival. Her poems have appeared in the Atlanta Review, American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, Three Rivers Poetry Review, and others. She mentors the Truro Memoirs Group.

Kathy Shorr's poetry has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, the Nebraska Review, and other publications. She won the Writers at Work Poetry Fellowship and has an MFA in Writing from Vermont College. She is the author of the book Provincetown: Stories from Land's End and wrote the text for Charles Fields photography book The Lower Cape. She is on the staff of the Center for Coastal Studies.