Cape Cod Poetry Group: Poetry & Music Series

Sponsored by Cape Cod Poetry Group and Friends of the Truro Library

Featured Poet:

Martha Rhodes is a poet, publisher, editor, and a member of the faculty of two creative writing graduate programs. She is the author of four collections of poetry: At the Gate (1995, Provincetown Arts), Perfect Disappearance (2000, winner of the Green Rose Prize, New Issues Press), Mother Quiet (2004, University of Nebraska) and The Beds (2012, Autumn House). She is the director of Four Way Books and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

Spotlight Readers:

Ellen Dudley is the author of two books of poetry Slow Burn (Provincetown Arts Press) and The Geographic Cure (Four Way Books). She is at work on a third book of poems and a memoir. Her work appears in many journals including Alaska Quarterly Review, Phoebe, The Massachusetts Review, Iowa Review and Agni. She is the founding editor/publisher of the Marlboro Review and divides her time between Marlboro Vermont and the village of Wai`ohinu on the Big Island of Hawai`i.

Rosalind Pace enjoyed a long career as a Poet-in-the-Schools and then writer-in-residence at a charter middle school. She continues to teach memoirs for senior citizens, annual poetry seminars at the Wellfleet Library, and Image-Making: Discover Your Voice & Vision – Create a Book, at the Provincetown Art Association & Museum (August 10-14). Her poems have appeared in upstreet, Nimrod, The Iowa Review, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and many other journals. She lives in Truro.

Musical Interlude:

Ellen Watters Sullivan has studied with Rudolph Kratina, and at the N.E. Conservatory, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Longy School of Music, Boston Conservatory, Atlanta Symphony, Boston Symphony, and Boston Chamber Music Society. She was principal cellist of the Melrose Symphony, played in the Otter Trio, performed and conducted with the New England Women’s Symphony, and played free form jazz at the Friends of Great Black Music in Boston.

Claudia Wellington has played in and around clubs in Somerville, Cambridge, and Boston, sang with guitarist Christopher Calloway Brooks, and performed at the Club Café with pianist David Sparr. She moved to France in 1986 and sang with the Kangeroo Swing Orchestra in clubs in Paris and the French Alps, and performed as a headliner at the Beauvais Jazz Festival. She’s teaming up with Ellen Watters Sullivan, and they’ll be playing some familiar favorites along with some new ones.

Host:

Barry Hellman is a clinical psychologist who organizes and hosts poetry and music events on Cape Cod, founded and administrates the Cape Cod Poetry Group on Facebook, and leads workshops on the art, craft, and performance of poetry. He is the author of The King of Newark, a chapbook published by Finishing Line Press, and his poems have also appeared in journals, anthologies, playbills, and broadsides.