Summer Afternoon of Poetry & Music

The Performers:

Martha Rhodes is the author of five collections of poetry: At the Gate (1995), Perfect Disappearance (2000, Green Rose Prize), Mother Quiet (2004), The Beds (2012) and The Thin Wall (2017).Her poems have been published widely in such journals as Agni, Columbia, Fence, New England Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. She has also been anthologized widely, her work appearing in Agni 30 Years, Askold Melnyczuk editor, Appetite: Food as Metaphor, Phyllis Stowell and Jeanne Foster, eds. BOA Editions, Ltd. Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women, Susan Aizenberg and Erin Belieu, eds., Columbia University Press, 2001, New York. The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology, Michael Collier, ed,. University Press of New England, 2000, Hanover, NH. Last Call: Poems on Alcoholism, Addiction, and Deliverance, Sarah Gorham and Jeffrey Skinner, eds., Sarabande Books, 1997, Louisville. The KGB Bar Book of Poetry, David Lehman and Star Black, eds. Harper Collins, 2000, New York, among others.

She has taught at Emerson College, New School University, and University of California at Irvine. She currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She has been a visiting or guest poet at many colleges and universities around the country and has taught at conferences such as the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, The Frost Place, Indiana University, Sarah Lawrence Summer Conference, and Third Coast. She serves on many publishing panels throughout each year at colleges, conferences and arts organizations, and is a regular guest editor at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the Colrain Manuscript Conference. She also teaches private weekly workshops. In 2010, she took over the directorship of the Frost Place Conference on Poetry in Franconia, NH. Rhodes is the director of Four Way Books, publishers of poetry and short fiction, located in New York City

Susan Berlin earned her MFA in Creative Writing & Poetry, Sarah Lawrence College. Her poems have appeared in Alaska Quarterly, Asheville Poetry Review, Atlanta Review, Cape Cod Poetry Review, Georgetown Review, Harvard Review, Iodine Poetry Review, Mudfish, Naugatuck River Review, Oberon and Ploughshares, among many others.  A multiple Pushcart Prize nominee and twice a Finalist for the National Poetry Series, she was awarded 1st Prize in the Galway Kinnell Poetry Contest from the Rhode Island Council on the Arts and has received an International Publication Prize as well as an International Merit Award from Atlanta Review.  Her book, The Same Amount of Ink, was published in 2017 by Glass Lyre Press. She lives in Yarmouth Port, MA.

Wilderness Sarchild is an expressive arts therapist, poet, playwright, and grandmother of six.  She is the author of two plays: Slave Day and Wrinkles, the Musical (co-written with naomi Turner). Her poems have been published in many anthologies/journals and she has won awards for her poetry and play writing from Veterans for Peace, Women\’s International League for Peace and Freedom,  Chicago\’s Side Project Theatre Company, and in 2015, was the first place regional winner of the Joe Gouveia WOMR National Poetry Competition. Her first full length poetry manuscript, Old Women Talking, will be published by Passager Books in the fall.

Fred Boyle is a gifted pianist and accompanist who has performed with artists as diverse as the Platters, Bobby Rydell, Boots Randolph, Chet Atkins, Denny Dias ( Steely Dan) and Joan Rivers to New England favorites Dick Johnson, Shawnn Monteiro, Suede, Cape Cod Jazz Quintet and the Cape Symphony. Fred has traveled extensively as music director for Norwegian Cruise Line and featured pianist for Seabourn Cruise Line. He has performed at music festivals and jazz venues throughout New England including the Provincetown Jazz Festival, Wequassett Jazz Festival, Regatta Bar and Scullers Jazz club. Fred resides on Cape Cod with his wife Leslie and black lab Jaymee.

 Barry Hellman is a clinical psychologist whose poems have appeared in literary journals, anthologies, broadsides, playbills, and The King of Newark published by Finishing Line Press. He\’s the founder of the Cape Cod Poetry Group, curates and hosts its Poetry & Music Series and group page on Facebook, and leads workshops on the art, craft, and performance of poetry. Barry is the Outer Cape Outreach Representative for MassPoetry in Boston, publishes a Cape Cod Poetry Group page on CapeWomenOnline, and an advisor to WCAI\’s Poetry Sunday. Previously, he co-curated and hosted the Poets Corner Poetry & Music Series at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod, hosted poetry, music, and poetry workshop events in the Chapel In The Pines Sunday Series, and founded and led a Writers Group at the Eastham Library.