Cape Cod Poetry Group Afternoon of Poetry & Music

Sat, Jun 4th, 2016

2:30 pm

Hosted by Barry Hellman

Featured Poet:
Liz Rosenberg

Spotlight Poet:
Marjorie Block

Featured Musicians:
The Trio Ellen Sullivan, Jean Sagara, & John Best

*Plus*
Limited open mic for poets and musicians
Advance signup available May 27-June 1, 2016:
email bmhellman@comcast.net
with ‘Signup/Poem’ or ‘Signup/Song’ in Subject line.
Or at the door, as available. Come early!
 

Liz Rosenberg, poet and author, has published 5 books of poems with a 6th forthcoming from the Provincetown Arts Press. Her 4 adult novels have all been Amazon best-sellers, including the number one selling book on Kindle in America, and her works have been reprinted in Japan, Australia, Germany, Africa, and England. She has also published more than 20 highly prized books for young readers and for more than 25 years served as a book columnist for the Boston Globe. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, and many other journals and anthologies. Rosenberg graduated from Bennington College, earned her Masters in creative writing at the Johns Hopkins University Writing Program, and her PhD in Comparative literature at Binghamton University. She has taught at Colgate University, Sarah Lawrence College, Hamilton College, Bennington College, and Hollins University, and has guest taught all over the world, from Russia to Austria to Singapore— and at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.  She teaches at the State U of NY at Binghamton, and recently bought a second home in North Chatham, MA. Liz will be reading from her wide-ranging body of work— there’ll be poems about love, loss, family, landscapes, Ireland, and more.

Marjorie Block retired from teaching English and gave herself the gift of writing full time. Although she also writes short stories her first love is poetry. Her work has appeared in literary journals, anthologies, and broadsides, and she attempts in her writing to illuminate the ordinary or what we tend not to see. In 2013 she published her first book of poems, “Where One Thing Becomes Another.” She has been a featured poet in the Calliope Poetry Series, and a First Prize Winner in a PrimeTime Cape Cod poetry competition. Marjorie is active in the Cape’s community of poets and writers. She is a member of the Narrow Land Poets, and for the last five years a participant in Keith Althaus’ Castle Hill Workshop in Truro. After living and working in many regions of the country including NYC and Chicago, she now happily resides in Dennis on Cape Cod.

Ellen Watters Sullivan has played in orchestras, chamber groups, and as a soloist throughout the U.S. and internationally. She studied with Rudolph Kratina, an Austrian cellist who had studied with Strauss. Later she studied at the N.E. Conservatory, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Longy School of Music and the Boston Conservatory. She has also studied with members of the Atlanta Symphony, the Boston Symphony and Boston Chamber Music Society. Ellen 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.

Jean Sagara started playing string instruments in elementary school, and studied cello into adulthood. A washashore to Cape Cod in 2001, she taught herself the fiddle and has been part of multiple groups playing old time, Irish, bluegrass, folk, Mexican, classical, as well as other styles of music. Adding other instruments along the way, she has been an active part of The Higher Ground String Band, The Cry Babes, Tres Por Cinco and Black Whydah. Jean and her music partner, John Best, have just completed their 4th CD as a duo, Washashore Winter. Jean was also a main organizer for Wellfleet's 2015 Porchfest.

John Best is a retired music teacher of 32 years in the NJ public schools. He is a life-long musician and a nationally known glass artist of the last 40 years. With his wife, Elizabeth, they run Best Studios. John also has his independent recording label, Cat's Tale recordings. Working with his partner, Jean Sagara, as Black Whydah, they have released their 4th. album in 5 years, "Washashore Winter", offering sound pictures of Cape Cod and Wellfleet in winter. If that isn't enough, John is a working author, hoping to finish his third novel, "WhydahMaker" by spring.

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 is the founder of the Cape Cod Poetry Group, curates and hosts its Poetry & Music Series, leads workshops on the art, craft, and performance of poetry, publishes a CCPG page on Facebook and a CCPG page on CapeWomenOnline, and is an advisor to WCAI’s ‘Poetry Sunday’. Previously he co-curated and co-hosted the Poets Corner Poetry & Music Open Mic at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod, hosted poetry, music, and poetry workshop events at the Chapel In The Pines in Eastham, and founded and led a Writers Group at the Wellfleet Library.

In the Meeting Room

Hosted by: Wellfleet Public Library

http://www.wellfleetlibrary.org

For more information call: 508-349-0310

or email: wpl@wellfleet-ma.gov