calliope—poetry craft workshops
in collaboration with West Falmouth Library

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT AVAILABILITY

Please note that both remaining workshops are now full. You can get on the waiting list for them by e-mailing Alice Kociemba at  calliopepoetryreadings@verizon.net .

Saturday, January 28, 11am- 1pm

A Burble Through the Tulgey Wood
Or How to Use Meter and Sound in Poetry

Mary Oliver, Laurence Perrine, John Ciardi have plenty to say about the use of the qualities of poetic language.  This workshop is a painless overview of their collected wisdom.

Sheila Whitehouse

Sheila Whitehouse has published a collection of her poetry, Flint and Needle (Author House, 2006).  Her poems have appeared in South Carolina Review, Orphic Lute and other small magazines.  Sheila founded the Guyer Barn Poets, a poetry workshop in 1989, which still meets monthly.  She retired from a long career in teaching and continues studying and writing poetry, as well as painting.  Sheila holds an MFA in poetry from Vermont College and lives in Hyannis, MA.

Lower Level Conference room, West Falmouth Library. $20 each, or the series for $50. Pre-registration required via website.

calliopepoetryreadings@verizon.net. 
Calliope, PO Box 957 West Falmouth, MA  02574

Saturday, February 25, 11am-1pm

Writing Poems About Family, Friends, Lovers and Others

What is satisfying and successful about this sort of material, and how have different poets made choices in constructing and developing their poems? Aspects of both content and craft will be discussed in this workshop.  Sample poems will be used as a stimulus for going home and writing your own relationship poem. If you have a favorite, published poem, bring it to share.

Barry Hellman

Barry Hellman is the author of a new chapbook The King of Newark (Finishing Line Press).  His  poems have appeared in Writer’s Digest, the Aurorean, Ballard Street Poetry Journal, Poetica Magazine, Still Crazy Literary Magazine, and other journals and anthologies. He founded the Writers Group at the Eastham Library, hosts The Chapel in the Pines Poetry Series and co-hosts Poets’ Corner and publishes a website at http://home.comcast.net/~bmhellman

Lower Level Conference room, West Falmouth Library. $20 each, or the series for $50. Pre-registration required via website.

calliopepoetryreadings@verizon.net. 
Calliope, PO Box 957 West Falmouth, MA  02574

Saturday, March 24, 11am-1pm

The Pattern of the Dance: Using Form in Contemporary Poetry

This workshop will explore the possibilities of using two or three traditional forms in an effort to understand how each one lends itself to particular content, and how these forms may prove relevant to contemporary expression.  We will look closely at the work of poets who have mastered form with an ear for natural speech that does not sacrifice emotion and intelligence.

Christine Casson

Christine Casson is the author of After the First World (Star Cloud Press, 2008) and was named “Poet of the Month” at PoetryNet.org.  Her poems have appeared is Agenda, Stand, The Dalhousie Review, DoubleTake, Natural Bridge, Alabama Literary Review and in the anthologies Fashioned Pleasures, Never Before, and Conversation Pieces.  Christine is currently at work on a study of poetic sequence entitled Sequence and Time Signature:  A Study in Poetic Orchestration.  She is Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College.

Lower Level Conference room, West Falmouth Library. $20 each, or the series for $50. Pre-registration required via website.

calliopepoetryreadings@verizon.net. 
Calliope, PO Box 957 West Falmouth, MA  02574