This workshop is part of a series of workshops offered by local poet and teacher Carla Panciera. Each session will explore a different topic in poetry. Join us for as many as you like, and then come share your work and listen to others at a reception and reading on April 10th here at the library.

April 3rd: Out of This World

Sure flowers are pretty and love is tricky, but sometimes, the real world just isn’t enough. This week, we focus on metaphor, simile, personification, allusion, and hyperbole to craft poems that surprise our readers and ourselves with the imaginative connections we make between the known and the felt.

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Carla Panciera has published two collections of poetry: One of the Cimalores (Cider Press) and No Day, No Dusk, No Love (Bordighera). Her collection of short stories, Bewildered, received AWP’s 2013 Grace Paley Short Fiction Award and is available from the University of Massachusetts Press. Her work has appeared in several journals including The New England Review, Nimrod, The Chattahoochee Review, Painted Bride, and Carolina Quarterly. A high school English teacher, Carla lives in Rowley, MA, with her husband and three daughters.