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.

March 12th: Introduction to Poetry -- The Witnessed Experience and Beyond

In this class, we will be observers and recorders, using what we already know or can observe from the world around us, to begin poems. We will also go beyond being mere “secretaries of our morning” as Billy Collins describes himself, to discover how to use poetic shifts to take our poems to the next level.

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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.