Online Events for Poetry Month

This April, poet and fiction writer Michael West will lead a Poetry Writing Workshop in four weekly hour-long sessions on Saturdays at 2 pm, April 3rd - April 24th. Join the group online and bring what you’ve written, and get a respectful listen and constructive feedback with an aim to facilitate your growth as a poet. All forms are welcome - sonnets, song lyrics, hip hop, heartbreak confessions, vers libre, spoken word, villanelles, you get the idea!

Michael is a graduate of Williams College where he founded and edited the poetry magazine, rag. He received an MA in Creative Writing, Poetry, from Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars. He has also taught writing and conducted creative writing classes at John Hopkins, American University, Northeastern University and Featherstone Center for the Arts. To register for this series on Zoom, visit:  https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMuceihqTsuGtwhwOXZibOqb-gvmaiJs1CC

Also in April, the Martha's Vineyard Poetry Reading Group will meet on Zoom at 10:30 am Tuesday April 6th. This is an interactive group that meets monthly. The meeting leader selects a poem(s), from the earliest Greeks to contemporary, to be read and discussed as a community, which always adds new dimensions to understanding. The MV Poetry Reading Group has been meeting for over 10 years and wants to stress how much more we get out of the poems when shared and discussed.

The Martha's Vineyard Haiku Club meets monthly, led by Caroline Joy Adams, author of five published books, including The Power to Write: Seven Keys to Discover Your Writer Within. Her newest title, Have Fun with Haiku, was published in December. The theme for this month's session: "New Possibilities ," and the online meeting will be at 6 pm on Tuesday April 27th.

Contact Library Program Coordinator Anne McDonough at amcdonough@clamsnet.org for Zoom access information.