Understanding Poetry, Understand the Novel, with Cape May Poet Laureate Sylvia Baer

Cape May’s Poet Laureate Sylvia Baer hosts two intensive, in-person seminars that delve into two distinct literary forms in Cape May Convention Hall’s air-conditioned Community Room. These two seminars are devoted to understanding poetry by reading, exploring, and responding, and understanding the novel by exploring theme, symbols, character and setting. They are for anyone interested in literature at any level of knowledge and experience. Dr. Sylvia Baer has been a professor of literature for 51 years and is also the Poet Laureate of Cape May, a playwright, a memoirist, a writer of scholarly works, a translator of Spanish poetry (into English), and a Fellow at Yale University. She has deep connections to Cape May MAC, spanning five decades, and can proudly say that her father was the first president of Cape May MAC in 1971.