Poetry makes meaning through the sound and rhythm of language, metaphor, compression, tone, and how the words are broken into lines. Reading poetry together is an opportunity to share the lyricism as well as the content of poems.

Instructor JoEllen Moldoff will be presenting “Three Tuesdays of Poetry – for Poets, Poetry Lovers, and the Curious” Jan. 6, 13, and 20 from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Orcas Library. In this brief session, the class will read aloud and discuss the work of contemporary American and international poets, poems that will inspire and awaken the poet in you. Participants will consider the poem’s content and context, form, sound, tone, word choice, lyricism, meaning.

Some of the poets which might be included are William Stafford, Mary Oliver, Jane Hirshfield, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Pablo Neruda, Constantine Cavafy, W.H. Auden, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Billy Collins, Wistlawa Symborska, Naomi Shihab Nye, Galway Kinnell, Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, Elizabeth Bishop, and various Asian poets.

Register at the Orcas Library. There is a $7 fee for library and copying costs.