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Join us at the Barn for an evening toast with our friends and neighbors at the Center for Coastal Studies. How can the arts change the narrative around climate change and coastal sustainability? How can conservation and arts-oriented organizations work together to imagine a more sustainable future for Cape Cod and beyond? An evening of informal conversations, poetry and collaboration.

Kathy Shorr | Len Germinara | Elizabeth Bradfield | Amy Jenness | Dr. Sarah Oktay

Kathy Shorr is Development Officer at the Center for Coastal Studies. She is the author of the book Provincetown: Stories from Land's End, and wrote the text for the book Provincetown Truro Wellfleet, with photographs by Charles Fields. She is the recipient of a Writers at Work Fellowship in poetry. and her poetry has appeared in many publications including Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, One (Jacar Press) The Nebraska Review, Passenger, the Cape Cod Times, and on Cape & Islands NPR. She received an MFA in writing from Vermont College. 

Len Germinara is the co-founder of Spoken Word Nantucket and a Cambridge Poetry Award winner. Author of two collections of poetry, his books are available on Amazon, his most recent title is Back Story. Len is on the board (Emeritus) of the Sacramento Poetry Center and is the current host of the Poets Corner on WOMR in Provincetown.

Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Toward Antarctica and Theorem, a collaboration with artist Antonia Contro. She is also editor of Broadsided Press: Fifteen Years of Poetic / Artistic Collaboration, 2005-2020, just out from Provincetown Arts Press. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Poetry and many anthologies, and her honors include the Audre Lorde Prize and a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University.  Founder of Broadsided Press, Liz works as a naturalist and teaches creative writing at Brandeis University. 

Amy Jenness is a journalist and nonfiction writer and joined the Center in January as director of Marketing & Communications. She is the author of On This Day In Nantucket History (The History Press, 2014) and has poems in several chap.

Sarah Oktay, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Center for Coastal Studies, is a chemical oceanographer specializing in climate change research. She is the co-founder of Spoken Word Nantucket, a poetry venue that operated for 12 years on the island of Nantucket, and author of the poetry collection Sifting Light from the Darkness. The majority of her career has been based at field stations and marine labs where land and sea is preserved for science, education, and outreach.