As Coastal Senior College (CSC) continues to extend its role in the active lifelong learning community in Lincoln and Knox counties and beyond, the College kicks off the fall 2025 semester on Sept. 16 with a varied collection of four- to eight-session courses, both in person in a variety of settings and on Zoom.

Registration for all courses opened on Aug. 12 and reservations have been higher than expected already.  

Poet, photographer, watercolorist, and longtime CSC instructor Carol Willette Bachofner has designed a special course for curious wordsmiths titled “Let’s Repeat Ourselves: Poems with Lines We Love.” 

Bachofner promises the course will be “a generative poetry experience focusing on three forms that employ repeating lines: villanelle, pantoum, and triolet. All three forms use repeating lines in different ways.” 

In six, two-hour Zoom sessions on Tuesday afternoons beginning Sept. 16, she will guide students through understanding and then practicing this special poetic form.  Informative printed materials will augment the course. 

Bachofner’s poetry has appeared in numerous journals, such as Cafe Review, Prairie Schooner, The Connecticut Review, The Comstock Review, Cream City Review, as well as in the following anthologies, Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Writings from Indigenous New England (University of Nebraska Press, 2013); Enough! (Littoral Books 2020); and Wait (Littoral Books 2021).   

Information about CSC and registration for the fall courses may be found at coastalseniorcollege.org.