The Poets Studio holds its monthly meeting on Thursday, Nov. 7, from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Long Beach Island branch of the Ocean County Library in Surf City. The first half hour is devoted to discussing some aspect of the art of writing poetry. The presenter is Jackie Shelly, who will be speaking about the “palimpsest” in poetry. A palimpsest is a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing, but of which traces remain.

Susan Cummings, group moderator, used Sigmund Freud’s writing as an example.