Pembroke poet Elaine Sorrentino is celebrating the release of her first collection of poems “Belly Dancing in a Brown Sweatsuit,” at Poetry the Art of Words on Sunday, June 8th at Plymouth Center for the Arts. Current communications director at South Shore Conservatory and a former news reporter, Elaine has made a career of writing people’s stories. Through her poetry and compiling this collection,she’s sharing her own compelling story, bit by bit, and poem by poem. In her poem titled “Planting Season” she writes: “I scatter my literary seeds on fertile ground in hopes they’ll take root.” Poetry the Art of Words starts at 1:30pm and is free to attend.