The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
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Joey Gould and Amanda Cook
November 20, 2019 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Joey Gould is a non-binary poet from Hopedale who tutors & often works with Mass Poetry for content writing, event planning, hosting, & performing. Their writing has appeared in Drunk Monkeys, District Lit, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, & Memoir Mixtapes. Joey performs in the Boston cast of The Poetry Brothel as Izzie Hexxam & their first full-length collection, The Acute Avian Heart (2019, Lily Poetry Review) is now available.
The first two sections of Joey Gould’s book, The Acute Avian Heart (Lily Poetry Review, 2019), were written at Morning Garden Artist Retreat, hosted in Gloucester. Joey will be reading from the book, focusing on describing where & how Gloucester appears in its pages.
Amanda Cook lives in Gloucester with her husband, James, and children Abigail and Samuel. She sees writing as an integral part of life. She knits, spins yarn, plays fiddle, feeds people and dances when she pleases. She teaches and works at the Gloucester Writers Center. Her book, Ironstone Whirlygig, was published by Bootstrap Press in 2018. She is currently working on Letter to Maximus, a poem-by-poem reaction to Olson’s Maximus poems.
Amanda Cook will be reading from Ironstone Whirlygig.