The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
Due to unforeseen circumstances this event has been postponed. We will announce a new date soon. 10 Playwrights & 10 Ten-Minute Plays. Come and join us for the 1st performance of the plays and give your feedback to the playwrights! Reception after the performance. Rocky Neck Cultural Center. $10 Suggested donation - No one turned […]
A daybook, a memoir, and a serial poem, Ironstone Whirlygig is also something else. The book began as a blog written in stolen moments--in the hours between the local closing and the sun coming up, when children and husband are asleep and the world is quiet and still enough to allow the mind to remake […]
Situ is a hesitant unfolding of demise, a text that occupies the interstices between diegetic, philosophical, and poetic discursive timbres. From this tension—which finds form in an indeterminate subject’s relationship with a bench, his anguished site of rest and motion—the subsequent flux at the center of the narrative voice facilitates a kind of epistemology of […]
Timothy Donnelly is the author of two books of poetry, Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit, and The Cloud Corporation. Donnelly is an assistant professor and director of undergraduate creative writing at Columbia University. He is also the poetry editor for Boston Review. Donnelly is originally from Rhode Island but now lives in […]
WE HOPE TO PRESENT THIS EXCITING TRIO DURING THE SUMMER. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE. Jazz-up your Saturday night – literally! On the evening of the seventh of April, the Rocky Neck Cultural Center will be hosting a Jazz Poetry night to benefit the Gloucester Writers Center. Saxy Poetry, Jazzy Song – as the gathering […]
Nausheen Eusuf is a PhD candidate in English at Boston University and a graduate of the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins. Her poetry has appeared in The American Scholar, Southwest Review, Salmagundi, PN Review, Literary Imagination, World Literature Today, and other journals. Her first collection of poems, Not Elegy, But Eros, was recently published by NYQ Books (US) and Bengal Lights Books […]
Joan Houlihan will be reading poems from her newly-published book, Shadow-feast, from Four Way Books. Houlihan is the author of four other books of poetry: Hand-Held Executions: Poems & Essays (2003); The Mending Worm, (which received the 2006 Green Rose Award from New Issues Press); The Us (2009), which received a Must Read distinction from […]
