BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Gloucester Writers Center - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Gloucester Writers Center X-ORIGINAL-URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Gloucester Writers Center REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Halifax BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20160313T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20161106T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20170312T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20171105T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20180311T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20181104T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20190310T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20191103T050000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180427T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180427T220000 DTSTAMP:20260425T214432 CREATED:20180325T012832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180425T135730Z UID:8173-1524855600-1524866400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:10-Minute Plays Staged Reading DESCRIPTION:Share this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/10-minute-plays-staged-reading-5/ LOCATION:Cultural Center at Rocky Neck\, 6 Wonson Street\, Gloucester\, United States CATEGORIES:big event,Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/10minuteplaystagereaingdatechange.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180425T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180425T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T214432 CREATED:20171107T151732Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180423T193223Z UID:7986-1524684600-1524690000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Joan Houlihan and Fred Marchant DESCRIPTION:Joan Houlihan will be reading poems from her newly-published book\, Shadow-feast\, from Four Way Books. \nHoulihan 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 the Massachusetts Center for the Book; and Ay (2014)\, a sequel to The Us\, both from Tupelo Press. \nShe currently serves on the faculty of Lesley University’s Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program in Cambridge\, Massachusetts and is Professor of Practice at Clark University in Worcester\, Massachusetts. Houlihan also founded and directs the Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference.\nhttp://www.colrainpoetry.com/ \nFred Marchant is the author of five books of poetry\, the most recent of which is Said Not Said (2017). Earlier books include The Looking House\, Full Moon Boat\, and House on Water\, House in Air. \nHis first book\, Tipping Point\, won the 1993 Washington Prize\, and was reissued in a 20th anniversary second edition. Marchant has translated works by Vietnamese poets Tran Dang Khoa and Vo Que.\nHe has also edited Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford. \nAn emeritus professor of English\, Marchant is also the founding director of the Suffolk University Poetry Center in Boston. \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/joan-houlihan-fred-marchant/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/marchanthoulihan-e1523820078423.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180411T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180411T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T214432 CREATED:20180120T210543Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180127T224007Z UID:8074-1523475000-1523480400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Nausheen Eusuf and Matt Miller DESCRIPTION: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 (Bangladesh). \nMatt W. Miller is the author of The Wounded for the Water (Salmon Poetry\, 2018)\, Club Icarus\, selected by Major Jackson as the 2012 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize winner\, and Cameo Diner: Poems. He has published poems and essays in Slate\, Harvard Review\, Narrative Magazine\, Notre Dame Review\, Southwest Review\, crazyhorse\, Third Coast\, The Rumpus\, and Poetry Daily\, among other journals. He was winner of the 2015 River Styx Micro-fiction Prize and Iron Horse Review’s 2015 Trifecta Poetry Prize. He has been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry from Stanford University and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Poetry from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Miller teaches English at Phillips Exeter Academy. He lives in New Hampshire with his wife Emily and their children\, Delaney and Joseph. \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/nausheen-eusef-matt-miller/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/nausheenmiller.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180407T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180407T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T214432 CREATED:20180121T012111Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180330T230827Z UID:8076-1523129400-1523134800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:POSTPONED- Saxy Poetry\, Jazzy Song DESCRIPTION:WE HOPE TO PRESENT THIS EXCITING TRIO DURING THE SUMMER.\nTHANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE.  \nJazz-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 has been dubbed – will feature vocal artistry from New Bedford Native Candida Rose\, literary works from the first Poet Laureate of New Bedford Everett Hoagland\, and tunes played by Marion-based saxophonist Marcus Monteiro. \nCandida Rose is a vocalist\, entertainer\, songwriter\, educator\, mother\, and grandmother\, who captivates and amazes audiences with her diverse performances. In 2005\, she received her Bachelor or Arts – Music Degree\, from UMASS\, Dartmouth where she graduated “Summa Cum Laude”. In 2006\, Rose released her ten-song debut album entitled “KabuMerikana: The Sum of Me”\, which combines her Cape Verdean musical roots with her (primarily jazz) American influences. Rose went on to get her Masters in Science – Transnational\, Cultural\, and Community Studies in 2017\, and is a frequent poetic collaborator\, presenting at events such as the Massachusetts Poetry Festival along with Everett Hoagland and others. \nEverett Hoagland is an internationally known poet\, an Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts\, Dartmouth\, and was the first Poet Laureate of New Bedford\, Massachusetts (1994-1998). His work has been published in numerous publications\, periodicals and anthologies\, and his recent books include: …HERE… New & Selected Poems\, Oceans Voices\, The Music and Other Selected Poems. Hoagland has been awarded many poetry fellowships and prizes\, including the 2015 Langston Hughes Society Award. He has read his work to audiences all over the USA\, Ghana\, China\, and Cuba. \nMarcus Monteiro is a saxophone player and educator who is currently playing as a full-time musician. Having always been eager to take on new challenges\, Monteiro lends his saxophone skills to East Coast Soul\, Big Nazo\, Tavares\, Neal McCarthy\, and a myriad of other local and regional acts. His hard work has led him to sharing the stage with the likes of Esperanza Spalding\, George Clinton\, and The Rebirth Brass Band. \nRefreshments will be provided for attendees of Saxy Poetry\, Jazzy Song\, and the featured artists will be selling and signing their own books and CDs after the show. \nAll donations made at this event will help the Gloucester Writers Center keep the lights on and the programs running. Donations are much appreciated\, but – as per Gloucester Writers Center policy – no one is turned away due to lack of funds. \nAt the Gloucester Writers Center\, Our mission is to celebrate\, preserve and promote the future of Gloucester’s rich literary legacy\, and to ensure that diverse voices can explore\, develop\, and be heard through dialogue\, the literary arts\, and the artistic process. \nFor more information on the Gloucester Writers Center and our upcoming events\, check us out on Facebook\, YouTube\, @writers_center on Twitter\, @gloucesterwriterscenter on Instagram and Tumblr\, or head to our website: www.GloucesterWriters.org. \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/saxy-poetry-jazzy-song/ LOCATION:Cultural Center at Rocky Neck\, 6 Wonson Street\, Gloucester\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/saxypoetry.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180404T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180404T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T214432 CREATED:20180320T150814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180403T154543Z UID:8165-1522870200-1522875600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Timothy Donnelly and David Gullette DESCRIPTION: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 Brooklyn\, New York with his wife and two daughters. He is a writer in residence at the TS Eliot House.\n\nHe will be reading new poems from a manuscript in progress.\n\nDavid Gullette was one of the first editors of Ploughshares and is Literary Director of The Poets’ Theatre\, which presented his adaptation of Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf in December 2015 and his The Boston Abolitionists in March 2017 at the Boston Athenaeum. He has also acted with the ART\, Christmas Revels\, Actors Shakespeare Project\, and NPR’s The Spider’s Web. His book of poems\, Questionable Shapes\, was published by Cervena Barva Press (Somerville\, MA.) in 2017.\n  \nHe will be reading from the new book\, as well as some more recent work\, both published and unpublished. \n  \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/tim-donnolly-and-david-gullette/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/gullettedonnelly.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180402T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180402T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T214432 CREATED:20180121T030800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180121T030800Z UID:8084-1522697400-1522702800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Open Mic DESCRIPTION:Share this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/open-mic-29/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/openmicgeneral.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180323T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180323T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T214432 CREATED:20180307T123641Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180307T123744Z UID:8138-1521833400-1521838800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Fish Tales: High School DESCRIPTION:Share this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/fish-tales-high-school/ LOCATION:Gloucester Stage Company\, 267 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, MA\, 01930\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/FishTales-HS.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180321T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180321T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T214432 CREATED:20180120T204326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180318T022018Z UID:8072-1521660600-1521666000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Steven Seidenberg and David Abel DESCRIPTION: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 volition that both proves and parodies the necessity of the philosophical system for a narrator whose instability gives such exploration its emergent poetic urgency. In the wildly despairing and circular machinations that ensue\, this attempt at “thinking thinking” moves in and out of the body of the thinker it observes\, displaying a devastating picture of the paradoxes at the basis of all representation\, whether willful or inadvertent\, an aesthetic act or a causal order inferred through polemic and reasoned pursuit. Situ is Seidenberg’s signature style raised to the next level\, an accomplishment that calls to mind the literary contributions of Blanchot\, Bernhard\, and pre-impasse Beckett. \n  \nSTEVEN SEIDENBERG is the author of Situ (Black Sun Lit\, 2018)\, Null Set (Spooky Actions Books\, 2015)\, Itch (Raw Art Press\, 2014)\, and numerous chapbooks of verse and aphorism. His collection of photographs\, Pipevalve: Berlin\, was released by Lodima Press in 2017. He has had solo shows of his visual work in various galleries in the U.S.\, Asia\, and Europe. He is co-editor of the literary journal pallaksch.pallaksch. (Instance Press) and curates the False Starts reading series at The Lab in San Francisco. \n Poet and editor David Abel is the proprietor of Passages Bookshop in Portland\, Oregon. Two new books were released late in 2017: Selected Durations\, a limited-edition\, letterpress artist’s book published by the Black Rock Press at the University of Nevada\, Reno\, and XIV Eclipses\, a book of poems from Couch Press in Portland; two others are forthcoming in 2018: Sequitur Her\, from press-press-pull in Portland\, and Equifinality\, from Crane’s Bill in Albuquerque. A founding member of the Spare Room reading series (now in its seventeenth year)\, he is also an occasional curator and educator\, and a consultant with the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno. \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/steven-seldenberg-david-abel/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180316T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180316T203000 DTSTAMP:20260425T214432 CREATED:20180304T043348Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180310T232550Z UID:8133-1521228600-1521232200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Book Release: Amanda Cook's Ironstone Whirlygig DESCRIPTION: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 the world with words. Over days and years\, a world unfolds in this book\, palpably present and haunted by absence\, a wounded world marked by time and its slow\, sure passing\, a world to love. Amanda Cook has written a book to savor\, to read and reread\, a book to live with. \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/book-release-amanda-cooks-ironstone-whirlygig/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/ironstonewhirlygig.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180309T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180309T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T214432 CREATED:20180120T202021Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180309T014401Z UID:8062-1520623800-1520629200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:POSTPONED 10 Playwrights & 10 Ten-Minute Plays. DESCRIPTION:Due to unforeseen circumstances this event has been postponed. We will announce a new date soon.\n\n\n\n10 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\nCultural Center. \n\n$10 Suggested donation - No one turned away due to lack of funds. no reservations required. \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/10-playwrights-10-ten-minute-plays/ LOCATION:Cultural Center at Rocky Neck\, 6 Wonson Street\, Gloucester\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/10-minuteplays2018.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180305T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180305T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T214432 CREATED:20180121T030614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180121T030614Z UID:8082-1520278200-1520283600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Open Mic DESCRIPTION:Share this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/open-mic-28/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/openmicgeneral.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180228T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180228T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T214432 CREATED:20180121T014633Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180121T014633Z UID:8078-1519846200-1519851600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Poems from Ward Three DESCRIPTION:An informal get-together in Josh’s shed\, the Responders take turns providing prompts and convene every Friday night to share responses and constructive critique over drinks by the fire. The get-together became a pact of “at least 52 weeks\,” which has been fulfilled with this reading of selections from the past year. Organically\, themes of Ward Three and Gloucester weave through much of the dialog that the responses inspire. Join us and perhaps give your own response! \nJoshua Scott-Fishburn loves and lives in Gloucester\, loves and lives with his family\, and likes the challenge of learning how to write. \nCraig Plaisted has recently taken up the regular practice of writing. He lives in the same town as you\, if you live in Gloucester\, with his wife and two children. \nPeter Murdoch has lived more or less in Massachusetts. He teaches sign and symbol correspondence after having paid his dues in the trenches of religious publicity and convalesced trimming hedges in gardens of Cape Ann. \nStevens Brosnihan is an outsider poet who works as an IT professional and artist in Gloucester MA. He lives and works at the Beacon Street Farm with his small\, dear family. \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/poems-ward-three/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ward3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180225T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180225T160000 DTSTAMP:20260425T214432 CREATED:20180120T203149Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180217T202340Z UID:8066-1519567200-1519574400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:A Celebration of Gerrit Lansing DESCRIPTION:Our friend Gerrit Lansing passed away on February 11\, two weeks shy of his 90th birthday.  We had planned a reading to celebrate the day and have moved it from the Gloucester Writers Center to the Unitarian Universalist Church on Middle Street to make room for everyone who would like to celebrate Gerrit’s life on his birthday. \n  \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/celebration-gerrit-lansings-90th-birthday/ LOCATION:Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church\, 10 Church Street\, Gloucester \, MA\, 01930\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/IMG_2922.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180216T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180216T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T214432 CREATED:20180120T202444Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180212T184725Z UID:8064-1518809400-1518814800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Rory O'Connor's Tales From Another Place. DESCRIPTION:Rory O’Connor; grown and educated in the old country\, he traveled the world and got shipwrecked in Gloucester\, where he has lived for close to 400 years. Yes\, he’s an old soul and he is very excited about his upcoming birthday in 2023. Check him out as he belly’s forth his particularly humorous view of this rock; his struggle with the meaning of what it is to be human\, his books\, and his relationship to Gloucester.\nDrummer Don McBride will accompany Rory’s performance on Brushes. A not-to-be-missed show at the GWC. \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/rory-oconnor-tales-another-place/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/RORY_COMPOSIT.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180205T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180205T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T214432 CREATED:20171215T130554Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180120T181128Z UID:8026-1517859000-1517864400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Open Mic DESCRIPTION:Share this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/open-mic-27/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/openmicgeneral.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180201T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180201T170000 DTSTAMP:20260425T214432 CREATED:20171223T022344Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171223T022938Z UID:8042-1517472000-1517504400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Time to settle in with a good book. DESCRIPTION:  \nAs the cold weather settles in\, we look forward to catching up on our reading.\nThe Gloucester Writers Center starts is on its winter break.\nWe look forward to seeing you  as we open the season with our\nOpen Mic on February 5.\nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/time-settle-good-book/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/IMG_7662.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171210T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171210T150000 DTSTAMP:20260425T214432 CREATED:20171114T152744Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171203T015040Z UID:7997-1512910800-1512918000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:The Inner Voice and the Outer World: Writings by Veterans and Their Families DESCRIPTION:Share this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/inner-voice-outer-world-writings-veterans-families/ LOCATION:Gloucester House\, 63 Rogers Street\, Gloucester CATEGORIES:big event,Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/GWC_Anth_Poster3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171204T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171204T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T214432 CREATED:20171019T114544Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171019T114544Z UID:7942-1512415800-1512421200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Open Mic DESCRIPTION:Share this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/open-mic-26/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/openmicgeneral.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171204T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171204T190000 DTSTAMP:20260425T214432 CREATED:20171021T125344Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171127T223321Z UID:7952-1512410400-1512414000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:NaNoWriMo Reading for Young Adults DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n  \nMonday\, December 4: NaNoWriMo Reading at the Gloucester Writers Center \nJoin us at 126 East Main Street for a celebration of all of our hard work. \n  \nQuestions?  Contact AnnaKatherine Amacker at Amacker@sawyerfreelibrary.org or Amanda Cook at amanda@gloucesterwriters.org. For more NaNoWriMo resources visit nanowrimo.org. \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/nanowrimo-reading-young-adults/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171201T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171201T213000 DTSTAMP:20260425T214432 CREATED:20171111T212236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171122T165232Z UID:7990-1512156600-1512163800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Fish Tales: Road Trip! DESCRIPTION:If you’re looking for something a little different to do with your Friday evening\, try attending a Fish Tales; a popular\, oral storytelling event\, hosted by the Gloucester Writers Center. For every new Fish Tales\, there is a chosen theme\, and local storytellers gather to tell their tales. Whether the theme is baseball or nerds\, therapy or pets; the topics touch upon a healthy range of subjects\, and the storytellers are members of local communities. This time around\, the stories will be about Road Trips! Come hear stories of adventure\, and road trip mayhem on the evening of December 1st at the Gloucester Stage Company. Tickets are $25\, but no one is turned away for lack of funds. The ticket price benefits both the Gloucester Writers Center\, and Gloucester Stage Company; local non-profits that support the arts.\nAt the Gloucester Writers Center\, Our mission is to celebrate\, preserve and promote the future of Gloucester’s rich literary legacy\, and to ensure that diverse voices can explore\, develop\, and be heard through dialogue\, the literary arts\, and the artistic process. \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/fish-tales-road-trip/ LOCATION:Gloucester Stage Company\, 267 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, MA\, 01930\, United States CATEGORIES:big event,Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/FishTales18.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171129T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171129T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T214432 CREATED:20171017T153623Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171122T121224Z UID:7938-1511983800-1511989200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Danuta Borchardt DESCRIPTION:Danuta Borchardt’s memoir\, Life behind an Author’s Works—Memoir of a Translator\, subtitled How I Came to Translate Witold Gombrowicz and the Many Faces of Thom covers about twenty years of her life. It deals with the art and craft of translating the novels of Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969)\, an avant-garde Polish writer\, allegedly a nominee for the 1967 Nobel Prize for Literature. \nSince she is not a native speaker of English\, she interweaves her memoir with her life with her former husband\, Thom Lane\, a native speaker of American English. He becomes an excellent assistant in this work\, and an admirer of the Gombrowicz’s style and ideas. Borchardt spares few details of the couple’s life together (and apart\, as the story evolves)\, which include adventures\, excitement and heart-break. \nBorchardt’s interview with John Ronan on Writer’s Block\, about the memoir\, will be aired on Cape Ann TV on November 16 and November 23\, 2017. \n  \nDanuta Borchardt is a Polish-born\, retired psychiatrist\, now a writer of fiction and non-fiction\, and a translator of Polish literature. She won awards\, and a PEN nomination\, for her translations of the novels by Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969). She also published a translation of poems by C. Norwid’s (1821-1883). She has recently completed a translation of a collection of sea stories by her father\, K. O. Borchardt\, (1905-1986). \nShe is currently participating in a joint translation of scholarly writings by the Polish educator Janusz Korczak (1878-1942)\, martyred by German Nazis when they invaded Poland in 1939. \nHer non-fiction\, a memoir entitled Life behind an Author’s Works—Memoir of a Translator\, is now available on Amazon.com. \nShe has lived in the US since 1959 and in Gloucester since 1965. \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/danuta-borchardt/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/danuta.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171115T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171115T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T214432 CREATED:20171024T150824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171111T213006Z UID:7964-1510774200-1510779600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Gabe Barboza and Paul Cultrera DESCRIPTION:Gabriel Barboza was birth’d in Massachusetts – Nurtured by New Bedford /\nFall River people – Had first meeting with Walt Whitman at 16 – Digs the\ncosmos / circles / sexes / dreams – Currently learning to breathe. \nBorn in Salem\, Paul Cultrera found his way to Gloucester in 1974. While there two books of his writings (Ground Water and Journey) were published by Fathom Press. He once described his writing as “pulling the nails out of used words” and Vincent Ferrini called him “the Minimalist of the Maximum view”. Perhaps two ways of saying the same thing. At the erstwhile Cape Ann Food Co-op in 1980 he stumbled into what would become a “career” in the world of food cooperatives. Taking what he could “gather from coincidence” and what would fit into his much-maligned Fiat he began a westward migration in 1990. His first stop was Albuquerque for 8 years\, and then on to Sacramento where he spent the next 19 years transacting less in projective verse and more in financial projections while managing the Sacramento Natural Foods Cooperative. Realizing that there was more to a mind than what can be plotted on Excel spreadsheets and that there is more to life than good weather\, he gave his notice and headed back to Gloucester where he now lives again and awaits further instructions. \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/gabe-barboza-paul-cultrera/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/gabeandpaul.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171108T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171108T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T214432 CREATED:20171014T013451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171017T152946Z UID:7917-1510169400-1510174800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Jim Dunn and Laurette Folk DESCRIPTION:  \nJim Dunn is the author of SOFT LAUNCH (Bootstrap Productions)\, CONVENIENT HOLE (Pressed Wafer)\,\nand INSECTS IN SEX (Falling Angels Press). His work has appeared in various publications including Bright Pink Mosquito\, Gerry Mulligan\, Carve\, No Infinite\, Shampoo\, EOAGH\, Polis\, The Battersea Review\, and Jacket2 and elsewhere. He lives in\nBeverly\, MA. \nLaurette Folk received a semifinalist nomination and “Noted Writer” award from the Boston Fiction Festival and has been published in upstreet\, The Boston Globe Magazine\, Literary Mama\, Narrative Northeast\, Italian Americana\, Talking Writing\, among others. Ms. Folk is a graduate of the Vermont College MFA in Writing program and teaches at North Shore Community College. \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/jim-dunn-laurette-folk/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/JimDunnandLaurette.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171106T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171106T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T214432 CREATED:20171019T114437Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171019T114437Z UID:7940-1509996600-1510002000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Open Mic DESCRIPTION:Share this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/open-mic-25/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/openmicgeneral.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171101T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171101T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T214432 CREATED:20171017T145338Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171021T134807Z UID:7931-1509564600-1509570000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Laura Harrington DESCRIPTION:Laura Harrington\, award winning playwright\, lyricist and librettist\, winner of the 2008 Kleban Award for “most promising librettist in American Musical Theatre\,” has written dozens of plays\, musicals\, operas and radio plays which have been produced in 28 states\, Canada and Europe\, in venues ranging from Off-Broadway to Houston Grand Opera to the Paris Cinemateque. Harrington has twice won both the Massachusetts Cultural Council Award in playwriting and the Clauder Competition for best new play in New England.  Additional awards include a Boston IRNE Award for Best New Play\, a Bunting Institute Fellowship at Harvard/ Radcliffe\, a Whiting Foundation Grant-in-Aid\, the Joseph Kesselring Award for Drama\, a New England Emmy\, and a Quebec Cinemateque Award. Laura teaches playwriting at MIT where she was awarded the 2009 Levitan Prize for Excellence in Teaching.  She has also been a frequent guest artist at Tufts\, Harvard\, Wellesley\, Skidmore\, and the University of Iowa.  She was the 2014 Jack Kerouac Writer in Residence at UMASS Lowell. \n  \nA Catalog of Birds\, her second novel\, published by Europa in 2017\, has been praised by The Washington Post\, CONSEQUENCE literary magazine and others. Alice Bliss\, (Penguin/ Viking) her first novel\, widely acclaimed in print and online and a Boston Globe bestseller\, won the 2012 Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction. Alice Bliss was published in Italy\, Denmark and the UK\, where it was a Richard and Judy Book Club Pick. In addition\, Playwrights Horizons in NYC has commissioned Alice Bliss\, the musical with composer Jenny Giering\, librettist Karen Hartman and lyricist Adam Gwon. A workshop of the musical will take place in 2018 in NYC\, with Mark Brokaw directing. \nLaura Harrington will talk about the inspiration for A Catalog of Birds\, the books and the artists that inspired her\, from America’s Other Audubon\, to Matt Adrian’s bird art\, to field journals.  Ken Burns’ documentary\, The Vietnam War\, which chronicles the damage that comes home from war\, could be the perfect companion. \n“ … one of the great pleasures of reading “A Catalog of Birds” is that it’s as impossible to categorize as it is to put down. The smooth path of Nell’s life is interrupted by tragedy. Her best friend\, Megan\, disappears mysteriously\, and her beloved brother\, Billy\, comes home from Vietnam severely injured. At once\, the novel becomes a searing war story and a page-turning thriller.” The Washington Post. \nThe novelist and essayist\, Karl Marlantes\, is the first Vietnam veteran quoted in the Burns’ documentary: “Coming home was as traumatic as being in Vietnam.” \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/laura-harrington/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/harrington009.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171025T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171025T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T214432 CREATED:20170724T193912Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170724T194308Z UID:7770-1508959800-1508965200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Don Wellman and Michael Franco DESCRIPTION:Don Wellman’s most recent publication is Albiach / Celan: Reading Across Languages (Annex Press\, Spring 2017).   He will read from recent translations of the work of Roberto Echavarren and Néstor Perlongher\, both are crucial poets with respect to the development of experimental or neobarroco poetry from Latin America. He will also read from a new unpublished manuscript\, Essay Poems and Other Exercises. \nDonald Wellman is a poet and translator. As editor of O.ARS\, he produced a series of annual anthologies including Coherence (1981) and Translations: Experiments in Reading (1984). He has translated books of poetry by Antonio Gamoneda\, Emilio Prados\, Yvan Goll\, and Roberto Echavarren. Albiach / Celan: Reading Across Languages is from Annex Press (Spring 2017). His Expressivity in Modern Poetry is forthcoming from Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. His poetry has been described as trans-cultural and baroque. His collections include Roman Exercises (Talisman House\, 2015)\, The Cranberry Island Series (Dos Madres\, 2013)\, A North Atlantic Wall (Dos Madres\, 2010)\, Prolog Pages (Ahadada\, 2009)\, and Fields (Light and Dust\, 1995). \nMichael Franco is a poet\, playwright and artist. He has been contributing editor for lift magazine\, and a member of the poetry panel for Agni magazine. For ten years he directed the Word of Mouth Reading Series in Cambridge Ma. In the fall of 2016 he inaugurated a new series\, Xit the Bear in the Press Room at Oxford Street. \nHis previous publications include: The Library Of Dr Dee\, [dromenon press for Pressed Wafer 2006]\, How To Live [Zoland\, Cambridge Ma. 1998]. The Journals of the Man Who Kept Bees (complete second Circumference\, [lift 1996]\, Tales from the Portuguese\, dromenon press\, 1996]\, A Book of Measure\, (opening circumference) [dromenon press 1993]\, Parallel Lines [dromenon press 1988]\, Narration [dromenon press\, 1985]\, Conferences [ dromenon press1986] and Ancient Art and Ritual [1977]. \nForthcoming: From the Library of A Book of Measure:“The Marvels of David Leering” [Fall/Winter 2017\, Pressed Wafer\, Brooklyn]. \nHe lives and works in Somerville Mass. with his wife Isabel and son Thomas. \n  \n  \n  \n___________________________ABOUT A book of Measure :: \nFor close to 20 years I’ve been reading in manuscript and in small published batches Michael Franco’s ongoing field of activity: A Book of Measure. How wonderful to have Volume One in print for a larger reading public.  This long evocative and provocative poem in prose is a unique work\, a verbal collage in the manner of Jess in which perceived and imagined realities meld to create a whole that is more than the sum of its individual parts. Franco’s unique kaleidoscopic achievement is about Mind\, interlacing entrances and exits\, moving landscapes in both time and space\, and above all about the very act of reading and writing\, or in the words of Rilke\, “Everything is gestation\, then bringing forth.” \nChristopher Sawyer-Lauçanno \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/don-wellman-michael-franco/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/DonMichael.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171024T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171024T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T214432 CREATED:20170901T153840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171017T133717Z UID:7864-1508864400-1508875200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Meet the Author Night: Anita Diamant DESCRIPTION:Rescheduled for October 24 \n  \n  \n  \nAnita Diamant\,\nNew York Times Bestselling Author \nOctober 24th from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm.\nThe Azorean Restaurant\, 133 Washington Street\, Gloucester\, Massachusetts\nLimited Number of Tickets Available Online ONLY.\n$50.00 per person\, includes a wide variety of delicious tapas (cash bar)\nProceeds benefit the Gloucester Writers Center \nPresentation Topic: Anita’s relationship to Cape Ann and how it figures into her books (Good Harbor\, Last Days of Dogtown and Boston Girl) and life.\nDon’t forget to bring one of your Anita Diamant books to be signed by the author! \nwww.anitadiamant.com\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/meet-author-night-anita-diamant/ LOCATION:The Azorean\, 133 Washington Street\, Gloucester CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Anitadiamant.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171021T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171021T150000 DTSTAMP:20260425T214432 CREATED:20170516T152221Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171014T022810Z UID:7678-1508590800-1508598000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Charles Olson Lecture: Ann Charters DESCRIPTION:Ann Charters\, noted Beat Generation scholar\, photographer\, and Professor Emerita at University of Connecticut\, Storrs\, visits Gloucester to discuss her correspondence with poet Charles Olson. Beginning in 1968 with Charters’ request for Olson to reflect on his “earliest enthusiasm for Melville\,” and continuing until late 1969\, these letters traverse the final two years of Olson’s life. Centered on Charters’ book Olson/Melville: A Study of Affinity\, the correspondence ultimately maps two writers’ existence in an America that is simultaneously experiencing the wonder of the moon landing and the chaotic escalation of the Vietnam War. All the while\, their exchanges navigate the convolutions of Olson’s ideas about history\, space\, and time in relation to his pivotal book Call Me Ishmael and his Black Mountain College lectures. \nAnn Charters is the author of the first biography of Jack Kerouac\, published in 1973\, as well as a number of major studies of Beat literature and its personalities. She began taking photographs in 1958 on Andros Island in the Bahamas to document Samuel Charters’ field recordings for Folkways Records. These photographs of musicians are featured in Blues Faces: A Portrait of the Blues (David Godine Books\, 2000). Her photographs of Kerouac\, Ginsberg\, Kesey\, and others are included in Beats & Company: Portrait of a Literary Generation (Doubleday\, 1986). Her photo essay on Charles Olson in Gloucester was published in Olson/Melville: A Study in Affinity (Oyez\, 1968). Her photos also illustrated Samuel Charters’ The Poetry of the Blues (Oak Publications\, 1963) and Songs of Sorrow: Lucy McKim Garrison and Slave Songs of the United States (University Press of Mississippi\, 2015). Ann Charters’ photo essay featuring the Nobel Prize-winning poet Tomas Tranströmer is included in Samuel Charters’ translation of Tranströmer’s BALTICS\, published by Tavern Books in 2012. \nImage: Charles Olson and Ann Charters walking on the Boulevard in Gloucester\, Mass.\, 1967. Photo credit: Sam Charters. Author information from Small Press Distribution (SPD)\, spdbooks.org. \n\n\nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/charles-olson-lecture-ann-charters/ LOCATION:Cape Ann Museum\, 27 Pleasant Street\, Gloucester\, MA\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/olson_-_charters.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171018T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171018T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T214432 CREATED:20170522T151647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171017T140040Z UID:7690-1508355000-1508360400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Peter Anastas and Bob Buckeye. DESCRIPTION:  \nRobert Buckeye and Peter Anastas will read from new work in fiction and non-fiction\, followed by a dialogue focusing on the writers and texts that have informed and inspired their writing and brought them to where they are now. \nAnastas will read from his recently completed memoir From Gloucester Out.  Buckeye will read from Fade\, a novel that takes place in Bratislava. \nAnastas is a Gloucester native whose most recent publication is A Walker in the City\, a selection from his weekly columns in the Gloucester Times. \nBuckeye lives in Vermont and has had seven works of fiction published\, including works on Edvard Munch\, the Detroit Riot\, Trotsky’s daughter\, Zina\, and the infamous Countess Elizabeth Bathory as well as works set in places such as Puerto Rico\, Bratislava\, and Montreal. \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/peter-anastas-bob-buckeye/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/anastasbuckeye-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171013T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171013T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T214432 CREATED:20170924T131837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170928T152150Z UID:7897-1507923000-1507928400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Joel Dinerstein DESCRIPTION:Joel Dinerstein is the author of several works on the history of cool\, including The Origins of Cool in Postwar America (University of Chicago\, May 2017)\, Coach: A Study of New York Cool (Rizzoli 2016)\, and American Cool (2014). He was the co-curator of American Cool (2014)\, an acclaimed photography and cultural history exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian based on his own research and theories. He is also the author of an award-winning cultural history of jazz and industrialization\, Swinging the Machine: Modernity\, Technology\, and African-American Culture (2003)\, as well as several articles on American identity and popular culture (e.g.\, film noir\, jazz\, literature\, technology\, sports\, rock-and-roll).  He has served as a consultant for popular music and jazz for Putumayo Records\, HBO’s Boardwalk Empire\, and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). He has received the Student Body Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and teaches courses at the intersection of modernism\, popular culture\, African-American Studies\, and contemporary literature.  He was a jazz DJ for seven years on WWOZ-FM in New Orleans and also teaches courses on blues\, jazz\, and New Orleans musical culture. He has written several insider articles about New Orleans second-line culture as a member of the Prince of Wales club. He has a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Texas (Austin) and was educated exclusively at public schools. \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/joel-dinerstein/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/joeldinerstein.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR