The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
Charles Giuliano returns to Cape Ann to read from his fourth and newest book Gloucester Poems: The Nugents of Rockport. Giuliano has a long family history in Gloucester and he comes back to share his excavations and observations in this new volume. Geoffrey Movius first came to Cape Ann in the summer of 1944, and has […]
Worldwide Reading of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 6 September 2017 Click here for a list of readings around the world. Details to follow.
To celebrate the September 7, 1926 birth of Jonathan Bayliss, the playwright and novelist who died in 2009 here in the city of his fiction, Cape Ann residents will read portions of his play The Acts of Gilgamesh. The play is loosely based on the ancient Gilgamesh epic, takes place in Sumer (now southern Iraq), […]
The publication of Michael Casey's latest book, There It Is: New & Selected Poems, has been called "an event to celebrate" (Edward Field). The winner of the 1972 Yale Younger Poets Prize for his stunning collection of Vietnam War poems titled Obscenities, Casey is the author of several collections, including Millrat and Check Points. […]
Ben Berman’s first book, Strange Borderlands, won the 2014 Peace Corps Award for Best Book of Poetry and was a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Awards. His second collection, Figuring in the Figure, is recently out from Able Muse Press. He has received awards from the New England Poetry Club and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and Somerville […]
FISH TALES With Maureen Aylward Birth It's all about creation. Friday, September 15th 7:30 Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street East Gloucester $10 Donation – no one turned away due to lack of funds In partnership with the North Shore Postpartum Task Force
“Memoirs of Places & Phrases” with Kate Tarlow Morgan Kate Tarlow Morgan is a choreographer, NEST (New England States Touring) Artist, and grateful artist-in-residence at Gloucester Writers Center. She is editor-in-chief of Currents Journal for the Body-Mind Centering Association, and editorial consultant for Lost & Found Poetics Document Initiative at C.U.N.Y-Center for Humanities. As […]
Each reader gets five minutes. Bring your words. Get heard!
Writing Through Preston Hood and Dorothy Shubow Nelson will read from their recent poems in response to each other's work, and share a few of Vincent Ferrini's and Charles Olson's poems as well. Open mic and refreshments afterwards. Dorothy Shubow Nelson’s poems have appeared in Polis IV, 2014; Human Architecture VII, 2009; Consequence Vol. I, […]