BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Gloucester Writers Center - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170816T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170816T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T043948 CREATED:20170411T155526Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170803T150524Z UID:7615-1502911800-1502917200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Cathy Strisik\, Ani Gjika and Pui Ying Wong DESCRIPTION:Cathy Strisik is author of two poetry collections\, The Mistress (3: A Taos Press\, 2016)\, recently nominated for the New Mexico/Arizona Book award\, and Thousand-Cricket Song (2010\, 2nd edition\, 2016 Plain View Press)\, and manuscript-in-progress\, Pitchfork\, as well as co-founder and editor of the online journal\, Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art (www.taosjournalofpoetry.com). Strisik\, who grew up in Rockport\, has been active in the Taos\, N.M. poetry community for over 34 years. Some poems appear in Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion\, Drunken Boat\, Connotation Press: An Online Artifact\, & Naugatuck River Review. Strisik’s been nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, and has received honors & prizes from CutThroat\, Peregrine\, and Comstock Review. \nShe will read primarily from The Mistress\, the mistress being the personification of Parkinson’s Disease. \n  \nPui Ying Wong was born in Hong Kong. She is the author of two full-length books of poetry: An Emigrant’s Winter (Glass Lyre Press\, 2016) and Yellow Plum Season (New York Quarterly Books\, 2010)—along with two chapbooks. She has poems published and forthcoming in Prairie Schooner\, Ploughshares\, Atlanta Review\, The Southampton Review\, Plume Poetry Journal\, The New York Times\, Valparaiso Poetry Review\, among others. She is a book reviewer for Cervena Barva Press in Somerville\, MA. She lives in Cambridge\, MA with her husband\, the poet Tim Suermondt. \nShe will read from her book An Emigrant’s Winter\, which was published last September\, and a few newer poems. \n  \nAni Gjika is an Albanian-American poet\, literary translator\, and author of Bread on Running Waters (Fenway Press\, 2013). She is the recipient of a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship and a 2016 NEA fellowship for her translation of Luljeta Lleshanaku’s poetry collection\, Negative Space\, forthcoming from New Directions in 2018. \nShe will be reading from “Bread on Running Waters” and\, as August is Women in Translation month\, Gjika will also read a few translations from “Negative Space.” \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/cathy-strisik-ani-gjika-pui-ying-wong/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/strisik.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170808T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170808T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T043948 CREATED:20170801T144541Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170801T144541Z UID:7806-1502220600-1502226000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Lee Van Der Voo. Fish Market: Inside the Big Money Battle for the Ocean & Your Dinner Plate. DESCRIPTION:  \nAboard fishing vessels from Alaska to Maine\, inside restaurants of top chefs\, and from the halls of Congress\, in The Fish Market\, journalist Lee van der Voo tells the story of the people and places left behind in the era of ocean privatization―a trend that now controls more than half of American seafood. Following seafood money from U.S. docks to Wall Street\, she explains the methods that investors\, equity firms\, and seafood landlords have used to capture the upside of the sustainable seafood movement\, and why many people believe in them. She also goes behind the scenes of the Slow Fish movement―among holdouts against privatization of the sea― to show why they argue consumers don’t have to buy sustainability from Wall Street\, or choose between the environment and their fisherman. \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/lee-van-der-voo-fish-market-inside-big-money-battle-ocean-dinner-plate-2/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/fishmarket.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170807T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170807T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T043948 CREATED:20170516T154100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170516T154100Z UID:7684-1502134200-1502139600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Open Mic DESCRIPTION:Each reader gets five minutes.  Sign up at the door.  Bring your words.  Get heard! \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/open-mic-22/ 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:20170726T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170726T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T043948 CREATED:20170516T151858Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170516T152121Z UID:7675-1501097400-1501102800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Stephanie Cassatly DESCRIPTION:When Stephanie Cassatly was 18 years old\, her mother was shot and killed in a convenience store robbery in New Orleans\, changing every preconceived notion she had about the world and what it meant to feel safe.  Twenty years later\, she found her mother’s killer and forgave him\, just before he died in the notorious Angola State Penitentiary.  It was then that she realized that she had been as much of a prisoner as he was. \nWith a searing honesty that will make readers’ hearts both ache and sing\, Notice of Release chronicles her traumatic and at times dangerous childhood as an expatriate in South America\, her shift from grieving college student to high powered ad-executive\, and how she reconciled her deep connection to her own children\, with her fear of being taken away prematurely from them.  In this memoir\, she proves that shedding the weight of the past can unlock a brave and beautiful future\, and comes to see that finding and forgiving her mother’s killer is as much a journey of finding herself. \n  \nStephanie Cassatly earned her undergraduate degree in Business from Emory University and her MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has been published in literary journals and anthologies and has won awards and notable mentions. She speaks on the topic of forgiveness\, is a contributor to The Forgiveness Project and teaches writing at Palm Beach Atlantic University. She resides with her husband in Florida and has two grown daughters. \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/stephanie-cassatly/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/IMG_8622_FINAL.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170719T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170719T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T043949 CREATED:20170411T150349Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170522T150626Z UID:7605-1500492600-1500498000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Rick Berlin DESCRIPTION:The Paragraphs is a memoir of a life in music\, made up of vignettes penned as exercises in songwriting by Boston music icon Rick Berlin. \nCreated from fragments used to write songs\, this memoir recalls a life of music\, a relationship with the animal world\, and a two-day meth-fueled road trip. Berlin\, a queer Boston music legend formerly the front-man of Orchestra Luna\, Berlin Airlift\, Rick Berlin: The Movie\, and The Shelley Winters Project\, and currently of The Nickel & Dime Band\, is known for his zany lyrics and unflinching wit. Exploring boyhood\, family relationships\, and the dynamic social workings of Boston through the decades\, Rick Berlin’s work is “uncategorizable…part punk\, part musical theater\, part sentimental sap\, part wordplay master. Gold” (Amanda Palmer). \n“Rick Berlin’s writing is as raw\, luminous\, open-hearted\, profane\, musical\, magical as the man himself. Put on your seat belts.” —Beth Harrington (documentary filmmaker\, The Winding Stream\, member of The Modern Lovers) \n“I love reading Berlin’s words. All the pretty young boys and girls got nothing on Rick. He can light up the darkest places.” —Carmelita (Bay State Rock\, WAAF) \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/rick-berlin/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/rickberlin2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170712T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170712T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T043949 CREATED:20170423T010832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170703T125637Z UID:7627-1499887800-1499893200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Olivia Kate Cerrone: The Hunger Saint DESCRIPTION:THE HUNGER SAINT is a story of hope and survival set in post-WWII Italy. Hailed by Kirkus as “a well- crafted and affecting literary tale\,” this historical novella follows the journey of Ntoni\, a twelve-year-old boy forced to labor in Sicily’s sulfur mines to support his family after his father’s untimely death. Faced with life-threatening working conditions\, Ntoni must choose between escaping the mines and abandoning his family. As a series of unforeseen events soon complicate his plans\, Ntoni realizes that all is not what it seems and to trust anyone might prove to be as fatal as being trapped inside of a cave-in. The Hunger Saint draws from years of historical research and was informed by the oral histories of former miners still living in Sicily today. \nThe book has received some some great press so far\, which I am happy to share with you. The reviews so far have been very favorable\, especially this one from Kirkus Reviews\, which described the book as “a well-crafted and affecting literary tale.” I’ve included more reviews in this email. The Brooklyn Rail also interviewed me about the book along with the San Francisco Book Review. \n  \nPraise for The Hunger Saint: \n“Cerrone tells her story in a deliberative prose…perfectly evoking both the setting and time period of this piece of historical fiction. The tale brings to mind American literary realism of the early 20th century—Upton Sinclair\, Jack London—as well as the books of midcentury Sicilian writers like Leonardo Sciascia. Cerrone uses Ntoni’s experiences to shed light on the little-remembered soccorso morto practice\, which held thousands of children in virtual slavery…A well-crafted and affecting literary tale.” \nKirkus Reviews \n“…a powerful survey that brings to life and personalizes the plight of child laborers and their experiences\, highly recommended for any who enjoy historical novels in general and\, particularly\, those who look for cultural insights and social messages in fiction readings.” \nThe Midwest Review \n“Powerful writing…This is a story that is very moving\, and…certainly memorable.” \nSan Francisco Book Review \n“The Hunger Saint is an exquisitely written\, vivid\, and engaging novella…Cerrone’s story prizes resilience and the human spirit.” \nThe American \n“…a good read for anyone interested in Sicilian history…the plight of the working class. The carusi and the sulfur mines are a part of history that I was unaware of\, and if that’s the case for you\, then I would deeply recommend this novella.” \nSeattle Book Review \n5-Star Review \n“A gritty novella that pulses with rhythm\, texture\, and a story that locks the reader to its pages\, The Hunger Saint is the riveting tale of young Ntoni\, who is forced to labor in Sicily’s sulfur mines to support his family. Few books treat the subject of manual labor with such fluid realism and descriptive beauty. The Hunger Saint marks the debut of a distinctive and talented new voice in North American fiction.” \n–Tony Ardizzone\, author of The Whale Chaser \n“Olivia Kate Cerrone’s The Hunger Saint is a masterful novella . . . In understated but beautiful language\, Cerrone first draws our attention by event then keeps it through unswerving allegiance to felt-life detail and sure-handed revelation. It’s a book not to be missed.” \n–Rusty Barnes\, author of Breaking it Down and Reckoning \n“The grind and terror of Sicilian mining [is] brought to such electric life by Olivia Kate Cerrone . . . all rendered in minutia that scrapes the skin and catches in the throat.” \n–John Domini\, author of Movieola! and A Tomb on the Periphery \n“. . . Cerrone’s exacting knowledge of the post-war Sicilian sulfur mines is matched only by the elegance of her prose and the depth of her compassion. Ntoni’s journey touched my heart.” \n–Lindsay Hatton\, author of Monterey Bay \n“A remarkable rendering of one young man’s life doing the barbarous\, slave-like work in the sulfur mines of Sicily . . . Cerrone’s work is nothing short of a triumph of Sicilian history\, a testament to a little-known feature of early twentieth-century Sicilian society and a sobering look at the cruel sacrifices of so many. . .” \n–Michelle Messina Reale\, author of Birds of Sicily \n“The Hunger Saint is a wonderful tale of escape and redemption. . . Cerrone’s haunting vision is both timely and necessary.” \n–Frederick Reiken\, author of Day for Night and The Lost Legends of New Jersey \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/olivia-kate-cerrone-hunger-saint/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/hungersaint.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170710T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170710T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T043949 CREATED:20170516T153930Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170611T024306Z UID:7682-1499715000-1499720400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Open Mic SCHEDULE CHANGE DESCRIPTION:Each reader gets five minutes.  Sign up at the door.  Bring your words.  Get heard! \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/open-mic-21/ 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:20170701T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170701T200000 DTSTAMP:20260426T043949 CREATED:20170624T162643Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170629T152516Z UID:7723-1498928400-1498939200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:DIG IN! DESCRIPTION:As part of the RESIST exhibition at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck\nCape Ann Farmers Market presents:\nDig In: A Conversation about the Politics of Food\nSaturday July 1st 5:00 – 8:00\nCooking Demos Interactive Activities\nPostcard Writing Vendors\n and\nA Panel Discussion about Food Activism\nco-sponsored by the Gloucester Writers Center\n6:00 pm\n Featuring\nWill Allen – Organic farmer and author\nNiaz Dorry – Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance\nCarolyn Mugar – Farm Aid\n For more information cal l 978.290.2717\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/dig-in/ 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/2017/06/CAFM_1stPg-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170628T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170628T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T043949 CREATED:20170516T145255Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170516T150805Z UID:7670-1498678200-1498683600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Richard Deming and Nancy Kuhl DESCRIPTION:Richard Deming will read from his latest collection of poems\, Day for Night; the work takes its title from the cinematic term for shooting night scenes during the day. Deming’s complex lyricism explores the ways that art\, film\, music\, and literature creates possibilities for human encounter and interaction even as it considers the impossibilities of ever truly knowing others or ourselves.  Deming is an art critic as well as a poet; he studies and writes about the philosophy of literature and visual culture. \nNancy Kuhl will from a recent chapbook about bird watching—and listening—called The Birds of the Year and from her recent full-length collection of poems\, Pine to Sound. In this work\, the mythic figure of Echo appears and recurs literally and sonically—punished for her incessant talking with the loss of all speech save her ability to repeat the last words she hears\, Echo here represents something of the powerful ways dialogue is always shot through with repetitions and echoes that both assert and occlude the emotional content of our speech.  \nRichard Deming’s collection of poems\, Let’s Not Call It Consequence (Shearsman\, 2008)\, received the 2009 Norma Farber First  Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. His new book of poems\,  Day for Night\, appeared last year.  Winner of the Berlin Prize in 2012\, he teaches at Yale University where he is the Director of Creative Writing. \nNancy Kuhl is the author of Pine to Sound\, Suspend\, and The Wife of the Left Hand and chapbooks including Little Winter Theater\, The Nocturnal Factory\, and In the Arbor.  She is Curator of Poetry of the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. http://www.phylumpress.com/kuhl/ \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/richard-deming-nancy-kuhl/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings,Writer in Residence ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/marsland1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170623T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170623T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T043949 CREATED:20170522T151335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170522T151335Z UID:7688-1498246200-1498251600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Fish Tales: I Protest. DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with RESIST: The Art of Protest. \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-protest/ LOCATION:Cultural Center at Rocky Neck\, 6 Wonson Street\, Gloucester\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170618T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170618T170000 DTSTAMP:20260426T043949 CREATED:20170522T151957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170610T153548Z UID:7692-1497805200-1497805200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:We Resist: A Reading. DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with RESIST: The Art of Protest. \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/we-resist-a-reading/ LOCATION:Cultural Center at Rocky Neck\, 6 Wonson Street\, Gloucester\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170607T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170607T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T043949 CREATED:20170411T152724Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170528T021911Z UID:7613-1496863800-1496869200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Richard Grossinger and Lindy Hough DESCRIPTION:A native of New York City\, Richard Grossinger attended Amherst College and the University of Michigan\, receiving a BA in English (1966) and a PhD in anthropology (1975). He wrote his doctoral thesis on his fieldwork with fishermen in Eastern Maine\, after which he taught fortwo years at the University of Maine at Portland-Gorham and five years at Goddard College in Vermont. With his wife\, Lindy Hough\, he is cofounding publisher of North Atlantic Books and its forerunner\, the journal Io. His works include early books of experimental prose; a series of titles on holistic medicine\, cosmology\, and embryology; two memoirs; and recent books re-exploring these themes\, related topics\, and aspects of contemporary politics and pop culture. \nAfter living in Berkeley\, California\, from 1976 for thirty-eight years\, Grossinger and Hough moved back to Portland\, Maine\, in 2014. They have also lived part-time in Manset\, Maine\, since 2001. Their children are Robin Grossinger\, a historical geographer at San Francisco Estuary Institute\, and Miranda July\, a writer\, film director\, and conceptual artist. \nFor more information and texts\, see www.richardgrossinger.com. \nI do not generally believe in reading from published prose\, so I will read from two unpublished books\, Episodes in Disguise of a Marriage and Bottoming Out The Universe: Karma\, Reincarnation\, and Personal Identity. Episodes is the second volume of my nonfiction literary trilogy. \n  \nEpisodes in Disguise of a Marriage \nThe three books in this trilogy (New Moon: A Coming-of-Age Tale\, Episodes\, and Out of Babylon) fall somewhere between memoirs and novels. My key decisions are novelistic but\, like memoirs\, they are true\, or meant to be\, though not always factual. I didn’t make up characters or events\, but I omitted things that a memoir would include and occasionally combined two or more people or events and shifted a timeline to serve the narrative arc. \nThe topic of this book is excruciating to the point of borderline unwritable. There is no comfortable language in our time for sex and sexual fantasy or\, for that matter\, the paradoxes of personal identity\, intimacy\, and relationship. For me\, being a writer bears responsibility to find language for the most challenging and elusive aspects of human existence. This agenda is existential and non-negotiable and speaks to all my work but particularly the books in this trilogy. In any other sense Episodes would best have gone unwritten. \n  \nBottoming Out the Universe: \nBottoming Out is the draft of my last volume in a series that goes Planet Medicine; The Night Sky: Soul and Cosmos; Embryogenesis: Species Gender and Identity; Embryos\, Galaxies\, and Sentient Beings: How the Universe Makes Life; and Dark Pool of Light: Reality and Consciousness (three volumes separately titled). I am working on the issue of the cosmic field\, what it is and how it got here. You can look at a working draft: https://www.richardgrossinger.com/2016/05/bottoming-out-the-universe-karma-reincarnation-and-personal-identity/. \n\n\n\nLindy Hough is the author of five books of poetry and three anthologies\, of which the most recent are Wild Horses\, Wild Dreams: New and Selected Poems 1971-2010 and the Io Anthology: Literature\, Interviews\, and Art from the Seminal Interdisciplinary Journal 1965-1993. Lindy grew up in Denver and graduated from Smith College\, where she met Richard Grossinger. In 1965 they began a college magazine called Io\, which became an influential literary magazine of the 60s-70s with its mix of geography\, film\, poetry\, Native American myth\, baseball\, alchemy\, etc. In Vermont in the early 70s she cofounded North Atlantic Books\, an outgrowth of Io. In 1977  Grossinger and Hough brought  to Berkeley; it continues to this day as a mind/body/spirit publisher—Io was preserved not as a magazine\, but as anthologies published by NAB through the early 90s.  Lindy taught writing and literature for twenty years\, did graduate work towards a PhD in Social and Cultural Studies\, and was Publisher and Editor of North Atlantic from 1994-2010. After thirty-eight years in Berkeley\, Lindy and Richard moved to Portland\, ME in 2014.\n\nDarlin’ You is a literary upmarket post World War II novel about a love triangle between two dynamic women in the early 50s and the man who loves them both.  The characters struggle with the pleasures and agonies of secrecy\, truth\, individuation\, and marriage in this repressive era against the backdrop of the uranium boom in the Four Corners area.  \n  \nIn 1953 wild commodities speculation has been fueled by Los Alamos’s need for raw uranium ore for the Manhattan Project. Nationally\, Cold War tension is exacerbating fears of widespread Communist subversion—Senator Joe McCarthy is on a rampage with a huge dragnet\, calling up suspected Communists\, conducting homosexual witch-hunts. In the Four Corners\, Navajo uranium miners are contracting lung cancer from exposure to radioactive dust. \n  \nSet during nine months in 1953\, the story unfolds from different vantage points\, including two children. The plot  is anchored by Rebecca\, a Denver collage artist who teaches in a school for brain-injured children and is married to Jeremy\, with whom she has three girls. He publishes oil and uranium trade journals—travelling to southwestern states on business\, testifying in Congressional hearings\, and leading a world tour of uranium investors. Gossip about Jeremy leads Rebecca to burlesque stripper Cinnamon Blue\, who is quirky\, outspoken\, and daring. A halting friendship is formed and deepens into a passionate love affair with consequences and choices\, as Rebecca learns that others are illuminated by illuminating herself.   \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/richard-grossinger-lindy-hough/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/RIch-Lindy-Outside-Driskill.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170605T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170605T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T043949 CREATED:20170516T153549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170516T153756Z UID:7680-1496691000-1496696400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Open Mic DESCRIPTION:Each reader gets five minutes.  Sign up at the door.  Bring your words.  Get heard! \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/open-mic-20/ 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:20170531T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170531T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T043949 CREATED:20170507T012913Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170516T135629Z UID:7647-1496259000-1496264400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Kyle Schlesinger: Olson at Goddard DESCRIPTION:Kyle Schlesinger is a poet living in Austin. Some recent poetry books include: Sydney Omarr’s Wild Children\, with the artist Flynn Maria Bergann (Further Other Book Works\, 2017); Far & Away (Textile Series\, 2017); and Let’s Drift (CL Press\, 2017). Scholarly works include A Poetics of the Press (Ugly Ducking Presse\, 2017)\, Dwell Time\, with Aaron Cohick (DoubleCross Press\, 2017) and Threads Talks\, with Steve Clay (Granary Books\, 2016). He is proprietor of Cuneiform Press\, a literary arts organization\, and the Director of the Graduate School of Publishing at the University of Houston. \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/kyle-schesinger-olson-goddard/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/DSC_8125-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170524T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170524T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T043949 CREATED:20170411T155936Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170513T120324Z UID:7618-1495654200-1495659600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Thorpe Feidt and Patrick Doud DESCRIPTION: Thorpe Feidt is a painter\,  writer and sometime actor.  His long series of paintings\, “The Ambiguities\,” begun in 1975\, continues through the present.  His novel\, “The Oracular Room\,” from which he will be reading\, was published last year by Station Hill of Barrytown.\n\n\n\nPoet and novelist Patrick Doud will give a reading of both new and old work. Born in 1968 in Syracuse\, New York\, he grew up in Bernhards Bay\, a hamlet on the northern shore of Oneida Lake\, and in East Amherst\, a suburb of Buffalo. After several years of academic wandering he found his way to Bard College in the Hudson Valley\, where he studied literature (and through friends and teachers was introduced to Thorpe Feidt’s incredible serial paintings). Books of poetry published so far are Girding the Ghost\, The Man in Green\, and Hickory Bardolino Poems. Books of fiction published so far are two American fantasies\, The Hunt for the Eye of Ogin and The Mornith War. He lives with his wife Heather and their two sons.\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/thorpe-feidt-patrick-doud/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/thorpe.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170510T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170510T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T043949 CREATED:20170303T032859Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170501T141734Z UID:7551-1494444600-1494450000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Marc Levy DESCRIPTION:  \nFormer Gloucester resident​ and Vietnam vet Marc Levy will be reading from his new book How Stevie Nearly Lost the War and Other Postwar Stories. \n\n“Rhythmic\, visceral\, laconic\, powerful\, this collection of short stories will haunt the reader long after he finishes reading it.”\nNguyen Ba Chung\, William Joiner Center\, U Mass Boston \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/marc-levy-2/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/marclevy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170501T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170501T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T043949 CREATED:20170411T152440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170411T152440Z UID:7611-1493667000-1493672400@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-19/ 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:20170501T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170501T190000 DTSTAMP:20260426T043949 CREATED:20170411T152150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170501T143542Z UID:7609-1493658000-1493665200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Getting Heard: Pizza and Postcards DESCRIPTION:How to be heard by your government: Using the traditional tools of letters and\npostcards\, we will discuss ways of expressing oneself on paper to effect policy\nchange. We will focus on how to lobby for or against specific issues clearly and\nwith purpose\, without attack or blame. In any communication with a government\nofficial\, we will discuss the importance of referencing factual information\, where\nto find it\, and the power of a personal impact statement. Bring paper\, pen\, and\npostcards and be prepared to write. Resource sheets listing to whom and where to\naddress your concerns will be available. This event is free and open to the public. \nLed by JoeAnn Hart. \n\nWe will be meeting before our monthly open mic.  If you know you will be attending\, please email Amanda@gloucesterwriters.org.  No RSVP is required\, but knowing will help us make sure we have enough pizza! \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/getting-heard-pizza-postcards/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170426T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170426T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T043949 CREATED:20170313T161124Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170313T161448Z UID:7567-1493235000-1493240400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Fanny Howe DESCRIPTION:Fanny Howe has written many books of poetry and fiction. Her most recent collection of\npoetry is Second Childhood from Graywolf Press. She was a Finalist for the\nNational Book Award in 2014 for that book and for the Man Booker International\nAward\,2015\, for her fiction. Her newest collection of prose\, The Needle’s Eye\,was\npublished in November 2016. She taught for 45 years and now lives in Massachusetts. \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/fanny-howe/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/FannyHowe-photo-e1489421669763.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170412T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170412T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T043949 CREATED:20170303T021421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170303T032120Z UID:7546-1492025400-1492030800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Jeff Zinn DESCRIPTION:Jeff Zinn\, Equity actor\, Award-winning director and GSC managing director will read from his memoir. “The Existential Actor : Life and Death Onstage and Off.” \n“This is a book for the thinking actor\, and the finest actors I’ve known are just that. The best actors bring it all together body\, heart\, spirit\, and mind. This book is for the actor who thinks about craft and influence\, who thinks about the relationship of performance to living\, who thinks about doing and what that doing means. Acting is a metaphor and it’s a mirror\, and\, so\, a theory of acting\, if true\, shows us to ourselves. Jeff Zinn knows this. He knows it as an actor\, director\, teacher\, and thinker. His theory of everything is simple and revelatory.” (from the foreword by Todd London) \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/jeff-zinn/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170411T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170411T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T043949 CREATED:20170321T143046Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170321T153914Z UID:7575-1491937200-1491944400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Fish Tales: A Celebration of Poetry Month 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-celebration-poetry-month/ LOCATION:Sawyer Free Library\, 2 Dale Ave\, Gloucester CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170405T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170405T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T043949 CREATED:20170313T160508Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170325T201139Z UID:7564-1491420600-1491426000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Sandra Williams and Jan Blais DESCRIPTION:Sandra Williams will read excerpts from Moss on Stone\, a local\, historical novella inspired by the diary of the young Susannah Norwood Torrey (1826-1908)\, a resident of Rockport\, MA in the mid-nineteenth century. With insight sensitivity\, and lyrical expression\, Susannah speaks to us\, who live in a very different time\, but not so different in human experience. All times are times of change. All lives are fraught with the joys and sorrows of being human. Here is the story of Susannah’s particular joys and sorrows imagined from her perspective in an afterlife. \nSandra taught Language Arts\, World Literature\, and Reading/Writing & Research for over twenty-five years at both high school and university levels. Having always written poetry and essays\, with several articles published in New View magazine\, UK\, she now has published Moss on Stone. Time and Tide\, a collection of short stories will be published in the fall of 2017. Sandra loves living on beautiful Cape Ann\, inspired by its beauty and its community of creativity. She is a member of the Finish Line writers’ group at the Gloucester Writers Center where she facilitates a Poetry group\, and is on the Education Committee. \nhttp:// mossonstoneauthor.blogspot. com/  \nMoss on Stone is available on Amazon. \nJan Blais will be reading selections from his new novel Finding Botticelli\, and excerpts from his novels Flight Path and Twentieth Century Limited. \nFinding Botticelli begins with the theft of a sixteenth-century masterpiece from the museum of a small college west of Boston. In a bizarre twist\, the thieves leave something behind that may be far more valuable – an apparently very old\, very fine rendition of Boticelli’s Primavera. The story revolves around finding the stolen painting and discovering what the college really has on its hands – a genuine Botticelli or a clever fake. Even before tests are complete\, the impetuous Fine Arts Department Chairman barges ahead\, making the found painting\, now being called “Primavera Due\,” the centerpiece of a campaign to save the financially-troubled museum. Though fearful of embarrassing the college and wrecking her career\, the young museum director bends to his pressure and begins organizing a blockbuster exhibition to showcase Due. The story ends with a bang and a surprise. \nFlight Path is the story of a major international airline based in New York City and its confrontation with a small regional airline on the west coast. The time is 1978\, deregulation is just taking hold and aggressive new airlines are springing up everywhere\, undercutting the established airlines with low fares and service where there had been little or no competion. But despite the disruption\, confusion and threat to the bottom line\, they all must strive to maintain safe and reliable service. \nIn Twentieth Century Limited Paul Bernard\, a disabled Vietnam vet\, becomes a prize-winning reporter\, foreign correspondent and network anchorman. Long critical of the radical right\, after 9-11 Bernard attacks the Bush administration for allowing Osama bin Laden to escape and propelling the nation into a disastrous war. On assignment in Iraq\, Bernard is killed under suspicious circumstances. Interwoven with Bernard’s account of his life is an interview of his professor/mentor by a reporter profiling Bernard for The New Yorker magazine. Frustrated by Washington’s excuses\, they set about uncovering the truth behind the killing. \nOriginally from Rhode Island\, Jan Blais has lived all over the country. Last year his wife Barbara and he relocated to Gloucester where he continues to consult and write. For further information see www.jandavidblais.com. \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/sandra-williams-jan-blais/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/sandrajanbw.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170403T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170403T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T043949 CREATED:20170324T221409Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170324T221409Z UID:7580-1491247800-1491253200@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-18/ 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:20170329T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170329T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T043949 CREATED:20170204T224543Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170204T224555Z UID:7477-1490815800-1490821200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Brian Sneeden DESCRIPTION:Brian Sneeden’s first collection of poems\, Last City\, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press (2018). His work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal\, Harvard Review\, TriQuarterly\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, and other publications\, and translations of his poems have been published in international magazines in Greek\, Albanian\, and Serbian. Brian also translates modern Greek poetry\, and his translation of Phoebe Giannisi’s poetry collection\, Homerica\, is forthcoming from the inaugural series of World Poetry Books (2017). He received his MFA from the University of Virginia\, where he held a Poe/Faulkner Fellowship in creative writing and served as poetry editor for Meridian. He is the senior editor of New Poetry in Translation. \nBrian Sneeden on his work on Olson:\n“My research on the poetry of Charles Olson has primarily involved examining the use of apostrophe and other semiotic forms of enunciative address in The Maximus Poems. I am particularly interested in how his usage of an indeterminate “you” throughout the poem establishes what Jonathan Culler calls lyric temporality via triangulated address between the “I” of the speaker\, the “you” of the addressed\, and the reader who overhears this exchange.” \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/brian-sneeden/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Sneeden-Headshot.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170324T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170324T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T043949 CREATED:20170309T234550Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170321T154448Z UID:7561-1490383800-1490389200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Fish Tales: NERDS DESCRIPTION:Fish Tales w/ Jim Dowd\nNERDS\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday March 24\, Cultural Center at Rocky Neck\n\n7:30 to 9:00  6 Wonson Street\nFeaturing:\nour first middle school fish tale teller Abby Cook \n and Anne Donnolley\, Len Pal\, Sean Lally\n& a mystery couple \n\nwho met playing a video game\, him in England her in USA- now married. \nShe fell in love the way he would say Kumquat.\n\n\n\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/fish-tales-nerds/ 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/2017/03/robot-at-the-wheel2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170319T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170319T200000 DTSTAMP:20260426T043949 CREATED:20170302T212002Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T212002Z UID:7529-1489946400-1489953600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Rescheduled! 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/rescheduled-10-minute-plays-staged-reading/ 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/2017/03/rescheduled12thstaged.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170315T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170315T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T043949 CREATED:20170223T140511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170223T141142Z UID:7510-1489606200-1489611600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Simeon Berry DESCRIPTION:Simeon Berry was born in Guilford\, Connecticut\, and was educated at New\nCollege of Florida and Eckerd College. He received a M.F.A. in Poetry from\nIndiana University at Bloomington. He has been an Associate Editor for\nPloughshares\, and won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist\nGrant and a Career Chapter Award from the National Society of Arts and\nLetters. His work has appeared in Crazyhorse\, AGNI\, Colorado Review\,\nBlackbird\, DIAGRAM\, The Iowa Review\, American Letters & Commentary\, and\nmany other journals. His first book\, Ampersand Revisited\, won the 2013\nNational Poetry Series (Fence Books)\, and his second book\, Monograph\, won\nthe 2014 National Poetry Series (University of Georgia Press). \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/simeon-berry/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Simeon.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170312T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170312T173000 DTSTAMP:20260426T043949 CREATED:20170128T013435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170312T170439Z UID:7450-1489334400-1489339800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Getting Heard DESCRIPTION:How to be heard by your government: Using the traditional tools of letters and\npostcards\, we will discuss ways of expressing oneself on paper to effect policy\nchange. We will focus on how to lobby for or against specific issues clearly and\nwith purpose\, without attack or blame. In any communication with a government\nofficial\, we will discuss the importance of referencing factual information\, where\nto find it\, and the power of a personal impact statement. Bring paper\, pen\, and\npostcards and be prepared to write. Resource sheets listing to whom and where to\naddress your concerns will be available. This event is free and open to the public. \nLed by JoeAnn Hart. \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/getting-heard/ CATEGORIES:Classes,Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170308T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170308T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T043949 CREATED:20170128T004527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170128T004527Z UID:7441-1489001400-1489006800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Lynn Xu and Joshua Edwards DESCRIPTION:Lynn Xu was born in Shanghai. She is the author of Debts & Lessons (Omnidawn)\, which was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize\, and June (a chapbook from Corollary Press). She has also received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Foundation. When not traveling\, she lives in Marfa\, Texas\, where she co-edits Canarium Books. This year\, Xu is a Visiting Professor in the MFA for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst. She’ll be reading a series of “Lullabies” from Debts & Lessons\, as well as selections from a work-in-progress\, Telepathos. \nJoshua Edwards directs Canarium Books. He’s the author of Castles and Islands\, Architecture for Travelers\, Imperial Nostalgias\, and Campeche\, and a photobook\, Photographs Taken at One-Hour Intervals During a Walk from Galveston Island to the West Texas Town of Marfa. He’s received grants and fellowships from the Fulbright-Garcia Robles Program\, University of Michigan\, Stanford University\, the Akademie Schloss Solitude\, and elsewhere. He’ll be reading poems written for collaborations with artists (including Charlotte Moth\, whose first US solo exhibition is currently up at the MIT List Visual Arts Center)\, and excerpts from a recently-completed verse novella\, Agonistes. \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/lynn-xu-joshua-edwards/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/march8.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170306T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170306T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T043949 CREATED:20170223T135234Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170223T135234Z UID:7508-1488828600-1488834000@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-17/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/openmicgeneral.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR