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:20150308T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20151101T050000 END:STANDARD 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:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170618T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170618T170000 DTSTAMP:20260426T062833 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:20260426T062833 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:20260426T062833 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:20260426T062833 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:20260426T062833 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:20260426T062833 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:20260426T062833 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:20260426T062833 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:20260426T062833 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:20260426T062833 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:20260426T062833 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:20260426T062833 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:20260426T062833 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:20260426T062833 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:20260426T062833 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:20260426T062833 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:20260426T062833 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:20260426T062833 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:20260426T062833 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:20260426T062833 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170305T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170305T160000 DTSTAMP:20260426T062833 CREATED:20170223T135030Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170225T192000Z UID:7506-1488722400-1488729600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:International Women's Day Reading DESCRIPTION:“Every Man / Every Woman carries a firmament inside\n& the stars in it are not the stars in the sky” \nDiane di Prima \nWomen of Cape Ann.\nLet us get together to celebrate\nthe writings of women. \nYou are invited to read at this event\nfrom the writings of one or two\nof your favorite women writers. \nCome to the Gloucester Writers Center\nwith a folder or book in hand to read\nif you choose. \nEveryone is welcome to listen\nand join the conversation. \nTo sign up email Amanda@gloucesterwriters.org or sign up at the door. \nPlease keep your reading to about five minutes. \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/international-womens-day-reading-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/2017/02/intwomen.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170301T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170301T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T062833 CREATED:20161223T150536Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170204T164429Z UID:7341-1488396600-1488402000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Dan Duffy and Jan Blais DESCRIPTION:Dan Duffy’s memoir Brother\, Brother; mostly truth\, part fiction\, is a tribute to his older brother Rich\, whom he will always consider a casualty of the post-Vietnam era. Missing in America for the past 45 years\, Rich mysteriously reappears along with his ’66 GTO convertible and coerces Dan to retrace the cross-country route he took back in ’70 to settle in a commune in Corrales\, New Mexico. \nWith Dan taking control behind the wheel and Rich in the passenger seat\, Dan recreates some of Rich’s experiences as a flower child/Jesus freak. They visit places like The Badlands\, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation\, Yellowstone\, The Grand Tetons\, Elko Nevada\, the Haight/Ashbury District\, Yosemite\, The Grand Canyon and Zion National Park in an attempt to understand the life Rich chose\, which was so drastically different from Dan’s. \nAlong the way they relive memories of the brief 18 years they shared growing up in the absence of their alcoholic father in a struggling single parent household of five kids. In exploring their relationship\, Dan confronts several personal issues surrounding the role Rich played in shaping who he is and the impact his disappearance has had on his life. \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/dan-duffy-jan-blais/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/duffyblais.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170222T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170222T213000 DTSTAMP:20260426T062833 CREATED:20161223T150411Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170221T160741Z UID:7339-1487791800-1487799000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Milkweed DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading from the first issue! \nMilkweed is a Greater Boston area based literary journal that features poetry\, fiction\, and non-fiction from a variety of different writers. \nMilkweed was founded with the intention of seeking out writers who produce unique and thought-provoking work. At Milkweed\, we are avid readers ourselves\, and we aim to deliver refreshing content to our audience that makes them feel excited about the art of writing. We are dedicated to looking at stories from every angle and compiling a collection of the most raw and honest work we can get our hands on. Being advocates for preserving the printed word\, we have also decided to keep our issues in physical printed form. \nIn addition to being a published magazine\, we aim to bring together aspiring writers from all different backgrounds. We want to give people an outlet to tell the stories they have always felt needed telling\, and we want to celebrate those stories as a community of creative thinkers. \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/milkweed/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/milkweed.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170212T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170212T200000 DTSTAMP:20260426T062833 CREATED:20170124T153534Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170204T164627Z UID:7357-1486922400-1486929600@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-4/ 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/2017/01/Stagedreadingsposter.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170206T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170206T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T062833 CREATED:20170124T154432Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170124T154432Z UID:7359-1486409400-1486414800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Open Mic DESCRIPTION:Each reader gets five minutes.  Sign up at the door. \n  \nBring 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-16/ 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:20170206T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170206T193000 DTSTAMP:20260426T062833 CREATED:20161223T145934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T145934Z UID:7335-1486409400-1486409400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Open Mic DESCRIPTION:Each reader gets 5 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-15/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170115T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170115T153000 DTSTAMP:20260426T062833 CREATED:20170108T035953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170108T035953Z UID:7345-1484487000-1484494200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Writers Resist: Don't Tread On Us DESCRIPTION:Local authors Charlotte Gordon\, Dorothy Nelson\, Gordon Baird\, Regina Cole\, Peter Anastas\, Rae Francouer\, Phoebe Potts\, Amanda Cook\, JoeAnn Hart and other writers and individuals from the arts community will read from literature that focuses on the importance of freedom of speech and expression in a functioning democracy. \nAs time permits\, the floor will open up to the public to share literary selections that speak to the meaning of artistic freedom in their lives. This event is free and open to the public. \nSponsored by the Gloucester Writers Center\, Eastern Point Lit House\, and the Rocky Neck Cultural Center. For more information\, please contact JoeAnn@joeannhart.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/writers-resist-dont-tread-us/ 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/2017/01/donttreadonus.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20161207T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20161207T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T062833 CREATED:20161015T173015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161107T153518Z UID:7040-1481139000-1481144400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Sara Larsen DESCRIPTION:Sara Larsen is a poet living in Oakland. Her new book Merry Hell has just been released from Atelos. Her previous book\, All Revolutions Will Be Fabulous\, was released by Printing Press in 2014. Sara has performed her work widely\, including at The Berkeley Art Museum\, Grace Cathedral\, LitQuake\, and at Multifarious Array in NYC. Over the course of two years\, she and David Brazil published more than 60 issues of the seminal literary zine Try Magazine. \n\nIn Larsen’s newly released book\, MERRY HELL\, Helen of Troy exposes the “misogynist spell” of the traditional (patriarchal) narrative that condemns her for the horrors of the Trojan War and insists “LET ME TELL YOU ALL THE TRUTH OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO ME”. As it happened\, Helen is neither abducted by nor runs off in love with Paris\, but rejects Empire and leaves Sparta of her own volition. Helen’s story\, a heroine’s journey\, is interwoven with circumstances surrounding the Pétroleuse\, or women incendiaries\, of the 1871 Paris Commune as well as those of Occupy Oakland. As Ezra Pound states\, “All eras are contemporaneous in the mind.” \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/sara-larsen/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Winter-2015-2016-314-e1476804572356.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161205T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161205T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T062833 CREATED:20160112T141308Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160816T125041Z UID:6041-1480966200-1480971600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Open Mic DESCRIPTION:Bring your words.  Get heard! \n  \nEach reader gets five minutes.  Sign up at the door. \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/open-mic-14-2016-12-01/ 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:20161202T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20161202T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T062833 CREATED:20161025T145738Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161127T003316Z UID:7058-1480707000-1480712400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Fish Tales DESCRIPTION:Get tickets here! \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-8/ LOCATION:Gloucester Stage Company\, 267 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, MA\, 01930\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR