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  • Lynn Xu and Joshua Edwards

    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, […]

  • Getting Heard

    How to be heard by your government: Using the traditional tools of letters and postcards, we will discuss ways of expressing oneself on paper to effect policy change. We will focus on how to lobby for or against specific issues clearly and with purpose, without attack or blame. In any communication with a government official, […]

  • Simeon Berry

    Simeon Berry was born in Guilford, Connecticut, and was educated at New College of Florida and Eckerd College. He received a M.F.A. in Poetry from Indiana University at Bloomington. He has been an Associate Editor for Ploughshares, and won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant and a Career Chapter Award from the National Society […]

  • Fish Tales: NERDS

    Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United States

    Fish Tales w/ Jim Dowd NERDS Friday March 24, Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 7:30 to 9:00  6 Wonson Street Featuring: our first middle school fish tale teller Abby Cook  and Anne Donnolley, Len Pal, Sean Lally & a mystery couple who met playing a video game, him in England her in USA- now married. […]

  • Brian Sneeden

    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, […]

  • Join us for our Open Mic at 7:30 on the first Monday of each month.

    Open Mic

    Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

  • Sandra Williams and Jan Blais

    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 […]