The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
Local readers say: brought Gloucester (OK, Elizabeth Island) vividly to life, and utterly captured the feel, the look, the smell, the soul of the place Carol is an undertaker who breathes life I love BEAUTY because it's a feminist, fish thriller I know nothing about the […]
Peggy Ramback and C. Anthony Martignetti read from their books: The Lons Strange things are growing in Leonard Slinket's watermelon field. They are as light and small as Wiffle balls, turn smooth and warm, dark, yet luminous, and their vines beat with a pulse. So begins The Lons - short for watermelons - as Slinket, […]
David reads from his own work, and discusses his ongoing research into the work of "Boston School" poet Edward Marshall. Poet, editor, and bookseller David Abel is the author most recently of Float (Chax Press), Tether (Barebone books), and Carrier (c_L Books). A founding member of the Spare Room reading series, entering its thirteenth year, with Sam Lohmann he publishes the […]
Benefit performance For GWC of Savannah Disputation by Evan Smith.
We started the Open Mic in 2013 to fill a need. The Gloucester Writers Center had built a large community of interesting and interested people. We had a schedule full of remarkable readers. What was missing was the chance to hear the people of our own community and to welcome new voices to join us. […]
Eileen Myles is the author of many books of poetry and prose, including Snowflake/different streets, The Importance of Being Iceland, and Inferno (a poet’s novel) now available on ITunes in her own voice. She lives in New York and is the recipient of a 2014 Foundation for Contemporary Art Award in Poetry.
Nantucket poets read from their work. Leonard Germinara, Amy Jenness, Kim Nolan and John Stanton Photo: Richard Steinberger […]
