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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20190310T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20191103T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20200308T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20201101T050000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190403T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190403T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103459 CREATED:20190210T035429Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190210T041056Z UID:8946-1554319800-1554325200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Yonghong Gu and Joseph Torra DESCRIPTION:Yonghong Gu is from Suzhou\, China. She is a visiting scholar at UMass Boston. She has studied history\, literature and business. She has worked in education and business. \n  \nJoseph Torra is a poet\, fiction writer\, editor and teacher.\n  \nBeing Exiled is a novel in progress by Yonghong Gu. She and Joseph Torra are currently translating the book into English. They will read from the novel\, both in Chinese and English\, and discuss the translating process.\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/yonghong-gu-and-joseph-torra/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/torra.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190401T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190401T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103459 CREATED:20190210T042110Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190210T042110Z UID:8951-1554147000-1554152400@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-40/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190327T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190327T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103459 CREATED:20190210T043117Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190210T043117Z UID:8958-1553715000-1553720400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Brenda Coultas DESCRIPTION:Brenda Coultas’ poetry can be found in the recent anthologies: Readings in Contemporary Poetry published by the  DIA art foundation\, What is Poetry (Just Kidding\, I Know You Know) Interviews from the Poetry Project newsletter\, (1983-2009) and Symmetries Three years of Art and Poetry at Dominque Levy. This fall Coultas was a featured blogger for Harriet\, at the Poetry Foundation.org and in Bomb\, Hurricane Review\, and other journals. Books include: The Tatters (Wesleyan)\, A Handmade Museum and The Marvelous Bones of Time (Coffee House 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/brenda-coultas-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/2019/01/brendacoultas.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190320T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190320T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103459 CREATED:20190126T174122Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190316T174100Z UID:8911-1553110200-1553115600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Linda McCarriston and Robert Booth DESCRIPTION:  \nLike Vincent Ferrini\, poet Linda McCarriston is a native of Lynn. She has two sons and four granddaughters. It took her much longer to settle in Gloucester than it did Vincent (she treasures a copy of No Smoke that he gave her in 2002). Educated in Lynn’s Catholic schools\, she won some high-school writing prizes. On the day she was to receive a Boston Globe journalism award\, she was unable to get the afternoon off from her job and couldn’t attend the ceremony. She did get to the University of Alaska\, where she taught poetry for 21 years; and she did get to the National Book Awards in 1992\, for her second book of poems\, Eva-Mary\, which had won the Terrence Des Pres Prize. Her first and third books of poems\, Talking Soft Dutch\, and Little River\, are likewise still in print. She has published poems widely\, in The Atlantic\, Poetry\, and many other journals\, and has received fellowships from the N.E.A\, Vermont Council on the Arts\, and the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. She has also published prose\, especially on issues related to “the working class\,” and is proud to say that her work\, both teaching and writing\, has often gotten her into trouble. \n  \n\n\n\n\nRobert Booth is a writer and the manager of a national mental healthcare nonprofit. He has written a few books of nonfiction\, including a feminist history\, The Women of Marblehead (2016); Mad For Glory (2015)\, about nation-building and imperialism in 1813; and Death Of An Empire (2011)\, about Salem’s demise as a world trading center (Boston Globe bestseller etc.). Booth is finishing one more book of history (Untamed Spirits\, about Marblehead and Gloucester in the 1600s) but has been overcome by post-factualism and has turned to writing poems\, fiction\, scripts for documentary films\, screenplays (Confession\, based on his Salem book)\, and plays (The Long Trick\, mainly about Gloucester). His hobbies are oil painting\, baking\, and candlepin bowling. He lives with his daughter and their cats and lizards in his native Marblehead\, and is trying to open a bowling alley in Salem. \n\n\n\n\n\n\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/linda-mccarriston-and-robert-booth/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/mccarristonbooth.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190315T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190315T213000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103459 CREATED:20190210T033618Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190303T024842Z UID:8938-1552678200-1552685400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Fish Tales: Family Secrets DESCRIPTION:  \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-9/ LOCATION:Gloucester Stage Company\, 267 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, MA\, 01930\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/FishTales-FamSecrets.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190313T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190313T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103459 CREATED:20190126T175335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190213T215817Z UID:8917-1552505400-1552510800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Otto Laske and Zvi Sesling DESCRIPTION:Otto Laske was born in what is now West Poland (Wroclaw/Breslau) three years before the onset of World War II. His first poetry emerged in German at age 15\, perhaps as a result of war trauma and the return of his father from Russian prison camps when he was 11. After studies in music\, the social sciences\, and philosophy (Frankfurt School 1956-66)\, Otto came to the U.S. as a Fulbright student in music composition at New England Conservatory in 1966. Living in the U.S. led him at age 32 to writing in English\, which he continued into the middle 1990s. He turned from music to the visual arts when coming to Gloucester\, MA\, in 2010. \nOtto Laske’s poetic work consists of a large collection of German poems called “Silesian Word Smithy” (Schlesische Sprachschmiede) for which he is presently negotiating a contract with a publisher in Germany. His English poetry comprises four collections of over 100 poems called — from earlier to later — Tremblings\, Untold Harmonies\, Karman Poems\, and Renewal by Fire. Pieces from these collections have been published in multi-lingual journals such as Osiris since the early nineties. \nOtto’s writing practice was originally influenced by German expressionism (Gottfried Benn\, Paul Celan). In English\, it was open to many influences including algorithmic “sentence generators” in the 1990s. His artistic output is now part of the “Otto Laske Archive” comprising music compositions\, animations\, digital paintings and drawings at Texas State University\, San Marcos\, Texas. \nOtto’s reading will start with a few German originals and their translations and continue with selected pieces from his four English poetry collections. \n  \n  \nZvi A. Sesling\, Brookline\, MA Poet Laureate\, has published poetry in numerous magazines both in print and online in ten countries. Among the publication credits are: Slant\, Midstream\, Main Street Rag\, Prosopisia (India)\, Ibbetson St.\, Saranac Review\, New Delta Review\, The Chaffin Journal\, Green Door (Belgium)\, Voices Israel (Israel) and Levure Litteraire (France). He has won several poetry prizes in Israel and was a featured poet in the Tenth Annual Jewish Poetry Festival and at First Light Night in Brookline\, MA. His poetry was used in the Spring Rain Poetry Festival on Cyprus in 2012. Sesling reviews for the Boston Small Press & Poetry Scene\, is Editor of Muddy River Poetry Review. He has been a featured reader in various venues in the Boston area and San Diego\, and in the Massachusetts Poetry Festival and the National Boston Poetry Festival. Sesling has done readings on local cable television and radio stations and was selected by Boston Poet Laureate Sam Cornish to read at the New England PEN Discovery Reading. He is author of War Zones\, which is nominated for Mass Center for the Book Poetry Award\, The Lynching of Leo Frank\, which was nominated for the National Jewish Poetry Book Award\, Fire Tongue and King of the Jungle\, as well as two chapbooks\, Love Poems From Hell and Across Stones of Bad Dreams. He has taught at Suffolk University\, Emerson College and Boston University. He lives in Chestnut Hill\, MA with his wife Susan J. Dechter. \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/otto-laske-and-zvi-sesling/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190310T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190310T173000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103459 CREATED:20190219T165406Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190303T011428Z UID:8997-1552233600-1552239000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:International Women's Day DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate International Women’s Day by reading writing by women.  Bring a short piece (up to 5 minutes) by a woman to share with the group\, or come to listen. \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-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/2019/02/IMG_3946.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190306T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190306T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103459 CREATED:20190105T205452Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190226T160708Z UID:8791-1551900600-1551906000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Elicitor Launch Party DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nJoin us as we celebrate the work of Gloucester High School students with the launch of the literary magazine\, the Elicitor.  Readers to be announced. \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/elicitor-launch-party/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/jjust-the-cover-bro.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190304T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190304T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103459 CREATED:20190210T041722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190305T003214Z UID:8949-1551727800-1551733200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Open Mic CANCELED DUE TO SNOW 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-39/ 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:20190227T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190227T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103459 CREATED:20181219T212015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190126T173630Z UID:8777-1551295800-1551301200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Dan Wilcox DESCRIPTION:Dan Wilcox is the host of the Third Thursday Poetry Night at the Social Justice Center in Albany\, N.Y. and is a member of the poetry performance group “3 Guys from Albany”.  As a photographer\, he claims to have the world’s largest collection of photos of unknown poets.  He has been a featured reader at all the important poetry venues in the Capital District & throughout the Hudson Valley and is an active member of Veterans for Peace.\n\nHe also publishes poetry under the imprint\, A.P.D. (albany’s poetic device\, another pleasant day\, etc.).  His own poems have been published in  Post Traumatic Press 2007\, Chronogram\, Poetica and most recently in the anthology Ghost Fishing: an Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology and in other small press journals and anthologies\, on the internet\, as broadsides & in self-published chapbooks.  His chapbook Gloucester Notes is available from FootHills Publishing.  You can read his Blog at dwlcx.blogspot.com.\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/dan-wilcox/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings,Writer in Residence ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/danwilcox2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190213T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190213T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103459 CREATED:20190105T210500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190205T153913Z UID:8793-1550086200-1550091600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:A Reading of Rockport Writing Groups DESCRIPTION:The Gloucester Writers Center invites members of two long-standing Rockport writing groups to share their work. With readings by Connie Komack\, Joe Muzio\, Chuck Francis\, Caroline Haines\, Jean Keith\, Holly Herring\, and Joe Rukeyser. \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/a-readding-of-rockport-writing-groups/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Screen-Shot-2019-01-22-at-5.52.46-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190206T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190206T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103459 CREATED:20181219T211504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190126T170449Z UID:8773-1549481400-1549486800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Jennifer Martelli and Cindy Veach DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Martelli is the author of My Tarantella (Bordighera Press). Most recently\, her work has appeared in Tinderbox Poetry\, The Bitter Oleander\, Sugar House Review\, The Baltimore Review\, and The Superstition Review. She has been nominated for both the Pushcart and Best of the Net Prizes and is the recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant for Poetry. She is a poetry editor for The Mom Egg Review. \n  \nJennifer will be reading from her new collection\, My Tarantella\, as well as some of her newer work. \n  \nAlthough My Tarantella centers around the 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese and violence against women\, it also speaks to the author’s upbringing as a girl in an Italian-American home in Revere\, Massachusetts. From that vantage point\, the poems explore trauma caused by the 2016 Presidential election. Kitty Genovese is woven throughout the book as a reminder that she is a living presence to the speaker. \n\n\n\n\nCindy Veach is the author of Gloved Against Blood (CavanKerry Press)\, named a finalist for the 2018 Paterson Poetry Prize. Her poetry has appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day\, AGNI\, Prairie Schooner\, Poet Lore\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Salamander and elsewhere. She is co-editor of The Mom Egg Review. \nCindy will be reading from her debut poetry collection\, Gloved Against Blood. She will also read a selection of new poems. \nGloved Against Blood explores the relationships of four generations of women against a backdrop of the patriarchal textile mills of 19th century Lowell\, Massachusetts that were fueled by the blood and sweat of exploited mill girls and enslaved African-Americans in the south. This collection speaks to family\, lost love\, infidelities\, abandonment and the close work\, women’s work of mending what is torn and making it like new despite the forces of inherited histories. \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/jennifer-martelli-and-cindy-veach/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/martelliveach.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190204T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190204T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103459 CREATED:20181219T211906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181219T211906Z UID:8775-1549308600-1549314000@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-38/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190131T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190131T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103459 CREATED:20190126T162807Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190130T215039Z UID:8899-1548963000-1548968400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:From Infinite People to Know Fish DESCRIPTION:  FROM INFINITE PEOPLE TO KNOW FISH \n\n“The Authors are in eternity”\n            —    W. Blake\n\n                                            To be a gathering of attention\ntoward the work of Vincent Ferrini\n\n                                          Thursday\, January 31\, 7:30 – – Beyond Letter\n\n5 : the mutuality of Charles Olson and Vincent Ferrini. Analogously\nreading\n\n                                          both poets.\n\n\n\nAt the Maud / Olson Library\n108 East Main Street\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/from-infinite-people-to-know-fish/ LOCATION:Maud / Olson Library\, 108 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Classes,Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190126T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190126T170000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103459 CREATED:20190126T174657Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190126T174657Z UID:8914-1548489600-1548522000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Brenda Coultas DESCRIPTION:Brenda Coultas’ poetry can be found in the recent anthologies: Readings in Contemporary Poetry published by the  DIA art foundation\, What is Poetry (Just Kidding\, I Know You Know) Interviews from the Poetry Project newsletter\, (1983-2009) and Symmetries Three years of Art and Poetry at Dominque Levy. This fall Coultas was a featured blogger for Harriet\, at the Poetry Foundation.org and in Bomb\, Hurricane Review\, and other journals. Books include: The Tatters (Wesleyan)\, A Handmade Museum and The Marvelous Bones of Time (Coffee House 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/brenda-coultas/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings,Writer in Residence ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/brendacoultas.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190116T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190116T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103459 CREATED:20181219T210133Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190116T213201Z UID:8769-1547667000-1547672400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Mike Sperber: Joan of Arc and Doctor Dark in Bedlam's Park DESCRIPTION: \n“Joan of Arc and Doctor Dark in Bedlam’s Park” is a one-act play with four scenes.  It explores how a teenage\, illiterate\, cross-dressing\, peasant girl\, who did not know how to ride a horse\, became commander-in-chief of the French army and turned the tide on the Hundred Years’ War\, the most brutal\, barbaric and bloody war in history.\nIt asks the question–was Joan\, who had command auditory hallucinations and what appeared to be delusions of grandeur\, psychotic?\n Mike who trained in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School\, is Medical Director of Comprehensive Health Services. His previous plays are “Emily Dickinson’s Bees.Butterflies\, Breeze and Blindness.” and “Buddha and Hamlet in Bedlam.”\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/mike-sperber/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181219T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181219T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103459 CREATED:20181219T210752Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181219T210752Z UID:8771-1545247800-1545253200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Elicitor Launch DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading of work from the Gloucester High School Elicitor. \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/elicitor-launch/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181212T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181212T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103459 CREATED:20181113T191143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181211T163903Z UID:8696-1544643000-1544648400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:The Gift of a Poem DESCRIPTION:The Gloucester Writers Center invites you to  share a poem you have given as a gift\, a poem given to you as a gift\, or a poem dedicated to someone to share as we enter the season of giving. \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/the-gift-of-a-poem/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181205T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181205T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103459 CREATED:20181113T190012Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181119T164851Z UID:8694-1544038200-1544043600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Nancy Schwoyer and Rosemary Haughton: Reclaiming Home-Making DESCRIPTION:Join Rosemary Haughton and Nancy Schwoyer on Wednesday\, Dec. 5\,7:30 p.m. at the Gloucester Writers Center for a conversation about the book they are working on. It is based on their experiences as founders of Wellspring House and their many years of practicing “radical hospitality”.\n\nIn their words:”The phrase ‘home-making’ has traditionally meant women’s work\, something of lesser importance than a ‘professional’ job.  Now\, it has become clearer and clearer that the essential work of both women and  men is to make our only home\, the earth\, a home fit for all living creatures to live in.\n\nAt Wellspring\, doing the everyday jobs of \, literally\, homemaking in the spirit of hospitality both attracted and inspired others \, in the words of the mission statement\, ‘to care for the earth and her people’  at many levels and into the future.”\n\nTwo of the seven founders of Wellspring House in 1981\, they work for social justice at the local\, state and national levels. They are known in several countries through their lectures and writings (Rosemary has published more than 30 books).\n\nRosemary and Nancy look forward to this opportunity to dialog with many friends.\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/nancy-schwoyer-and-rosemary-haughton-reclaiming-home-making/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/IMG_9927.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181203T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181203T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103459 CREATED:20181017T162621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181017T162621Z UID:8617-1543865400-1543870800@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-37/ 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:20181130T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181130T213000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103459 CREATED:20181021T020631Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181021T022150Z UID:8632-1543606200-1543613400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Fish Tales: OMG! 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-omg/ LOCATION:Gloucester Stage Company\, 267 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, MA\, 01930\, United States CATEGORIES:big event,Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/FishTales-OMG-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181114T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181114T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103459 CREATED:20180526T180231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181021T023646Z UID:8350-1542223800-1542229200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Randy Ross DESCRIPTION:God Bless Cambodia is a picaresque comedy about a never-married hypochondriac who takes a trip around the world hoping to change his luck with love. It’s an unflinching look at how men feel about sex\, love\, marriage\, and massage parlors. The book features adult situations\, adult language\, and more adult situations. \n“A very entertaining story about a guy who sets out to change his life…” — Booklist \n“…this story of a flawed character’s midlife crisis becomes an easy one to relate to.” — Kirkus \n\n\n\n\nRandy Ross is a Somerville-based writer\, lecturer\, and performer. His comedic novel\, “God Bless Cambodia\,” was published in 2017 by The Permanent Press\, an independent press specializing in literary fiction. His one-man show “The Chronic Single’s Handbook” has been featured at theater festivals in the U.S.\, Canada\, and Edinburgh\, Scotland. In 2007\, he took a trip around the world and learned to say in three languages: “Speak English?” “Got Pepto-Bismol?” and “Where is the evacuation helicopter?” The novel and one-man show were inspired by the trip. Previously\, Ross was an executive editor for PC World magazine. He holds a masters in journalism from Northwestern University. \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/randy-ross/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/3-author-photo-glasses-vertcl-color.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181110T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181110T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103459 CREATED:20181004T013743Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181030T135225Z UID:8581-1541878200-1541883600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Speaking of Olson: Kate Colby\, Amanda Cook and Kate Tarlow Morgan DESCRIPTION:Women’s Work on Charles Olson\n\nKate Colby is author of seven books of poetry\, including The Arrangements (Four Way Books\, 2018). A book of literary essays\, Dream of the Trenches (Noemi Books\, 2019)\, is forthcoming. Fruitlands won the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America in 2007. She has received awards and fellowships from the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts\, the Dodd Research Center at University of Connecticut and Harvard University’s Woodberry Poetry Room\, where she was the 2017-2018 Creative Fellow. Her poems have recently appeared in A Public Space\, The Boston Review\, Columbia Poetry Review\, PEN America and the DIA Readings in Contemporary Poetry Anthology. She lives in Providence\, Rhode Island. \nShe will read an essay\, The Bind\, concerning Olson\, pigment\, proprioception\, Vitruvian Man\, phenomenology\, Huysmans\, caves and locked-in syndrome. \nAmanda Cook lives in Gloucester with her husband\, James\, and children Abigail and Samuel. She sees writing as an integral part of life. She knits\, spins yarn\, plays fiddle\, feeds people and dances when she pleases. She teaches and works at the Gloucester Writers Center. Her book\, Ironstone Whirlygig\, was published by Bootstrap Press in 2017.  She is currently working on Letter to Maximus\, a poem-by-poem reaction to Olson’s Maximus poems.. \nShe will be reading from Letter to Maximus. \n\nKate Tarlow Morgan\, choreographer\, author\, and teacher is editor-in-chief of Currents Journal for the Body-Mind Centering Association\, and editorial consultant for Lost & Found Poetics Document Initiative at C.U.N.Y-Center for Humanities. As sole archivist of The Rhythms FundamentalsÒ\, based on the study of human and animal natural movement\, Kate teaches in local area schools and studios. Her book of NYC-based essays and stories\, Circles & Boundaries\, (Factory School) was published in 2011. The Gloucester Writers Center has been recent home to Kate’s “dance-formation” events including Bluesuit (2010); Fishglove (2011); The Proprioception Panel (2012); Invisible Stories (2013); An Evening with Monsieur Teste (2014); and A Letter from a Friend (2016)—all performances inspired by poets and writers of the 20th c.\, including Charles O. \nKate Tarlow Morgan’s written work is a compedium of years of movement exploration and the myopic inter-studies with favorite poets and teachers to arrive at a mere outline of what might be the real body in one of Charles Olson’s poems. \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/speaking-of-olson-kate-colby-amanda-cook-and-kate-tarlow-morgan/ 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/2018/10/speakingofolson.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181107T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181107T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103459 CREATED:20180526T160301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181030T150206Z UID:8344-1541619000-1541624400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Rough Seas: Reading and Reflections on War and Writing. With Jim Grigg and Heather Dupont. DESCRIPTION:In Honor of Veterans Day \npresenting  \nRough Seas\n \nReadings and Reflections \non War and Writing \n  \nfrom the Cape Ann Veterans Writing Workshop \n  \nJoin us for an evening to honor Veterans Day \nFeatured Readers \nJames Grigg\, Poet\, Viet Nam Veteran \n Heather Dupont\, Poet\, V.A. Health Professional \n  \nSign up at 7:15 for the Veterans Open Mic. \n  \n                                                            \nUncaring of the labors of man \nThe towering waves tear souls and sails \nSuch fury has the mind awakened. \nJames Grigg from Rough Seas \n  \nwe stand facing The Wall \nhis trembling fragmentation \npalpable as he whispers “I need to sit down” \nHeather Dupont from Faded Songs \n  \n  \nJames Grigg was born in Bremen\, Germany in 1946. He moved to the USA and was raised in Gloucester\, Mass. After graduating from Gloucester High School he joined the Marines in 1965. He served in Viet Nam from 1966-67. In 1969 he was honorably discharged as a sergeant having worked as a weapons and marksmanship instructor. James has been writing recently since 2013 and participating in a Veterans Writing Workshop in Gloucester run by Dorothy S. Nelson. Most of his writings are about war\, about his own experiences and those told to him by other Viet Nam Veterans\, many suffering from PTS. \nHeather Dupont retired to New Hampshire after a career working with military veterans at a VA hospital.  She has been published in The Poet’s Touchstone\, NH Poetry Society Journal.  She participated in the first four years of Writers In The Round Star Island as well as eight years in the long-running Monadnock Pastoral Poets Retreat. Recently it has been her privilege to join the Veterans Writing Workshop in Gloucester.  Some of her poems portray aspects of Veterans’ lives\, and it was her pleasure to give John Rogers a framed copy of War Dance while he was still living.  He asked that his story be made public.  Thanks to Dorothy Nelson for her dedication to bringing forward our writings in the anthology The Inner Voice and the Outer World.  \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/tom-laaser/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/jimgrigg.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181105T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181105T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103459 CREATED:20181017T162114Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181017T162114Z UID:8615-1541446200-1541451600@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-36/ 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:20181028T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181028T153000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103459 CREATED:20181012T134536Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181012T140505Z UID:8606-1540735200-1540740600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Ed Sanders. Broken Glory. DESCRIPTION:Broken Glory deals with the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.  Fifty years after there are still unanswered questions about whether his murder was the result of a conspiracy. Broken Glory is a graphic history told in epic verse of Bobby Kennedy’s life and times leading up to the fateful 1968 election campaign\, with 100 illustrations by artist Rick Veitch. \n\nRead a review by Ammiel Alcalay here:\n\nhttps://bombmagazine.org/articles/ed-sanders/\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/ed-sanders-broken-glory/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181027T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181027T150000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103459 CREATED:20180626T144929Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181021T015254Z UID:8409-1540645200-1540652400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Charles Olson Lecture: Ed Sanders DESCRIPTION:This illustrated lecture\, “A Life of Olson\, with Glyphs\,” will feature a sequence\nof projected color Glyphs with text and comments on key points in Charles Olson’s life\nand times\, including the personal interactions of Olson with Ed Sanders beginning\nin 1962 and continuing until Olson’s passing in early 1970. Included will be a\ntracing of Olson’s remarkable influence on poetry and writing\, lasting into this era\nand beyond\, plus Sanders’ attempt in 1968 to spur a relationship between Olson and\nJanis Joplin\, and other incidents in Olson’s epoch-stirring life. \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/charles-olson-lecture-ed-sanders/ LOCATION:Cape Ann Museum\, 27 Pleasant Street\, Gloucester\, MA\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/edsandersdrawing.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181019T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181019T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103459 CREATED:20181004T011916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181010T144309Z UID:8579-1539977400-1539982800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Fish Tales: Deadline DESCRIPTION:Fish Tales\nTrue stories told live.\nDeadline\nFriday October 19 7:30 pm\nCultural Center at Rocky Neck\n6 Wonson Street\, Gloucester\nFeatured storytellers include:\nPhoebe Potts\nHeather Atwood\nCharles Nazarian\nBill Wrinn\nand more! \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-deadline/ LOCATION:Cultural Center at Rocky Neck\, 6 Wonson Street\, Gloucester\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181010T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181010T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103459 CREATED:20180120T203509Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180325T022432Z UID:8068-1539199800-1539205200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Wendy Drexler\, Nancy Esposito and Holly Guran DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n  \nWendy Drexler’s third poetry collection\, Before There Was Before\, was published by Iris Press in March 2017. A three-time Pushcart-Prize nominee\, she’s also the author of Western Motel (Turning Point\, 2012) and the chapbook Drive-Ins\, Gas Stations\, the Bright Motels (Pudding House\, 2007). Her poems have appeared widely or are forthcoming in such journals as Barrow Street\, Ibbetson Street\, J Journal\, Nimrod\, Prairie Schooner\, Salamander\, The Mid-American Review\, The Maine Review\, The Hudson Review\, The Worcester Review\, and the Valparaiso Poetry Review; featured on Verse Daily and WBUR’s Cognoscenti; and in the anthologies Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust and Burning Bright: Passager Celebrates 21 Years. Wendy’s first children’s book\, Buzz\, Ruby\, and Their City Chicks\, coauthored with Joan Fleiss Kaplan\, was published by Ziggy Owl Press in 2016. Wendy grew up in Denver\, Colorado\, and now lives in Belmont\, MA. She is a free-lance editor and has been a poetry editor and a cavity-nest monitor for the Massachusetts Audubon Society. She’s currently in training to be certified as a poet-in-residence in the Boston public schools. Her website is wendydrexlerpoetry.com. \nWendy Drexler’s Before There Was Before is that rare book that both ranges far\, into the worlds of science\, nature and art\, and moves in close\, examining her own particular human experience. Drexler takes us back in time to the Big Bang and projects us 7.5 billion years into the future. She thinks about birds and elephants\, flies\, beetles\, crickets\, chameleons. She imagines Monet and Cézanne\, she listens to Schubert\, looks closely at film\, sculpture\, paintings and photographs. The pressure of time and the consolations of intimacy\, which animate these poems\, carry over into the more personal poems\, threading the wider vision to the tighter one. Relying always on carefully observed and imagined particulars\, she parries the pressure of time with an insistence on living attentively. “Let’s take a stab / at the dark\,” she says in the title poem. Let’s “time our tea\, // if we have tea\, / if we have time.” Drexler takes her stab at the dark\, and we are all the better for it.              \n-Wendy Mnookin \nNancy Esposito’s most recent book is Lamentation with June Bug\, Word Poetry\, 2013. Her first book of poems was Changing Hands (QRL Contemporary Poetry Series). Mêm’ Rain\, a winner of the National Looking Glass Poetry Chapbook Competition\, was published in 2002 by Pudding House Publications\, which also published Greatest Hits 1978-2001 in 2003. She received the Discovery/The Nation Award\, Massachusetts Arts Lottery Grant\, the Colladay Award\, PSA Award\, a Fulbright Grant to Egypt\, and grants to Southeast Asia as well as an NEH to study the Vietnam War.  Her own work has been translated into Spanish and Vietnamese. She has been published in numerous magazines\, among which are American Poetry Review\, The Nation\, and Threepenny Review. \n  \nNancy Esposito\, in these sustained sighing poems\, is in it for the long game. Every long line is an event horizon. See the sea writing in long hand! There are endless highways\, vectors vectoring from here till kingdom come\, a time and a place at odds even with the odds. That endless\, infinite line forms smack dab in the middle of nowhere and runs its course\, a mobius\, in the heart of the heart\, warped and wonderful\, a parenthetic parenthesis\, the periodic morphed to ellipses…. \n-Michael Martone\, Author of Four for a Quarter and Michael Martone \nHolly Guran\, author of River of Bones (Iris Press) and the chapbooks River Tracks and Mothers’ Trails\, earned a Massachusetts Cultural Council award (2012)\, and is a member of Jamaica Pond Poets. Her work has appeared in journals including Compassion Anthology\, Mom Egg Review\, Poet Lore\, Poetry East\, Hawai’i Pacific Review\, Borderlands\, Santa Fe Literary Review\, Worcester Review\, and Salamander.  Holly attends the Joiner Institute for the Study of War and Social Consequences and plays an active role in the Rozzie Reads Poetry series. \nThe River of Bones is both Lethe\, the river of dark oblivion\, and the deep\, indelible pang of ancestral remembrance articulated in the marrow.. .  [H]er poems acknowledge what cannot be retrieved as a check against false sublimity\, and a genuine register of what precious little can–the sure sign of a craft that knows its limits. In one of her very beautiful meditations on the Lowell mill workers\, “Archeology”\, the poem ends: \nWhat  we resurrect     carries back \nso little of them. \n-George Kalogeris \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/wendy-drexler-nancy-esposito-holly-guran-2/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181003T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181003T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T103459 CREATED:20180925T135632Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180925T135632Z UID:8559-1538593200-1538596800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:College Essay Program Training Night DESCRIPTION:Every Fall\, the Gloucester Writers Center organizes volunteers to go into Gloucester High School to help seniors with their college essays. You do not necessarily need to be a writer\, but good reading and editing skills are a plus. The volunteers sit in the high school library\, and students come in with drafts in all stages. Sometimes they just want to talk about what they’d like to write about\, and that helps get them started. It is very rewarding work. The schedule is flexible. Choose what blocks you’d like to work\, usually starting in early October through the beginning of December. \nTraining for this year’s college essay season will be on Wednesday\, October 3rd at 7pm at the Gloucester Writers Center. Let JoeAnn Hart know if you’d like to be part of the program this year\, and if you are able to make the training session. 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/college-essay-program-training-night-2/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR