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Veterans Writing Workshop Spring 2017
Gloucester Office of Veterans Services 12 Emerson Avenue, Gloucester, MAThe Veterans Writing Workshop resumes on Wednesday March 22 and continues on Wednesdays through May 10 at the Gloucester Veterans Center , 12 Emerson Ave. “…a journey is called that because you cannot know what you will discover on the journey, what you will do, what you will find, or what you find will do […]
Fish Tales: NERDS
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesFish 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, […]
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 […]
Short Story Writing: Structure and Meaning
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterShort Story Writing: Structure and Meaning Ann McArdle This workshop will combine reading and studying classic short stories as examples, in-class writing exercises, and writing a new and original short story. Participants will be expected to work on their writing outside of class hours as well as in class. Thursdays 9 am to noon April […]
Charles Olson’s Impact
Maud / Olson Library 108 East Main Street, GloucesterIn this six-week course we will explore Charles Olson's core poems and essays and their influence on two generations of poets. We will begin with his students at Black Mountain College and poets who published in the Black Mountain Review and Origin, broadening our scope to include the 1950s Boston School of poetry, the British Poetry Revival, Ethnopoetics […]
Fish Tales: A Celebration of Poetry Month
Sawyer Free Library 2 Dale Ave, GloucesterJeff Zinn
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterJeff Zinn, Equity actor, Award-winning director and GSC managing director will read from his memoir. "The Existential Actor : Life and Death Onstage and Off." "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 […]
Fanny Howe
Fanny Howe has written many books of poetry and fiction. Her most recent collection of poetry is Second Childhood from Graywolf Press. She was a Finalist for the National Book Award in 2014 for that book and for the Man Booker International Award,2015, for her fiction. Her newest collection of prose, The Needle’s Eye,was published […]