The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
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Marc Levy
Former Gloucester resident and Vietnam vet Marc Levy will be reading from his new book How Stevie Nearly Lost the War and Other Postwar Stories. "Rhythmic, visceral, laconic, powerful, this collection of short stories will haunt the reader long after he finishes reading it." Nguyen Ba Chung, William Joiner Center, U Mass Boston
Thorpe Feidt and Patrick Doud
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterThorpe 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. Poet and novelist Patrick Doud will give a reading of both new […]
Olson Panel at the ALA
Westin Copley Place 10 Huntington Ave, BostonMay 27 Olson Panel at the ALA The Westin Copley Place - 10 Huntington Avenue 3:40 - 5:00 pm (panel) 5:10 - 6:30 pm Screening of "The Door is Open - Charles Olson"
Kyle Schlesinger: Olson at Goddard
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 […]
Annual Meeting
Maud / Olson Library 108 East Main Street, GloucesterSaturday, June 3 11:00
Love Fest
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA, United StatesGloucester 'Love Fest' - an interactive community art project traveling throughout Gloucester neighborhoods this summer to help spread messages of LOVE and POSITIVITY. Messages are written on banner paper ('Love Panels'). At the end of the project, all the panels will be brought together for display at City Hall. Share messages of love, and watch love 'ripple out' […]
Open Mic
Each reader gets five minutes. Sign up at the door. Bring your words. Get heard!
Richard Grossinger and Lindy Hough
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 […]
We Resist: A Reading.
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesIn collaboration with RESIST: The Art of Protest.
Fish Tales: I Protest.
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesIn collaboration with RESIST: The Art of Protest.