Elicitor Launch Party
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterJoin us as we celebrate the work of Gloucester High School students with the launch of the literary magazine, the Elicitor. Readers to be announced.
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International Women’s Day
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterJoin 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.
Otto Laske and Zvi Sesling
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterOtto 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 […]
Fish Tales: Family Secrets
Gloucester Stage Company 267 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA, United States
Linda McCarriston and Robert Booth
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterLike 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 […]
Brenda Coultas
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterBrenda 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 […]
Guided Memoir
Maud / Olson Library 108 East Main Street, GloucesterGuided Memoir: A small-group experience for new writers Make new friends and nurture your creativity as you write your life story, two pages at a time! Join a small group of 5-10 participants as we support and encourage each other through a powerful reading and writing program. Our focus is on writing and sharing as […]
Open Mic
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester
Yonghong Gu and Joseph Torra
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterYonghong 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. Joseph Torra is a poet, fiction writer, editor and teacher. Being Exiled is a novel in progress by Yonghong Gu. She and Joseph Torra are […]
Synesthesia and the Fusion of the Arts. Martin Ray and Stephen Bates.
2 Masconomo Street, MachesterA program of photographs, haiku, and clarinet compositions originating from Halibut Point. Friday evening, April 12, 7:30 at the home of Stephen and Isabella Bates, 2 Masconomo Street, Manchester. Seating 60. Reservations required, (978) 526-1443 or clarone@comcast.net. Admission is free. Donate $20 at the door to the Gloucester Writers Center, receive a […]
Schuyler Hoffman and Ruth Maasen
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterSchuyler Hoffman has published two books of poetry: Words in a Foreign Language and The Spaces Between as well as the collaborative poetry-music CD Sacrifice. His work has appeared in The Café Review and in The Anthology of Post-Beat Poetry in translation in China. His new book Signal to Noise explores the myriad ways that […]