We Resist: A Reading.
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesIn collaboration with RESIST: The Art of Protest.
The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
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Fish Tales: I Protest.
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesIn collaboration with RESIST: The Art of Protest.
Richard Deming and Nancy Kuhl
Richard Deming will read from his latest collection of poems, Day for Night; the work takes its title from the cinematic term for shooting night scenes during the day. Deming’s complex lyricism explores the ways that art, film, music, and literature creates possibilities for human encounter and interaction even as it considers the impossibilities of ever truly […]
DIG IN!
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesAs part of the RESIST exhibition at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck Cape Ann Farmers Market presents: Dig In: A Conversation about the Politics of Food Saturday July 1st 5:00 – 8:00 Cooking Demos Interactive Activities Postcard Writing Vendors and A Panel Discussion about Food Activism co-sponsored by the Gloucester Writers Center 6:00 pm […]
Open Mic SCHEDULE CHANGE
Each reader gets five minutes. Sign up at the door. Bring your words. Get heard!
Olivia Kate Cerrone: The Hunger Saint
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterTHE HUNGER SAINT is a story of hope and survival set in post-WWII Italy. Hailed by Kirkus as "a well- crafted and affecting literary tale," this historical novella follows the journey of Ntoni, a twelve-year-old boy forced to labor in Sicily's sulfur mines to support his family after his father's untimely death. Faced with life-threatening […]
Rick Berlin
The Paragraphs is a memoir of a life in music, made up of vignettes penned as exercises in songwriting by Boston music icon Rick Berlin. Created from fragments used to write songs, this memoir recalls a life of music, a relationship with the animal world, and a two-day meth-fueled road trip. Berlin, a queer Boston […]
Hettie Jones: Weekend Memoir Workshop
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterStudents in this workshop will begin to create a personal memoir in the context of its own time and place. Guided by exercises and examples from published work, each three-hour session will offer time for both writing and oral critique. Best known for How I Became Hettie Jones, her memoir of the “beat scene” of […]
Stephanie Cassatly
When Stephanie Cassatly was 18 years old, her mother was shot and killed in a convenience store robbery in New Orleans, changing every preconceived notion she had about the world and what it meant to feel safe. Twenty years later, she found her mother’s killer and forgave him, just before he died in the notorious […]
Open Mic
Each reader gets five minutes. Sign up at the door. Bring your words. Get heard!
Lee Van Der Voo. Fish Market: Inside the Big Money Battle for the Ocean & Your Dinner Plate.
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterAboard fishing vessels from Alaska to Maine, inside restaurants of top chefs, and from the halls of Congress, in The Fish Market, journalist Lee van der Voo tells the story of the people and places left behind in the era of ocean privatization―a trend that now controls more than half of American seafood. Following […]
Cathy Strisik, Ani Gjika and Pui Ying Wong
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterCathy Strisik is author of two poetry collections, The Mistress (3: A Taos Press, 2016), recently nominated for the New Mexico/Arizona Book award, and Thousand-Cricket Song (2010, 2nd edition, 2016 Plain View Press), and manuscript-in-progress, Pitchfork, as well as co-founder and editor of the online journal, Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art (www.taosjournalofpoetry.com). Strisik, […]
Charles Guiliano and Geoffrey Movius
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterCharles Giuliano returns to Cape Ann to read from his fourth and newest book Gloucester Poems: The Nugents of Rockport. Giuliano has a long family history in Gloucester and he comes back to share his excavations and observations in this new volume. Geoffrey Movius first came to Cape Ann in the summer of 1944, and has […]
Reading of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Gloucester City Hall Dale Avenue, Gloucester, MA, United StatesWorldwide Reading of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 6 September 2017 Click here for a list of readings around the world. Details to follow.
Jonathan Bayliss Birthday Bash and Gilgamesh Play Reading
To celebrate the September 7, 1926 birth of Jonathan Bayliss, the playwright and novelist who died in 2009 here in the city of his fiction, Cape Ann residents will read portions of his play The Acts of Gilgamesh. The play is loosely based on the ancient Gilgamesh epic, takes place in Sumer (now southern Iraq), […]
Michael Casey and Paul Marion
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterThe publication of Michael Casey's latest book, There It Is: New & Selected Poems, has been called "an event to celebrate" (Edward Field). The winner of the 1972 Yale Younger Poets Prize for his stunning collection of Vietnam War poems titled Obscenities, Casey is the author of several collections, including Millrat and Check Points. […]
Open Mic
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester
Ben Berman and Joshua Scott-Fishburn
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterBen Berman’s first book, Strange Borderlands, won the 2014 Peace Corps Award for Best Book of Poetry and was a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Awards. His second collection, Figuring in the Figure, is recently out from Able Muse Press. He has received awards from the New England Poetry Club and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and Somerville […]