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:20190304T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190304T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T142037 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:20260425T142037 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:20260425T142037 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:20190207T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190207T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T142037 CREATED:20190126T163133Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190126T163751Z UID:8902-1549567800-1549573200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY: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\n                                          Thursday\, February 7\, 7:30– – The Opening of \nThe Whole Song. Focusing on a later selection of our poets work\npublished by\n\n                                          University of Illinois Press\nwith editorial work by Kenneth Warren and Fred Whitehead.\n\n\n\n\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/infinite-people-to-know-fish/ LOCATION:Maud / Olson Library\, 108 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Classes,Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190206T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190206T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T142037 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:20260425T142037 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:20260425T142037 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:20190130T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190130T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T142037 CREATED:20190105T230154Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190130T122237Z UID:8799-1548874800-1548882000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Guided Memoir POSTPONED DESCRIPTION:Guided Memoir: A Small-Group Experience\nwith Claudia Filos Make new friendships and nurture your creativity as you write your life story\, two pages at a time! \n \nJoin this small-group of 6-8 participants as we support and encourage each other through a powerful 10-week reading and writing program. Each week we will explore our life story using a flexible theme. Drawing on our memories\, both big and small\, we will examine:\n\n• our major life transitions\n• family• money\n• friendships\n• dreams & so much more!\n Each session meets for two hours. During the first hour we will engage with poems\, prose excerpts\, and quick write assignments\, as well as prompting questions proven to facilitate both writing and thinking on that week’s theme. During the second hour we will read two pages as works-in-progress and receive supportive feedback.\n\nThis group is geared toward new writers and is especially powerful for those entering or wanting to enter a new phase of life\, but everyone can benefit.Group FacilitatorClaudia Filos is an educator and personal historian with experience in community building\, peer-supported learning\, and facilitated discussion. She has worked in both traditional and non-traditional educational settings including Harvard University and edX. As a personal historian\, she is focused on preserving and sharing the personal histories of residents in and around New England. She holds an MA in Ancient Greek and Roman studies and is particularly interested in mythology and hero narratives.\n\n\n10 Weeks: January 30\, February 6\, 13\, 20\, 27\, March 2\, 9\, 13\, 27\, and April 3.\n$250\n\n\nRegister here: \n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration closes Monday\, January 28.\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/guided-memoir/ LOCATION:Maud / Olson Library\, 108 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Classes ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/guidedmemoir.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190126T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190126T170000 DTSTAMP:20260425T142037 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:20260425T142037 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:20190114T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190114T193000 DTSTAMP:20260425T142037 CREATED:20190105T192915Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190105T193010Z UID:8783-1547490600-1547494200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:The Business of Writing Group DESCRIPTION: \n \nThe Business of Writing group is now forming and has scheduled its first meeting.\n \nMonday\, January 14th at 6:30pm at the GWC\n\nWorking writers in all genres often struggle with the business end of their process. Finding new outlets for a poem or essay\, knowing which editor to contact\, keeping a regular submissions practice\, developing the best spreadsheets for record keeping and putting rejections in perspective can be problems.\n\nThose who’d like to meet once a month to compare notes\, share findings\, submit more regularly\, improve the social media promotional aspects of the writing business are invited to attend the first meeting and/or contact Rae Francoeur: Rae@RaeFrancoeur.com or Mike Perrow: mgperrow@outlook.com\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/the-business-of-writing-group/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Classes,Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190107T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190107T170000 DTSTAMP:20260425T142037 CREATED:20190105T202204Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190105T202204Z UID:8786-1546848000-1546880400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:No Open Mic! DESCRIPTION:We are still in our winter holiday. See you in February! \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/no-open-mic/ CATEGORIES:Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181219T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181219T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T142037 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:20181213T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181213T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T142037 CREATED:20181211T154240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181211T154240Z UID:8743-1544727600-1544731200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Indie Publishing Get Together DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in sharing your experience Indie Publishing or learning more\nabout it? \n\nIf so\, come to our Indie Publishing discussion on Wednesday\, October 24th from 7-8pm. \n\nTalk with other writers who have already Indie Published or are thinking about the\npossibility. \n\nIf you have any questions\, send an email to GWC Education Committee Co-Chair\, Dan\nDuffy\, daniel_duffy@comcast.net.\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/indie-publishing-get-together/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181212T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181212T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T142037 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:20260425T142037 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:20260425T142037 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:20260425T142037 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:20260425T142037 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:20260425T142037 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:20260425T142037 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:20260425T142037 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:20260425T142037 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:20260425T142037 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:20260425T142037 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:20260425T142037 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:20260425T142037 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181001T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181001T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T142037 CREATED:20180916T012226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180916T013113Z UID:8553-1538422200-1538427600@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-35/ 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:20180929T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180929T170000 DTSTAMP:20260425T142037 CREATED:20180916T030711Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180916T030746Z UID:8555-1538233200-1538240400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:100 Thousand Poets for Change Open Mic DESCRIPTION:Join poets\, musicians\, and artists around the world in a celebration to promote peace\, sustainability and justice and to call for serious social\, environmental and political change. \nBring a poem\, a song or a short piece to share.\nEach reader gets up to five minutes. \nFor more information on the global movement\, visit 100tpc.org. \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/100-thousand-poets-for-change-open-mic/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180926T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180926T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T142037 CREATED:20180818T003011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180916T011820Z UID:8508-1537990200-1537995600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Unburying Malcom Miller DESCRIPTION:Unburying Malcolm Miller \nFilmmakers Kevin Carey and Mark Hillringhouse bring the outsider poet Malcolm Miller back to life in this riveting documentary. Miller found early success with his poetry and a close friendship with McGill classmate Leonard Cohen\, but later succumbed to mental illness and obscurity and living a life on the margins. In spite of his struggles\, Miller left behind over three thousand poems. After his death in 2014\, retired Salem State Professor and writer Rod Kessler who befriended Miller in the last year of his life\, took it upon himself to sift through the body of Miller’s work and tell his story through a series of interviews with the people who knew him. The film also showcases Miller’s poems with readings by local poets in various locations across his hometown of Salem\, Massachusetts. Carey and Hillringhouse have also collaborated on a film in 2012 called “All That Lies Between Us\,” about New Jersey poet Maria Mazziotti Gillan. \nKEVIN CAREY is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Salem State University. He has published three books – a chapbook of fiction\, The Beach People from Red Bird Chapbooks (2014) and two books of poetry from Cavankerry Press\, The One Fifteen to Penn Station (2012) and Jesus Was a Homeboy (2016) which was recently selected as an Honor Book for the 2017 Paterson Literary Prize. Two poems from this collection have been featured on The Writer’s Almanac. Kevincareywriter.com \nMARK HILLRINGHOUS is a poet and a photographer\, a founding editor of The American Book Review\, and a contributing editor for The New York Arts Journal. Thrice nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, and a three-time recipient of a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship. He is a member of the English and Fine Arts Department at Passaic County Community College. His recent books include BETWEEN FRAMES a book of his poems and photographs\, and more recently\, PATERSON LIGHT AND SHADOW a collection of Maria Gillan’s Paterson poems and his black and white Paterson photographs published by Serving House Books. mhillringhouse.zenfolio.com \nROD KESSLER’s short story collection\, Off in Zimbabwe\, won the Annual Series Award of the Associated Writing Programs in 1984. His stories have been anthologized in The Literary Dog and Flash Fiction. He is a past director of the Eastern Writers’ Conference at Salem State College (now University)\, where he edited The Sextant\, the faculty magazine\, and Soundings East\, the literary magazine and was a longtime (1983-2014) professor of English and Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program. Since his retirement three years ago he has been concentrating on preserving the writing of Salem poet Malcolm Miller (1930-2014). \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/unburying-malcom-miller/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR