BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Gloucester Writers Center - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20181107T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20181107T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T174518 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:20260425T174518 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:20260425T174518 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:20260425T174518 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:20260425T174518 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:20260425T174518 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:20260425T174518 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:20260425T174518 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:20260425T174518 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:20260425T174518 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180917T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180917T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T174518 CREATED:20180817T233801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180817T234031Z UID:8500-1537210800-1537218000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Guided Autobiography Group with Claudia Filos DESCRIPTION:GUIDED AUTOBIOGRAPHY GROUP: The Journey of a LifetimeJoin members of our community for a journey of personal exploration\,writing\, and community building as we:• leave a legacy for family members • facilitate life transitions• enhance personal growth • contribute to history • enjoy thethrill of self-discoveryGuided autobiography is a fun and effective process for life reviewthat combines autobiographical writing with small group experiences.Each week we will use prompting questions to jumpstart and organize our memoriesaround a meaningful life theme. The weekly sessions also provide asafe space for sharing our work-in-progress\, and participants will beasked to share two pages that they wrote during the previous week.Guided autobiography is especially powerful for those entering orwanting to enter a new phase of life\, but everyone can benefit. \nThis group will meet for ten Mondays Starting September 17 and ending on November  19 from 7-9 p.m. at the Maud / Olson Library at 108 East Main Street.\nClass cost: $250\nMinimum enrollment: 5\nMaximum enrollment: 8 \nRegister here: \n\n\n\n\n\n\nParticipants will be contacted in the weeks prior to the first meeting. \nClaudia Filos is an educator and personal historian with experience incommunity building\, peer-supported learning\, and facilitateddiscussion. She has work in both traditional and non-traditionaleducational settings including Harvard University and edX. She is theowner of Artiano Studios\, a media company focused on preserving andsharing the personal histories of residents in and around New England.She holds an MA inAncient Greek and Roman studies and is particularly interested inmythology and hero narratives. \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-autobiography-group-with-claudia-filos/ LOCATION:Maud / Olson Library\, 108 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Classes ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/claudifilos.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180914T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180914T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T174518 CREATED:20180526T164440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180916T011419Z UID:8368-1536953400-1536958800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Fish Tales: I Am More 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-i-am-more/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180913T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180913T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T174518 CREATED:20180902T020921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180902T020921Z UID:8531-1536865200-1536868800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:New Writing Group Introductory Session DESCRIPTION:GWC Writers Group Now Forming \nAre you interested in joining a writers group? Come to an Introductory Session at the GWC on Thursday\, September 13th from 7-8pm. Talk with other writers who are interested in joining a group that meets regularly to write\, share segments of their writing\, and provide each other with feedback. Ask questions of several members of GWC’s Finish Line writers group about the process they’ve followed for the past four years. \nIf you have any questions\, send an email to a member of the GWC Education Committee:\nDan Duffy daniel_duffy@comcast.net or Sandra Williams sandrosew@gmail.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/new-writing-group-introductory-session/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180910T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180910T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T174518 CREATED:20180526T163816Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180526T163816Z UID:8364-1536607800-1536613200@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-33/ 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:20180907T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180907T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T174518 CREATED:20180526T163929Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180724T143354Z UID:8366-1536348600-1536354000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Bayliss Birthday Bash DESCRIPTION:To celebrate the September 7 birth of Jonathan Bayliss (1926-2009)\, the writer who worked and died in the city of his fiction tetralogy GLOUCESTERMAN (the novels Prologos\, Gloucesterbook\, Gloucestertide\, and Gloucestermas)\,  local residents will read and comment on selected passages.Presenters include Saira Austin\, Diane Faissler\, Steve Farrell\, Doug Guidry\, Paul McGeary\, Susan Oleksiw\, Ann Rhinelander\, and Ken Riaf.Wine and birthday cake will follow the reading.  All are welcome.\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/bayliss-birthday-bash-2/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180906T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180906T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T174518 CREATED:20180818T004108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180818T004108Z UID:8510-1536260400-1536264000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Dogtown Writers Festival Committee Meeting DESCRIPTION:Dogtown Writers Festival (DWF) Committee\nNeeds Assistance… \nNew dates of Friday Sept 20th and Saturday\, Sept 21st 2019 have been scheduled for\nGWC’s Dogtown Writers Festival with the theme: “Finding Words In Place.” \nThe committee needs assistance in several areas\, including:\n-Administrative Assistance and Oversight\,\n-Marketing and Promotion\,\n-Corporate Sponsorship\,\n-Registration\,\n-Hospitality\,\nLocal Author “Bookfest”\, and\nGWC “Point Person” for each of six Saturday afternoon workshops. \nIf you’d like to assist\, please plan to attend the Thursday\, September 6th DWF\nCommittee Meeting from 7pm to 8pm at the GWC. \nThanks for your consideration. \nDWF Co-Chairs: Dan Duffy\, daniel_duffy@comcast.net \nSandra Williams\,\nsandrosew@gmail.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/dogtown-writers-festival-committee-meeting/ CATEGORIES:Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180905T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180905T213000 DTSTAMP:20260425T174518 CREATED:20180802T135820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180828T134323Z UID:8481-1536174000-1536183000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Symbiotic Earth DESCRIPTION:Symbiotic Earth\nHow Lynn Margulis rocked the boat and started a scientific revolution. Explores the life and ideas of Lynn Margulis\, a scientific rebel who challenged entrenched theories of evolution to present a new narrative: life evolves through collaboration.  “An amazing film…I was on the edge of my seat the entire film\, completely engrossed in the story and the journey of Lynn and her contributions to science and our understanding of life on Planet Earth…It really activated me.” \nJoshua Fouts\, Executive Director\, Bioneers\n\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/symbiotic-earth/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/symbiotic-Earth-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180901T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180901T170000 DTSTAMP:20260425T174518 CREATED:20180818T002518Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180818T002518Z UID:8505-1535814000-1535821200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Writing Around the Fold DESCRIPTION:Writing Around the Fold \na writing and paper play workshop for all ages with\nGloucester Writers Center’s Amanda Cook\nin collaboration with \nB O U S T R O P H E D O N S\nan exhibit at Flat Rock Gallery\nSaturday\, September 1 3:00\n77 Langsford Street\nGloucester \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/writing-around-the-fold/ LOCATION:Flat Rocks Gallery\, 77 Langsford Street\, Gloucester\, MA\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Classes,Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180822T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180822T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T174518 CREATED:20180526T163539Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180529T144949Z UID:8360-1534966200-1534971600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Raymond Foye DESCRIPTION:Raymond Foye was born in 1957 in Lowell\, Mass. He is a writer\, curator\, editor and publisher. He studied with Stan Brakhage at the Art Insitute of Chicago. He was a literary editor with City Lights Books\, New Directions\, and Black Sparrow Press. He was Director of Exhibitions and Publications at Gagosian Gallery from 1990-95. Along with Francesco Clemente co-published Hanuman Books from 1985-1995. He has contributed to two retrospective exhibition catalogues on the works of Francesco Clemente\, (Philadelphia Museum of Art\, 1990; Guggenheim Museum\, 1999). His 2002 exhibition The Heavenly Tree Grows Downward was the first comprehensive exhbition of the artworks of Harry Smith. He is executor of the estates of James Schuyler\, John Wieners\, and Rene Ricard. Presently he is organizing an exhibition and publication on the paintings of experimental filmmaker Jordan Belson\, for the Matthew Marks Gallery\, in May of 2019. He is Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail. \nRaymond Foye will discuss his role in editing the works of two important Masachusetts poets: John Wieners and Rene Ricard. He will examine their friendship with each other\, and his relationship with them and their work. \nPhoto of Raymond Foye with John Wieners by Allen Ginsberg in 1985. \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/raymond-foye/ 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/wienersfoye.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180815T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180815T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T174518 CREATED:20180526T153131Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180526T153131Z UID:8341-1534361400-1534366800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Ammon Hillman DESCRIPTION:Jewish temple worship and Christian communion are both the direct product and development of late Bronze Age (1200-1000 BCE) ritual orgy.  So-called Echidnaic-Ios rites sprang from the genius of a single pre-classical venom specialist\, a female immigrant to ancient Georgia\, who pioneered the use of her vagina as a device for bio-engineering and administering psychotropic substances to religious initiates.  Bronze Age acolytes\, ritually known as “dragons” and “wolves\,” consumed the seminal and mammary fluids of priestesses chronically exposed to reptilian toxins in rites meant to induce oracular vision.  These drugs maintained a precarious balance between the life and death of their human subjects; potent\, anally administered viper venoms were carefully balanced with “antidotes” taken directly from the breasts of specialist priestesses.  That is\, Bronze Age women researched and pioneered a means of using the biochemistry of the female body to create communal drugs.  In experimenting with and refining the use of snake venoms and their antidotes\, these priestesses set the stage for the development of western mystery religion while concomitantly pioneering pre-Hippocratic medicine and pharmacy.   Their symbol was the caduceus\, the twin-serpents-and-rod used by medical associations today.\n\nEchidnaic-Ios rites evolved under the cult influence of pre-Christian “Baptists” (c. 200 BCE) who celebrated a “Kingdom Mystery” and switched from a female biological source of antidotes to a male source by “milking” young boys chronically exposed to viper venoms. In this way\, pre-Christian Baptists\, who donned feminine clothing and drank from distinct penis-shaped glasses while celebrating “boys-only” rites in garden settings\, embraced the use of pre-pubertal male ejaculate as a means of mollifying the negative side effects of viper venoms.  These traditions help to explain why Jesus\, after taking of “the cup of God\,” was himself arrested in a public park late at night with a naked boy.\n\n\n\nDr. D.C. Ammon Hillman is author of The Chemical Muse: Drug Use and the Roots of Western Civilization (2008\, Macmillan)\, Original Sin: Ritual Child Rape and the Church (2012\, Ronin)\, and Hermaphrodites\, Gynomorphs and Jesus: Shemale Gods and the Roots of Christianity (2013\, Ronin)\, and has written articles on ancient pharmacology.  His first book was the inspiration for the History Channel’s The Stoned Ages\, and his research has been referred to by the London Times as “the last wild frontier of Classics.”  Dr. Hillman earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics (Latin/Greek) and an M.S. in Bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.\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/ammon-hillman/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ammonhillman.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180810 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180812 DTSTAMP:20260425T174518 CREATED:20180414T174705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180724T140847Z UID:8239-1533859200-1534031999@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Hettie Jones Memoir Workshop DESCRIPTION:Hettie Jones will be bringing her memoir workshop back to the GWC on August 10 and 11 for three hours each day.  The two-day session is $200. \nEnrollment is closed.  Thank you for your interest! \n\nFor more information on Hettie Jones visit\nwww.hettiejones.com/about\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/hettie-jones-memoir-workshop/ CATEGORIES:Classes,Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/HettieJonesclass.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180806T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180806T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T174518 CREATED:20180526T163017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180526T163017Z UID:8358-1533583800-1533589200@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-32/ 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:20180801T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180801T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T174518 CREATED:20180526T162815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180721T163050Z UID:8356-1533151800-1533157200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Ann Charters DESCRIPTION:Among other books\, Ann Charters has written & edited two books about & by Charles\nOlson in the 1960s\, compiled a bibliography of Jack Kerouac & wrote his first\nbiography (1973)\, and edited ten editions of the college textbook THE STORY AND ITS WRITER (1985-2019). \n  \nHer talk is  A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE: REVISITING THE 1950s\nWITH EDWARD J. MURROW. TV interviews with American celebrities & stars including\nJack & Jackie Kennedy\, Eleanor Roosevelt\, Frank Sinatra\, & Elizabeth Taylor. \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/ann-charters/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/anncharters.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180725T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180725T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T174518 CREATED:20180120T204200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180526T162554Z UID:8070-1532547000-1532552400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Erica Funkhouser and Soren Stockman DESCRIPTION:In addition to Post & Rail\, Erica Funkhouser has published four books of poetry with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and one with Alice James Books. [See Books] Included in Sure Shot (HM 1992) are three dramatic monologues in the voices of 19th century American women: Sacagawea\, Louisa May Alcott\, and Annie Oakley. The Oakley poem was adapted for the stage and produced by the Helicon Theatre Company in Los Angeles. Funkhouser’s work on Sacagawea led to her appearance in Ken Burns’ PBS documentary on the Lewis and Clark Expedition\, and her essay on Sacagawea appears in Lewis and Clark:Voyage of Discovery (Knopf\, 1997). “Singing in Dark Times\,” an essay on war poetry\, appeared in the Autumn 2005 issue of The Harvard Review\, and a story\, Snapper\, appeared in The Massachusetts Review in 2006. Funkhouser’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Ploughshares\, The Paris Review\, Poetry and other magazines; one of her poems has been sand-blasted into the wall of the Davis Square MBTA Station in Somerville\, MA. Educated at Vassar College (BA) and Stanford University (MA)\, Funkhouser was honored as a Literary Light by The Boston Public Library in 2002 and in 2007 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry. She lives in Essex\, MA and teaches at MIT. She is currently completing a novel that is set on the Crow Reservation in Montana at the end of the 19th century. \nSoren Stockman’s poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review\, the PEN Poetry Series\, Tin House Online\, The Literary Review\, Tupelo Quarterly\, The Louisville Review\, Prelude\, Southword Journal\, BOAAT\, St. Petersburg Review\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, Bellevue Literary Review\, The Paris-American\, and Narrative\, which awarded him First Place in the 2013 Narrative 30 Below Contest. The recipient of fellowships from New York University\, the Ucross Foundation\, the New York State Summer Writers Institute\, and the Lacawac Artist’s Residency\, he works currently at the NYU Creative Writing Program\, and as Curator for Springhouse Journal. \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/ricki-funkhouser-soren-stockman/ 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/2018/01/funkhauserstockman.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180720T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180720T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T174518 CREATED:20180526T162700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180706T153228Z UID:8354-1532115000-1532120400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Fish Tales: Our Town 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-our-town/ CATEGORIES:big event,Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/fishtalesflyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180718T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180718T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T174518 CREATED:20180526T162412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180703T145244Z UID:8351-1531942200-1531947600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:David Herd DESCRIPTION:  \nBuilding on his work with the Refugee Tales project (www.refugeetales.org)\, and taking the contemporary fact of detention as its starting point\, David Herd’s talk considers the interlocking attempts of Charles Olson\, Hannah Arendt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to arrive at new forms of political space. \n  \nDavid Herd’s collections of poetry include All Just (Carcanet 2012)\, Outwith (Bookthug 2012)\, Through (Carcanet\, 2016)\, and Walk Song (Equipage\, 2018) He has given readings and lectures in Australia\, Belgium\, Canada\, France\, Poland\, the USA and the UK\, and his poems\, essays and reviews have been widely published in magazines\, journals and newspapers. He is the author of John Ashbery and American Poetry\, Enthusiast! Essays on Modern American Literature\, and the editor of Contemporary Olson. His recent writings on the politics of human movement have appeared in Detention Unlocked\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Parallax\, PN Review and the TLS. He is a co-organiser of the project Refugee Tales and Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Kent. \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/david-herd/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/318img01-e1530629428949.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180711T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180711T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T174518 CREATED:20180403T153545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180706T155141Z UID:8220-1531337400-1531342800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:"Hamlet and Buddha: 'Words\, Words\, Words' and Silence" Mike Sperber DESCRIPTION:BUDDHA and HAMLET in BEDLAM: SYNOPSIS \nThe play is set at McLean Hospital where Hamlet is admitted\, misdiagnosed “psychotic with homicidal hallucinations\,” and prescribed Haldol\, an antipsychotic medication. \nHamlet requests a second opinion and Dr. Frank Faith diagnoses “parasomnia\,” discontinues Haldol\, and cures Hamlet through holistic psychiatry: body (fencing)\, mind (playwriting)\, and spirit (meditation). \nIn Hamlet’s BUDDHA and HAMLET in BEDLAM\, unlike in Shakespeare’s Hamlet\, Hamlet recovers\, marries Ophelia\, finds a vocation\, and none die. \n  \nDr. Michael Sperber is a psychiatric consultant at McLean Hospital; Medical Director of Comprehensive Health Services; the author of three books\, and many articles. \n“Buddha and Hamlet in Bedlam\,” the final chapter of his forthcoming POSTTRAUMATIC TRANSFORMATION\, and second play\, follows Emily Dickinson’s Bees\, Butterflies\, Breeze and Blindness. \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/hamlet-and-buddha-words-words-words-and-silence-mike-sperber/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/IMG_3447.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180709T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180709T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T174518 CREATED:20180526T145753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180630T130231Z UID:8338-1531164600-1531170000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:William Bernhardt DESCRIPTION:Noted author  \nWilliam Bernhardt  \nstops by the GWC for a conversation about writing\nMonday\, July 9th\, 7:30 PM\n \nWilliam Bernhardt is an American thriller/mystery/suspense fiction author best known for his “Ben Kincaid” series of books.\n\nWith sales of over 10 million books\, William Bernhardt is one of the most popular writing instructors in the nation\, regularly appearing in Hawaii\, San Francisco\, New York\, and other venues across the country. He has twice won the Oklahoma Book Award and in 1998 he received the Southern Writers Guild’s Gold Medal Award. In 2000\, he was honored with the H. Louise Cobb Distinguished Author Award\, which is given “in recognition of an outstanding body of work that has profoundly influenced the way in which we understand ourselves and American society at large.” He is the founder the Red Sneaker Writing Center which provides practical information to writers and aspiring writers through seminars\, books\, and a free monthly newsletter.\n\nWilliam has been conducting a 5 -day writing seminar on the North Shore and has agreed to stop by the Gloucester Writers Center on Monday Night to share his work and answer your questions about writing. . Writer and friend of the GWC Cassy Pickard\, who is hosting William  says “One of the special qualities of Bill’s is that it doesn’t matter the level of one’s work; all are welcomed and appreciated”.\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/william-bernhardt/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180705T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180705T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T174518 CREATED:20180626T140451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180626T141548Z UID:8406-1530815400-1530820800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Sigrid Olsen: My Life Redesigned DESCRIPTION:In this visually rich memoir\, Sigrid Olsen traces her journey from art student entrepreneur to nationally known fashion designer\, and full circle back to her roots as an artist and spiritual seeker. \nAfter multiple major upheavals that left her gasping for air\, Sigrid did what any burned-out\, creatively compulsive\, former-hippie\, fashion executive would do…she packed up a bikini and some art supplies and went to a beach on the Eastern shore of Tulum\, Mexico. There she reconnected with a long dormant yoga practice and lost herself in meditation until the layers of stress peeled away and she could breathe again. This book tells her story in living color\, featuring her original artwork and offers inspiration for anyone seeking to find happiness\, balance and beauty in the world. \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/sigrid-olsen-my-life-redesigned/ LOCATION:Cultural Center at Rocky Neck\, 6 Wonson Street\, Gloucester\, United States CATEGORIES:big event,Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180702T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180702T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T174518 CREATED:20180616T212357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180616T212357Z UID:8397-1530559800-1530565200@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-34/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/openmicgeneral.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR