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:20160313T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20161106T050000 END:STANDARD 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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171017T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171017T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T075323 CREATED:20170829T155024Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171001T024945Z UID:7840-1508263200-1508274000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Writing a Ten-Minute Play - 13th Workshop DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays – 6:00 – 9:00 pm \n  \nThe 10-minute play format has all the elements of drama – plot\, characters\, dialogue and conflict. Learn how to put those elements into a short piece written specifically for the stage\, for actors and for an audience. Participants will create a 10-minute play for a Festival to be performed live with actors & audience. Not just for theatre people\, but for all writers who want to work on dialogue. \nInstructor: M. Lynda Robinson\, mlyndarob@gmail.com \nGloucester Writers Center – 4 Sessions: \nNew Dates! \nOctober 17\, 24\, 31 and November 7 \nFee: $125 \n  \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/writing-ten-minute-play/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Classes END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171016T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171016T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T075323 CREATED:20170830T201031Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170830T201057Z UID:7849-1508180400-1508187600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Jungian Study Group DESCRIPTION:Jungian Study Group \nMonthly Meeting on Mondays -7:00 – 9:00 pm \n  \nCarl Jung spent his lifetime exploring the relationship of our individual existence to the Grand Cosmology of the world around us. He addressed simple questions which are still being asked today. What is our relationship to ourselves\, to others and to the world of nature around us? As much as Jung was an academic\, his journey was very personal as well. We are going to explore Jung’s Map of Soul by Murray Stein as a way to find “tangible spiritual tools” to add more depth and understanding\, and to celebrate our own creative lives. \nFacilitator – Patricia Vesey-McGrew \nGloucester Writers Center – Introductory Overview – September25th \nOngoing Study begins on October 16th \nFor details contact: David Calvo at: david@calvostudio.com  Tel. 978-283-0231 \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/jungian-study-group/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Classes END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171013T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171013T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T075323 CREATED:20170924T131837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170928T152150Z UID:7897-1507923000-1507928400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Joel Dinerstein DESCRIPTION:Joel Dinerstein is the author of several works on the history of cool\, including The Origins of Cool in Postwar America (University of Chicago\, May 2017)\, Coach: A Study of New York Cool (Rizzoli 2016)\, and American Cool (2014). He was the co-curator of American Cool (2014)\, an acclaimed photography and cultural history exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian based on his own research and theories. He is also the author of an award-winning cultural history of jazz and industrialization\, Swinging the Machine: Modernity\, Technology\, and African-American Culture (2003)\, as well as several articles on American identity and popular culture (e.g.\, film noir\, jazz\, literature\, technology\, sports\, rock-and-roll).  He has served as a consultant for popular music and jazz for Putumayo Records\, HBO’s Boardwalk Empire\, and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). He has received the Student Body Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and teaches courses at the intersection of modernism\, popular culture\, African-American Studies\, and contemporary literature.  He was a jazz DJ for seven years on WWOZ-FM in New Orleans and also teaches courses on blues\, jazz\, and New Orleans musical culture. He has written several insider articles about New Orleans second-line culture as a member of the Prince of Wales club. He has a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Texas (Austin) and was educated exclusively at public schools. \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/joel-dinerstein/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/joeldinerstein.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171004T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171004T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T075323 CREATED:20170911T124050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170911T124337Z UID:7881-1507145400-1507150800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Dorothy Nelson and Preston Hood: Writing Through DESCRIPTION:Writing Through\n\nPreston Hood and Dorothy Shubow Nelson will read \nfrom their recent poems in response to each other’s work\,  \nand share a few of Vincent Ferrini’s and Charles Olson’s poems as well. \nOpen mic and refreshments afterwards. \n  \nDorothy Shubow Nelson’s poems have appeared in Polis IV\, 2014; Human Architecture VII\, 2009; Consequence Vol. I\, 2009; Atelier\, Café Review\, North Shore North\, Rhythm Music Magazine\, Sojourner\, and various community newspapers. Her review of Vietnam Veteran\, Bruce Weigl’s collection\, The Abundance of Nothing\, was published in Consequence Magazine\, Vol. V\, 2013. Formerly a Senior Lecturer in English at UMass/Boston she has published The Dream of the Sea\, Early Poems\, 2008 and a chapbook\, Something Near. 2004. She is on the Advisory Board of the Gloucester Writers Center and facilitates a Veterans Writing Workshop in Gloucester Massachusetts. \n  \nPreston H. Hood III grew up in Swansea Massachusetts and lived most of his life in Maine. He is a former Navy SEAL who served in Vietnam (1970). He earned a Bachelor of Arts\, English\, Magna cum Maude\, University of Massachusetts Boston\, a Bachelor Science\, University of Southern Maine\, and a Master of Education\, University of Maine\, Orono. \nPreston published a CD\, Snake Medicine\, (2002) and is the author of two books of poetry: A Chill I Understand (2006)\, which was a (2007) Maine Literary Award Finalist\, Poetry and The Hallelujah of Listening (2011) winner of the (2012) Maine Literary Award in Poetry. After attending the William Joiner Institute for the Study of War and Social Consequences for nine years\, he co-edited with Jacqueline Murray Loring and Gary Rafferty the Summer Home Review I (2002)\, and Summer Home Review 2 (2005). Through the Cape Cod Writers Center\, he was interviewed with John McHugh\, Secretary of Heinrich Böll Association\, County Mayo\, Ireland for Books of the World Television Program (2006). \nWith Jacqueline M. Loring\, he co-presented an overview of the Sixties Beat Poetry for The Wrinkle in Time Summer of Love (1967) Conference at Osher Life Long Learning Institute at the University of Southern Maine. At the same conference\, he was participant in the panel discussion of Civil Rights issues\, and reasons why we were in Vietnam. In 2005\, he was awarded a Residency at Heinrich Böll Cottage through the Heinrich Böll Association on Achill Island to complete his manuscript of his first book\, A Chill I Understand (2006). \nPreston is widely published nationally and internationally in numerous journals and anthologies including The Café Review\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review Nimrod International Journal\, Rattle\, and Prairie Schooner. His poem\, Cullen Four Days Old\, Waking was selected by Maine Poet Laureate for Take Heart Anthology I (2012). \nCurrently\, Preston is a retired teacher and administrator\, stone mason and carpenter\, who has taught Therapeutic Creative Writing at Osher Life Long Learning Institute at the University of Southern Maine\, and at Holyoke Community College in Holyoke MA for Veterans and Families. He lives in Colrain MA on 2.8 acres on the East Branch of the North River\, is writing his memoir\, and walks\, hikes\, bikes\, and kayaks. \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/dorothy-nelson-preston-hood-writing/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/dorothyandpreston.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20171002T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20171002T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T075323 CREATED:20171001T142811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171001T142811Z UID:7903-1506972600-1506978000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Open Mic DESCRIPTION:Each reader gets five minutes.  Bring your words.  Get heard! \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/open-mic-24/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170927T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170927T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T075323 CREATED:20170902T224904Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170902T224926Z UID:7872-1506538800-1506546000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:College Essay Program Training Night DESCRIPTION:College Essay Program Training Night\n\nEvery 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. \n \nTraining for this year’s college essay season will be on Wednesday\, September 27th 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/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170925T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170925T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T075323 CREATED:20170830T200911Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170924T023130Z UID:7847-1506366000-1506373200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Jungian Study Group Introductory Overview DESCRIPTION:  \nMonthly Meeting on Mondays -7:00 – 9:00 pm \n  \nCarl Jung spent his lifetime exploring the relationship of our individual existence to the Grand Cosmology of the world around us. He addressed simple questions which are still being asked today. What is our relationship to ourselves\, to others and to the world of nature around us? As much as Jung was an academic \,his journey was very personal as well. We are going to explore Jung’s Map of Soul by Murray Stein as a way to find “tangible spiritual tools” to add more depth and understanding\, and to celebrate our own creative lives. \nFacilitator – Patricia Vesey-McGrew \nGloucester Writers Center – Introductory Overview – September25th \nOngoing Study begins on October 16th \nFor details contact: David Calvo at: david@calvostudio.com  Tel. 978-283-0231 \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/jungian-study-group-introductory-overview/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Classes END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170921T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170921T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T075323 CREATED:20170724T181731Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170915T182321Z UID:7765-1506022200-1506027600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Kate Tarlow Morgan “Memoirs of Places & Phrases” DATE CHANGED DESCRIPTION:  \n “Memoirs of Places & Phrases” with Kate Tarlow Morgan \nKate Tarlow Morgan is a choreographer\, NEST (New England States Touring) Artist\, and grateful artist-in-residence at Gloucester Writers Center. She 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 natural movement\, Kate teaches in local area schools and studios. Her book of essays and stories\, Circles & Boundaries\, was published in the same year that she co-edited Movement and Experience: A Body-Mind Centering Anthology\, 2011. \n  \nBorn and raised in New York City\, Kate worked as a documentary historian and urban archaeologist from 1979-1997\, during which she also worked as movement therapist in the Hasidic Satmar community in Brooklyn and with infants suffering from substance abuse in East Harlem. As a performer\, Kate has presented her work in site-based venues as well as theatrical spaces. She is grants recipient of Arts International\, Tides Research Grants\, and Council for Basic Education. \n  \nSignificantly\, in the last 6 years\, Kate has premiered several of her performance projects and events under the auspices of Gloucester Writers Center—including Bluesuit (2010); Fishglove (2011); The Proprioception Panel with Alcalay\, Franco\, Peters\, Slifer-Swift\, and Wagner (2012); Invisible Stories (2013) in collaboration with Sarah Slifer Swift; An Evening with Monsieur Teste (2014) with Barzaghi and Swift; and finally\, A Letter from a Friend (2016) with Kai Krienke and a puppet. \n  \nRecently\, Kate has been practicing silk-reeling with QiGong Master\, Thomas Garbarino; building a stairway to her attic holding all of the family papers; and working on a “memoir of phrases” inspired by Hettie Jones’ workshop at GWC this past July. \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/kate-tarlow-morgan-6/ 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/2017/07/KTM-Spain-Mt..jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170915T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170915T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T075323 CREATED:20170725T141213Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170914T135804Z UID:7776-1505503800-1505509200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Fishtales: Birth DESCRIPTION:FISH TALES\nWith Maureen Aylward \nBirth\nIt’s all about creation.\nFriday\, September 15th   7:30\nCultural Center at Rocky Neck\n6 Wonson Street East Gloucester \n$10 Donation – no one turned away due to lack of funds \nIn partnership with the North Shore Postpartum Task Force \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/fishtales-birth/ 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/2017/07/Botticelli-Birth-of-Venus.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170913T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170913T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T075323 CREATED:20170725T151411Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170803T153016Z UID:7789-1505331000-1505336400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Ben Berman and Joshua Scott-Fishburn DESCRIPTION:Ben Berman’s first book\, Strange Borderlands\, won the 2014 Peace Corps Award for Best Book of Poetry and was a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Awards. His second collection\, Figuring in the Figure\, is recently out from Able Muse Press.  He has received awards from the New England Poetry Club and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and Somerville Arts Council. He is the Poetry Editor at Solstice Literary Magazine and teaches in the Boston area\, where he lives with his wife and daughters. \n\n\nJoshua Scott-Fishburn is a graduate of the Seattle Pacific MFA program\, and has taught Creative Writing and Humanities for 9 years.  He is an annual participant in the New England Young Writer’s Conference in Breadloaf\, Vermont\, teaches a craft-based and workshop-oriented personal essay course every summer\, and enjoys writing each week with the Gloucester-based Ward 3 writer’s group.  In June he included a chapbook of poems\, Weather Report\, in the show “Resist: The Art of Protest\,” curated by Amanda Cook and Stevens Brosnihan.  His work has appeared in Le Temps Retrouvé\, the journal of Waring School.  Joshua is on the board of the Gloucester Writer’s Center.  He lives in Gloucester\, MA\, with three amazing young children and Rosemary Scott-Fishburn\, a fantastic visual artist and photographer. \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/ben-berman/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/bermanscottfishburn.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170911T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170911T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T075323 CREATED:20170725T145659Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170725T150409Z UID:7787-1505158200-1505163600@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-23/ 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:20170909T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170909T140000 DTSTAMP:20260426T075323 CREATED:20170724T201946Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170724T210711Z UID:7773-1504962000-1504965600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Michael Casey and Paul Marion DESCRIPTION:  \nThe publication of Michael Casey‘s latest book\, There It Is: New & Selected Poems\,\nhas been called “an event to celebrate” (Edward Field). The winner of the 1972 Yale\nYounger Poets Prize for his stunning collection of Vietnam War poems titled\nObscenities\, Casey is the author of several collections\, including Millrat and Check\nPoints. His poems have appeared in the New York Times\, The Nation\, Rolling Stone\,\nand many other journals. He lives in Andover\, Mass. \n  \nPaul Marion is the author of several collections of poetry\, including his lyrical\nAmericana address\, the recent Union River: Poems and Sketches\, as well as the editor\nof Jack Kerouac’s early writings\, Atop an Underwood. His history book Mill Power\n(2014) tells the story of how Lowell\, Mass.\, was named a national park to\ncommemorate the start of the American Industrial Revolution. His work has appeared\nin The Massachusetts Review\, Slate\, Yankee\, and other magazines and anthologies. He\nlives in Lowell\, Mass. \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/michael-casey-paul-marion/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/MarionCasey.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170907T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170907T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T075323 CREATED:20170725T145307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170812T155517Z UID:7785-1504812600-1504818000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Jonathan Bayliss Birthday Bash and Gilgamesh Play Reading DESCRIPTION:To celebrate the September 7\, 1926 birth of Jonathan Bayliss\, the playwright and novelist who died in 2009 here in the city of his fiction\, Cape Ann residents will read portions of his play The Acts of Gilgamesh. The play is loosely based on the ancient Gilgamesh epic\, takes place in Sumer (now southern Iraq)\, and sadly may bring to mind parallels to today’s world. \n  \nReaders include David Adams\, Peter Anastas\, Saira Austin\, Doug Guidry\, Paul McGeary\, Jay McLauchlan\, Susan Oleksiw\, Martin Ray\, Ann Rhinelander\, and Ken Riaf. \n  \nWine and birthday cake will follow the reading. All are welcome. \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/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/gilgamesh.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170906T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170906T130000 DTSTAMP:20260426T075323 CREATED:20170715T202524Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170813T161252Z UID:7743-1504699200-1504702800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Reading of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights DESCRIPTION:Worldwide Reading of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 6 September 2017\nClick here for a list of readings around the world. \nDetails to follow. \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/reading-universal-declaration-human-rights/ LOCATION:Gloucester City Hall\, Dale Avenue\, Gloucester\, MA\, 01930\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170901T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170901T170000 DTSTAMP:20260426T075323 CREATED:20170812T155658Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170812T155658Z UID:7821-1504252800-1504285200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:New Classes posted September 1st. 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/new-classes-posted-september-1st/ CATEGORIES:Classes END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170823T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170823T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T075323 CREATED:20170724T181303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170815T144435Z UID:7763-1503516600-1503522000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Charles Guiliano and Geoffrey Movius DESCRIPTION:Charles Giuliano returns to Cape Ann to read from his fourth and newest  book Gloucester Poems: The Nugents of Rockport. Giuliano has a long family history in Gloucester and he comes back to share his excavations and observations in this new volume. \nGeoffrey Movius first came to Cape Ann in the summer of 1944\, and has owned a home here since 1996. His work has appeared in magazines and anthologies in this country and in England. TRANSIT Selected Poems 1960-2010\, was published by Pressed Wafer in 2012. \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-guiliano-geoffrey-movius/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170816T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170816T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T075323 CREATED:20170411T155526Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170803T150524Z UID:7615-1502911800-1502917200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Cathy Strisik\, Ani Gjika and Pui Ying Wong DESCRIPTION:Cathy Strisik is author of two poetry collections\, The Mistress (3: A Taos Press\, 2016)\, recently nominated for the New Mexico/Arizona Book award\, and Thousand-Cricket Song (2010\, 2nd edition\, 2016 Plain View Press)\, and manuscript-in-progress\, Pitchfork\, as well as co-founder and editor of the online journal\, Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art (www.taosjournalofpoetry.com). Strisik\, who grew up in Rockport\, has been active in the Taos\, N.M. poetry community for over 34 years. Some poems appear in Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion\, Drunken Boat\, Connotation Press: An Online Artifact\, & Naugatuck River Review. Strisik’s been nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, and has received honors & prizes from CutThroat\, Peregrine\, and Comstock Review. \nShe will read primarily from The Mistress\, the mistress being the personification of Parkinson’s Disease. \n  \nPui Ying Wong was born in Hong Kong. She is the author of two full-length books of poetry: An Emigrant’s Winter (Glass Lyre Press\, 2016) and Yellow Plum Season (New York Quarterly Books\, 2010)—along with two chapbooks. She has poems published and forthcoming in Prairie Schooner\, Ploughshares\, Atlanta Review\, The Southampton Review\, Plume Poetry Journal\, The New York Times\, Valparaiso Poetry Review\, among others. She is a book reviewer for Cervena Barva Press in Somerville\, MA. She lives in Cambridge\, MA with her husband\, the poet Tim Suermondt. \nShe will read from her book An Emigrant’s Winter\, which was published last September\, and a few newer poems. \n  \nAni Gjika is an Albanian-American poet\, literary translator\, and author of Bread on Running Waters (Fenway Press\, 2013). She is the recipient of a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship and a 2016 NEA fellowship for her translation of Luljeta Lleshanaku’s poetry collection\, Negative Space\, forthcoming from New Directions in 2018. \nShe will be reading from “Bread on Running Waters” and\, as August is Women in Translation month\, Gjika will also read a few translations from “Negative Space.” \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/cathy-strisik-ani-gjika-pui-ying-wong/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/strisik.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170808T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170808T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T075323 CREATED:20170801T144541Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170801T144541Z UID:7806-1502220600-1502226000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Lee Van Der Voo. Fish Market: Inside the Big Money Battle for the Ocean & Your Dinner Plate. DESCRIPTION:  \nAboard fishing vessels from Alaska to Maine\, inside restaurants of top chefs\, and from the halls of Congress\, in The Fish Market\, journalist Lee van der Voo tells the story of the people and places left behind in the era of ocean privatization―a trend that now controls more than half of American seafood. Following seafood money from U.S. docks to Wall Street\, she explains the methods that investors\, equity firms\, and seafood landlords have used to capture the upside of the sustainable seafood movement\, and why many people believe in them. She also goes behind the scenes of the Slow Fish movement―among holdouts against privatization of the sea― to show why they argue consumers don’t have to buy sustainability from Wall Street\, or choose between the environment and their fisherman. \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/lee-van-der-voo-fish-market-inside-big-money-battle-ocean-dinner-plate-2/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/fishmarket.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170807T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170807T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T075323 CREATED:20170516T154100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170516T154100Z UID:7684-1502134200-1502139600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Open Mic DESCRIPTION:Each reader gets five minutes.  Sign up at the door.  Bring your words.  Get heard! \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/open-mic-22/ 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:20170726T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170726T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T075323 CREATED:20170516T151858Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170516T152121Z UID:7675-1501097400-1501102800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Stephanie Cassatly DESCRIPTION:When Stephanie Cassatly was 18 years old\, her mother was shot and killed in a convenience store robbery in New Orleans\, changing every preconceived notion she had about the world and what it meant to feel safe.  Twenty years later\, she found her mother’s killer and forgave him\, just before he died in the notorious Angola State Penitentiary.  It was then that she realized that she had been as much of a prisoner as he was. \nWith a searing honesty that will make readers’ hearts both ache and sing\, Notice of Release chronicles her traumatic and at times dangerous childhood as an expatriate in South America\, her shift from grieving college student to high powered ad-executive\, and how she reconciled her deep connection to her own children\, with her fear of being taken away prematurely from them.  In this memoir\, she proves that shedding the weight of the past can unlock a brave and beautiful future\, and comes to see that finding and forgiving her mother’s killer is as much a journey of finding herself. \n  \nStephanie Cassatly earned her undergraduate degree in Business from Emory University and her MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has been published in literary journals and anthologies and has won awards and notable mentions. She speaks on the topic of forgiveness\, is a contributor to The Forgiveness Project and teaches writing at Palm Beach Atlantic University. She resides with her husband in Florida and has two grown daughters. \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/stephanie-cassatly/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/IMG_8622_FINAL.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170722 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170724 DTSTAMP:20260426T075323 CREATED:20170218T235834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170423T021333Z UID:7494-1500681600-1500854399@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Hettie Jones: Weekend Memoir Workshop DESCRIPTION:Students in this workshop will begin to create a personal memoir in the context of its own time and place. Guided by exercises and examples from published work\, each three-hour session will offer time for both writing and oral critique. \nBest known for How I Became Hettie Jones\, her memoir of the “beat scene” of the fifties and sixties\, Hettie Jones is the author of 23 books for children and adults\, including the award-winning Big Star Fallin’ Mama (Five Women in Black Music) and Drive\, the first of her three poetry collections\, which won the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber Award. In addition to her own work\, Jones has also written No Woman No Cry for Rita Marley\, Grace the Table for the chef Alexander Smalls\, and co-authored From Midnight to Dawn\, the Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad. Her short fiction has appeared in various literary journals such as Ploughshares and Fence\, and she has published reviews\, articles\, and stories in The Washington Post and The Village Voice among others.\nSince 1979 Jones has taught writing at various universities\, and is now on the faculties of the New School’s Graduate Writing Program and the 92nd St. Y Poetry Center. During the Spring semester of 2014 she lectured as the Durst Distinguished Professor at the State University in Purchase\, New York. Jones is the former Chair of the PEN Prison Writing Committee\, and from 1989-2002 ran a writing workshop at the New York State Correctional Facility for Women at Bedford Hills\, from which she published a nationally distributed collection\, Aliens At The Border. From 1994-1996 she was a member of the Literature Panel of the New York State Council on the Arts\, subsequently served two terms on the Board of Directors of Cave Canem\, and currently serves on PEN’s Advisory Council. Jones was a NYFA Fellow in Nonfiction Literature in 2009\, and a 2013-14 recipient of a Civic Engagement Grant from the New School for her work with Manhattan’s Lower East Side Girls Club\, which she is currently continuing with a grant from Poets & Writers. Hettie Jones has lived in Manhattan’s East Village for fifty years. Love H\, a selection from her 40-year correspondence with the sculptor Helene Dorn\, will appear in 2016 from Duke University Press. She is presently completing that book as well as Full Tilt\, new and selected poems\, and In Care of Worth Auto Parts\, a collection of linked short fiction. \nSaturday\, July 22 1-4\n\nSunday\, July 23 Noon-3:30\nRegister Here: \n\n\n\n\nPhoto Credit: Colleen MacKay \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-weekend-memoir-workshop/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Classes,Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/HettieJones_-ColleenMcKay.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170719T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170719T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T075323 CREATED:20170411T150349Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170522T150626Z UID:7605-1500492600-1500498000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Rick Berlin DESCRIPTION:The Paragraphs is a memoir of a life in music\, made up of vignettes penned as exercises in songwriting by Boston music icon Rick Berlin. \nCreated from fragments used to write songs\, this memoir recalls a life of music\, a relationship with the animal world\, and a two-day meth-fueled road trip. Berlin\, a queer Boston music legend formerly the front-man of Orchestra Luna\, Berlin Airlift\, Rick Berlin: The Movie\, and The Shelley Winters Project\, and currently of The Nickel & Dime Band\, is known for his zany lyrics and unflinching wit. Exploring boyhood\, family relationships\, and the dynamic social workings of Boston through the decades\, Rick Berlin’s work is “uncategorizable…part punk\, part musical theater\, part sentimental sap\, part wordplay master. Gold” (Amanda Palmer). \n“Rick Berlin’s writing is as raw\, luminous\, open-hearted\, profane\, musical\, magical as the man himself. Put on your seat belts.” —Beth Harrington (documentary filmmaker\, The Winding Stream\, member of The Modern Lovers) \n“I love reading Berlin’s words. All the pretty young boys and girls got nothing on Rick. He can light up the darkest places.” —Carmelita (Bay State Rock\, WAAF) \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/rick-berlin/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/rickberlin2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170712T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170712T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T075323 CREATED:20170423T010832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170703T125637Z UID:7627-1499887800-1499893200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Olivia Kate Cerrone: The Hunger Saint DESCRIPTION:THE HUNGER SAINT is a story of hope and survival set in post-WWII Italy. Hailed by Kirkus as “a well- crafted and affecting literary tale\,” this historical novella follows the journey of Ntoni\, a twelve-year-old boy forced to labor in Sicily’s sulfur mines to support his family after his father’s untimely death. Faced with life-threatening working conditions\, Ntoni must choose between escaping the mines and abandoning his family. As a series of unforeseen events soon complicate his plans\, Ntoni realizes that all is not what it seems and to trust anyone might prove to be as fatal as being trapped inside of a cave-in. The Hunger Saint draws from years of historical research and was informed by the oral histories of former miners still living in Sicily today. \nThe book has received some some great press so far\, which I am happy to share with you. The reviews so far have been very favorable\, especially this one from Kirkus Reviews\, which described the book as “a well-crafted and affecting literary tale.” I’ve included more reviews in this email. The Brooklyn Rail also interviewed me about the book along with the San Francisco Book Review. \n  \nPraise for The Hunger Saint: \n“Cerrone tells her story in a deliberative prose…perfectly evoking both the setting and time period of this piece of historical fiction. The tale brings to mind American literary realism of the early 20th century—Upton Sinclair\, Jack London—as well as the books of midcentury Sicilian writers like Leonardo Sciascia. Cerrone uses Ntoni’s experiences to shed light on the little-remembered soccorso morto practice\, which held thousands of children in virtual slavery…A well-crafted and affecting literary tale.” \nKirkus Reviews \n“…a powerful survey that brings to life and personalizes the plight of child laborers and their experiences\, highly recommended for any who enjoy historical novels in general and\, particularly\, those who look for cultural insights and social messages in fiction readings.” \nThe Midwest Review \n“Powerful writing…This is a story that is very moving\, and…certainly memorable.” \nSan Francisco Book Review \n“The Hunger Saint is an exquisitely written\, vivid\, and engaging novella…Cerrone’s story prizes resilience and the human spirit.” \nThe American \n“…a good read for anyone interested in Sicilian history…the plight of the working class. The carusi and the sulfur mines are a part of history that I was unaware of\, and if that’s the case for you\, then I would deeply recommend this novella.” \nSeattle Book Review \n5-Star Review \n“A gritty novella that pulses with rhythm\, texture\, and a story that locks the reader to its pages\, The Hunger Saint is the riveting tale of young Ntoni\, who is forced to labor in Sicily’s sulfur mines to support his family. Few books treat the subject of manual labor with such fluid realism and descriptive beauty. The Hunger Saint marks the debut of a distinctive and talented new voice in North American fiction.” \n–Tony Ardizzone\, author of The Whale Chaser \n“Olivia Kate Cerrone’s The Hunger Saint is a masterful novella . . . In understated but beautiful language\, Cerrone first draws our attention by event then keeps it through unswerving allegiance to felt-life detail and sure-handed revelation. It’s a book not to be missed.” \n–Rusty Barnes\, author of Breaking it Down and Reckoning \n“The grind and terror of Sicilian mining [is] brought to such electric life by Olivia Kate Cerrone . . . all rendered in minutia that scrapes the skin and catches in the throat.” \n–John Domini\, author of Movieola! and A Tomb on the Periphery \n“. . . Cerrone’s exacting knowledge of the post-war Sicilian sulfur mines is matched only by the elegance of her prose and the depth of her compassion. Ntoni’s journey touched my heart.” \n–Lindsay Hatton\, author of Monterey Bay \n“A remarkable rendering of one young man’s life doing the barbarous\, slave-like work in the sulfur mines of Sicily . . . Cerrone’s work is nothing short of a triumph of Sicilian history\, a testament to a little-known feature of early twentieth-century Sicilian society and a sobering look at the cruel sacrifices of so many. . .” \n–Michelle Messina Reale\, author of Birds of Sicily \n“The Hunger Saint is a wonderful tale of escape and redemption. . . Cerrone’s haunting vision is both timely and necessary.” \n–Frederick Reiken\, author of Day for Night and The Lost Legends of New Jersey \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/olivia-kate-cerrone-hunger-saint/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/hungersaint.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170710T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170710T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T075323 CREATED:20170516T153930Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170611T024306Z UID:7682-1499715000-1499720400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Open Mic SCHEDULE CHANGE DESCRIPTION:Each reader gets five minutes.  Sign up at the door.  Bring your words.  Get heard! \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/open-mic-21/ 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:20170701T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170701T200000 DTSTAMP:20260426T075323 CREATED:20170624T162643Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170629T152516Z UID:7723-1498928400-1498939200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:DIG IN! DESCRIPTION:As part of the RESIST exhibition at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck\nCape Ann Farmers Market presents:\nDig In: A Conversation about the Politics of Food\nSaturday July 1st 5:00 – 8:00\nCooking Demos Interactive Activities\nPostcard Writing Vendors\n and\nA Panel Discussion about Food Activism\nco-sponsored by the Gloucester Writers Center\n6:00 pm\n Featuring\nWill Allen – Organic farmer and author\nNiaz Dorry – Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance\nCarolyn Mugar – Farm Aid\n For more information cal l 978.290.2717\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/dig-in/ 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/2017/06/CAFM_1stPg-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170628T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170628T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T075323 CREATED:20170516T145255Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170516T150805Z UID:7670-1498678200-1498683600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Richard Deming and Nancy Kuhl DESCRIPTION:Richard Deming will read from his latest collection of poems\, Day for Night; the work takes its title from the cinematic term for shooting night scenes during the day. Deming’s complex lyricism explores the ways that art\, film\, music\, and literature creates possibilities for human encounter and interaction even as it considers the impossibilities of ever truly knowing others or ourselves.  Deming is an art critic as well as a poet; he studies and writes about the philosophy of literature and visual culture. \nNancy Kuhl will from a recent chapbook about bird watching—and listening—called The Birds of the Year and from her recent full-length collection of poems\, Pine to Sound. In this work\, the mythic figure of Echo appears and recurs literally and sonically—punished for her incessant talking with the loss of all speech save her ability to repeat the last words she hears\, Echo here represents something of the powerful ways dialogue is always shot through with repetitions and echoes that both assert and occlude the emotional content of our speech.  \nRichard Deming’s collection of poems\, Let’s Not Call It Consequence (Shearsman\, 2008)\, received the 2009 Norma Farber First  Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. His new book of poems\,  Day for Night\, appeared last year.  Winner of the Berlin Prize in 2012\, he teaches at Yale University where he is the Director of Creative Writing. \nNancy Kuhl is the author of Pine to Sound\, Suspend\, and The Wife of the Left Hand and chapbooks including Little Winter Theater\, The Nocturnal Factory\, and In the Arbor.  She is Curator of Poetry of the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. http://www.phylumpress.com/kuhl/ \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/richard-deming-nancy-kuhl/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings,Writer in Residence ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/marsland1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170623T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170623T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T075323 CREATED:20170522T151335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170522T151335Z UID:7688-1498246200-1498251600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Fish Tales: I Protest. DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with RESIST: The Art of Protest. \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-protest/ LOCATION:Cultural Center at Rocky Neck\, 6 Wonson Street\, Gloucester\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170618T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170618T170000 DTSTAMP:20260426T075323 CREATED:20170522T151957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170610T153548Z UID:7692-1497805200-1497805200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:We Resist: A Reading. DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with RESIST: The Art of Protest. \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/we-resist-a-reading/ LOCATION:Cultural Center at Rocky Neck\, 6 Wonson Street\, Gloucester\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170607T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170607T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T075323 CREATED:20170411T152724Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170528T021911Z UID:7613-1496863800-1496869200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Richard Grossinger and Lindy Hough DESCRIPTION:A native of New York City\, Richard Grossinger attended Amherst College and the University of Michigan\, receiving a BA in English (1966) and a PhD in anthropology (1975). He wrote his doctoral thesis on his fieldwork with fishermen in Eastern Maine\, after which he taught fortwo years at the University of Maine at Portland-Gorham and five years at Goddard College in Vermont. With his wife\, Lindy Hough\, he is cofounding publisher of North Atlantic Books and its forerunner\, the journal Io. His works include early books of experimental prose; a series of titles on holistic medicine\, cosmology\, and embryology; two memoirs; and recent books re-exploring these themes\, related topics\, and aspects of contemporary politics and pop culture. \nAfter living in Berkeley\, California\, from 1976 for thirty-eight years\, Grossinger and Hough moved back to Portland\, Maine\, in 2014. They have also lived part-time in Manset\, Maine\, since 2001. Their children are Robin Grossinger\, a historical geographer at San Francisco Estuary Institute\, and Miranda July\, a writer\, film director\, and conceptual artist. \nFor more information and texts\, see www.richardgrossinger.com. \nI do not generally believe in reading from published prose\, so I will read from two unpublished books\, Episodes in Disguise of a Marriage and Bottoming Out The Universe: Karma\, Reincarnation\, and Personal Identity. Episodes is the second volume of my nonfiction literary trilogy. \n  \nEpisodes in Disguise of a Marriage \nThe three books in this trilogy (New Moon: A Coming-of-Age Tale\, Episodes\, and Out of Babylon) fall somewhere between memoirs and novels. My key decisions are novelistic but\, like memoirs\, they are true\, or meant to be\, though not always factual. I didn’t make up characters or events\, but I omitted things that a memoir would include and occasionally combined two or more people or events and shifted a timeline to serve the narrative arc. \nThe topic of this book is excruciating to the point of borderline unwritable. There is no comfortable language in our time for sex and sexual fantasy or\, for that matter\, the paradoxes of personal identity\, intimacy\, and relationship. For me\, being a writer bears responsibility to find language for the most challenging and elusive aspects of human existence. This agenda is existential and non-negotiable and speaks to all my work but particularly the books in this trilogy. In any other sense Episodes would best have gone unwritten. \n  \nBottoming Out the Universe: \nBottoming Out is the draft of my last volume in a series that goes Planet Medicine; The Night Sky: Soul and Cosmos; Embryogenesis: Species Gender and Identity; Embryos\, Galaxies\, and Sentient Beings: How the Universe Makes Life; and Dark Pool of Light: Reality and Consciousness (three volumes separately titled). I am working on the issue of the cosmic field\, what it is and how it got here. You can look at a working draft: https://www.richardgrossinger.com/2016/05/bottoming-out-the-universe-karma-reincarnation-and-personal-identity/. \n\n\n\nLindy Hough is the author of five books of poetry and three anthologies\, of which the most recent are Wild Horses\, Wild Dreams: New and Selected Poems 1971-2010 and the Io Anthology: Literature\, Interviews\, and Art from the Seminal Interdisciplinary Journal 1965-1993. Lindy grew up in Denver and graduated from Smith College\, where she met Richard Grossinger. In 1965 they began a college magazine called Io\, which became an influential literary magazine of the 60s-70s with its mix of geography\, film\, poetry\, Native American myth\, baseball\, alchemy\, etc. In Vermont in the early 70s she cofounded North Atlantic Books\, an outgrowth of Io. In 1977  Grossinger and Hough brought  to Berkeley; it continues to this day as a mind/body/spirit publisher—Io was preserved not as a magazine\, but as anthologies published by NAB through the early 90s.  Lindy taught writing and literature for twenty years\, did graduate work towards a PhD in Social and Cultural Studies\, and was Publisher and Editor of North Atlantic from 1994-2010. After thirty-eight years in Berkeley\, Lindy and Richard moved to Portland\, ME in 2014.\n\nDarlin’ You is a literary upmarket post World War II novel about a love triangle between two dynamic women in the early 50s and the man who loves them both.  The characters struggle with the pleasures and agonies of secrecy\, truth\, individuation\, and marriage in this repressive era against the backdrop of the uranium boom in the Four Corners area.  \n  \nIn 1953 wild commodities speculation has been fueled by Los Alamos’s need for raw uranium ore for the Manhattan Project. Nationally\, Cold War tension is exacerbating fears of widespread Communist subversion—Senator Joe McCarthy is on a rampage with a huge dragnet\, calling up suspected Communists\, conducting homosexual witch-hunts. In the Four Corners\, Navajo uranium miners are contracting lung cancer from exposure to radioactive dust. \n  \nSet during nine months in 1953\, the story unfolds from different vantage points\, including two children. The plot  is anchored by Rebecca\, a Denver collage artist who teaches in a school for brain-injured children and is married to Jeremy\, with whom she has three girls. He publishes oil and uranium trade journals—travelling to southwestern states on business\, testifying in Congressional hearings\, and leading a world tour of uranium investors. Gossip about Jeremy leads Rebecca to burlesque stripper Cinnamon Blue\, who is quirky\, outspoken\, and daring. A halting friendship is formed and deepens into a passionate love affair with consequences and choices\, as Rebecca learns that others are illuminated by illuminating herself.   \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/richard-grossinger-lindy-hough/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/RIch-Lindy-Outside-Driskill.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170605T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170605T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T075323 CREATED:20170516T153549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170516T153756Z UID:7680-1496691000-1496696400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Open Mic DESCRIPTION:Each reader gets five minutes.  Sign up at the door.  Bring your words.  Get heard! \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/open-mic-20/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/openmicgeneral.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR