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:20170605T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170605T193000 DTSTAMP:20260426T131126 CREATED:20170530T140305Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170530T140305Z UID:7708-1496685600-1496691000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Love Fest DESCRIPTION:Gloucester ‘Love Fest’ – an interactive community art project traveling throughout Gloucester neighborhoods this summer to help spread messages of LOVE and POSITIVITY. Messages are written on banner paper (‘Love Panels’). At the end of the project\, all the panels will be brought together for display at City Hall. Share messages of love\, and watch love ‘ripple out’ to the 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/love-fest/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, MA\, 01930\, United States CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/lovefestflyer.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170603T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170603T120000 DTSTAMP:20260426T131126 CREATED:20170530T133025Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170530T133025Z UID:7706-1496487600-1496491200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Annual Meeting DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 3 \n  \n11:00 \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/annual-meeting-3/ LOCATION:Maud / Olson Library\, 108 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170531T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170531T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T131126 CREATED:20170507T012913Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170516T135629Z UID:7647-1496259000-1496264400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Kyle Schlesinger: Olson at Goddard DESCRIPTION:Kyle Schlesinger is a poet living in Austin. Some recent poetry books include: Sydney Omarr’s Wild Children\, with the artist Flynn Maria Bergann (Further Other Book Works\, 2017); Far & Away (Textile Series\, 2017); and Let’s Drift (CL Press\, 2017). Scholarly works include A Poetics of the Press (Ugly Ducking Presse\, 2017)\, Dwell Time\, with Aaron Cohick (DoubleCross Press\, 2017) and Threads Talks\, with Steve Clay (Granary Books\, 2016). He is proprietor of Cuneiform Press\, a literary arts organization\, and the Director of the Graduate School of Publishing at the University of Houston. \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/kyle-schesinger-olson-goddard/ LOCATION:MA CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/DSC_8125-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170527T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170527T183000 DTSTAMP:20260426T131126 CREATED:20170423T011625Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170423T012121Z UID:7631-1495899000-1495909800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Olson Panel at the ALA DESCRIPTION:May 27 Olson Panel at the ALA\nThe Westin Copley Place – 10 Huntington Avenue\n3:40 – 5:00 pm (panel)\n5:10 – 6:30 pm  Screening of “The Door is Open – Charles Olson”\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/olson-panel-ala/ LOCATION:Westin Copley Place\, 10 Huntington Ave\, Boston CATEGORIES:Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170524T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170524T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T131126 CREATED:20170411T155936Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170513T120324Z UID:7618-1495654200-1495659600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Thorpe Feidt and Patrick Doud DESCRIPTION: Thorpe Feidt is a painter\,  writer and sometime actor.  His long series of paintings\, “The Ambiguities\,” begun in 1975\, continues through the present.  His novel\, “The Oracular Room\,” from which he will be reading\, was published last year by Station Hill of Barrytown.\n\n\n\nPoet and novelist Patrick Doud will give a reading of both new and old work. Born in 1968 in Syracuse\, New York\, he grew up in Bernhards Bay\, a hamlet on the northern shore of Oneida Lake\, and in East Amherst\, a suburb of Buffalo. After several years of academic wandering he found his way to Bard College in the Hudson Valley\, where he studied literature (and through friends and teachers was introduced to Thorpe Feidt’s incredible serial paintings). Books of poetry published so far are Girding the Ghost\, The Man in Green\, and Hickory Bardolino Poems. Books of fiction published so far are two American fantasies\, The Hunt for the Eye of Ogin and The Mornith War. He lives with his wife Heather and their two sons.\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/thorpe-feidt-patrick-doud/ 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/thorpe.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170510T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170510T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T131126 CREATED:20170303T032859Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170501T141734Z UID:7551-1494444600-1494450000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Marc Levy DESCRIPTION:  \nFormer Gloucester resident​ and Vietnam vet Marc Levy will be reading from his new book How Stevie Nearly Lost the War and Other Postwar Stories. \n\n“Rhythmic\, visceral\, laconic\, powerful\, this collection of short stories will haunt the reader long after he finishes reading it.”\nNguyen Ba Chung\, William Joiner Center\, U Mass Boston \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/marc-levy-2/ LOCATION:MA CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/marclevy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170504T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170504T203000 DTSTAMP:20260426T131126 CREATED:20170411T142102Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170411T142156Z UID:7602-1493924400-1493929800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Deborah Cramer: The Making of The Narrow Edge 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/deborah-cramer-making-narrow-edge/ LOCATION:Sawyer Free Library\, 2 Dale Ave\, Gloucester CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Deborah-Cramer-2017.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170501T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170501T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T131126 CREATED:20170411T152440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170411T152440Z UID:7611-1493667000-1493672400@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-19/ 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:20170501T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170501T190000 DTSTAMP:20260426T131126 CREATED:20170411T152150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170501T143542Z UID:7609-1493658000-1493665200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Getting Heard: Pizza and Postcards DESCRIPTION:How to be heard by your government: Using the traditional tools of letters and\npostcards\, we will discuss ways of expressing oneself on paper to effect policy\nchange. We will focus on how to lobby for or against specific issues clearly and\nwith purpose\, without attack or blame. In any communication with a government\nofficial\, we will discuss the importance of referencing factual information\, where\nto find it\, and the power of a personal impact statement. Bring paper\, pen\, and\npostcards and be prepared to write. Resource sheets listing to whom and where to\naddress your concerns will be available. This event is free and open to the public. \nLed by JoeAnn Hart. \n\nWe will be meeting before our monthly open mic.  If you know you will be attending\, please email Amanda@gloucesterwriters.org.  No RSVP is required\, but knowing will help us make sure we have enough pizza! \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/getting-heard-pizza-postcards/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170426T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170426T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T131126 CREATED:20170313T161124Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170313T161448Z UID:7567-1493235000-1493240400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Fanny Howe DESCRIPTION:Fanny Howe has written many books of poetry and fiction. Her most recent collection of\npoetry is Second Childhood from Graywolf Press. She was a Finalist for the\nNational Book Award in 2014 for that book and for the Man Booker International\nAward\,2015\, for her fiction. Her newest collection of prose\, The Needle’s Eye\,was\npublished in November 2016. She taught for 45 years and now lives in Massachusetts. \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/fanny-howe/ LOCATION:MA CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/FannyHowe-photo-e1489421669763.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170412T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170412T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T131126 CREATED:20170303T021421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170303T032120Z UID:7546-1492025400-1492030800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Jeff Zinn DESCRIPTION:Jeff Zinn\, Equity actor\, Award-winning director and GSC managing director will read from his memoir. “The Existential Actor : Life and Death Onstage and Off.” \n“This is a book for the thinking actor\, and the finest actors I’ve known are just that. The best actors bring it all together body\, heart\, spirit\, and mind. This book is for the actor who thinks about craft and influence\, who thinks about the relationship of performance to living\, who thinks about doing and what that doing means. Acting is a metaphor and it’s a mirror\, and\, so\, a theory of acting\, if true\, shows us to ourselves. Jeff Zinn knows this. He knows it as an actor\, director\, teacher\, and thinker. His theory of everything is simple and revelatory.” (from the foreword by Todd London) \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/jeff-zinn/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170411T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170411T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T131126 CREATED:20170321T143046Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170321T153914Z UID:7575-1491937200-1491944400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Fish Tales: A Celebration of Poetry Month 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-celebration-poetry-month/ LOCATION:Sawyer Free Library\, 2 Dale Ave\, Gloucester CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170408T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170408T120000 DTSTAMP:20260426T131126 CREATED:20170228T153632Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170228T153632Z UID:7522-1491645600-1491652800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Charles Olson's Impact DESCRIPTION:In this six-week course we will explore Charles Olson’s core poems and essays and their influence on two generations of poets. We will begin with his students at Black Mountain College and poets who published in the Black Mountain Review and Origin\, broadening our scope to include the 1950s Boston School of poetry\, the British Poetry Revival\, Ethnopoetics and more.    \nDavid Rich is the editor of Charles Olson: Letters Home\, 1949 – 1969. His writing has recently appeared in Letters for Olson and Let the Bucket Down. At the Cape Ann Museum he has presented on Gloucester writers Alfred Mansfield Brooks\, Hiram Rich\, Clarence Manning Falt\, Charles Olson and Vincent Ferrini. David was educated at Boston University and Harvard. \nApril 8\, 15\, 22\, 29 and May 6 and 13 \n10:00 am to noon \n$200 \nThis class will meet at the Maud / Olson Library at 108 East Main Street. \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/charles-olsons-impact/ LOCATION:Maud / Olson Library\, 108 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Classes END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170406T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170406T120000 DTSTAMP:20260426T131126 CREATED:20170228T161756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170228T161756Z UID:7524-1491469200-1491480000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Short Story Writing: Structure and Meaning DESCRIPTION:Short Story Writing: Structure and Meaning \nAnn McArdle \nThis workshop will combine reading and studying classic short stories as examples\, in-class writing exercises\, and writing a new and original short story. Participants will be expected to work on their writing outside of class hours as well as in class. \nThursdays 9 am to noon \nApril 6\, 13 and 20\, and May 4\, 11 and 18 \n$200 \nAnn McArdle is a published author in several genres: nonfiction\, fiction\, and short plays. She has taught creative writing for more than 15 years\, the last several of which were at Gloucester Writers Center. She is currently working on her memoir of her years living in Uruguay in the early 70s\, as well as a children’s picture book and a full-length play. \n\n\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/short-story-writing-structure-meaning/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Classes END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170405T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170405T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T131126 CREATED:20170313T160508Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170325T201139Z UID:7564-1491420600-1491426000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Sandra Williams and Jan Blais DESCRIPTION:Sandra Williams will read excerpts from Moss on Stone\, a local\, historical novella inspired by the diary of the young Susannah Norwood Torrey (1826-1908)\, a resident of Rockport\, MA in the mid-nineteenth century. With insight sensitivity\, and lyrical expression\, Susannah speaks to us\, who live in a very different time\, but not so different in human experience. All times are times of change. All lives are fraught with the joys and sorrows of being human. Here is the story of Susannah’s particular joys and sorrows imagined from her perspective in an afterlife. \nSandra taught Language Arts\, World Literature\, and Reading/Writing & Research for over twenty-five years at both high school and university levels. Having always written poetry and essays\, with several articles published in New View magazine\, UK\, she now has published Moss on Stone. Time and Tide\, a collection of short stories will be published in the fall of 2017. Sandra loves living on beautiful Cape Ann\, inspired by its beauty and its community of creativity. She is a member of the Finish Line writers’ group at the Gloucester Writers Center where she facilitates a Poetry group\, and is on the Education Committee. \nhttp:// mossonstoneauthor.blogspot. com/  \nMoss on Stone is available on Amazon. \nJan Blais will be reading selections from his new novel Finding Botticelli\, and excerpts from his novels Flight Path and Twentieth Century Limited. \nFinding Botticelli begins with the theft of a sixteenth-century masterpiece from the museum of a small college west of Boston. In a bizarre twist\, the thieves leave something behind that may be far more valuable – an apparently very old\, very fine rendition of Boticelli’s Primavera. The story revolves around finding the stolen painting and discovering what the college really has on its hands – a genuine Botticelli or a clever fake. Even before tests are complete\, the impetuous Fine Arts Department Chairman barges ahead\, making the found painting\, now being called “Primavera Due\,” the centerpiece of a campaign to save the financially-troubled museum. Though fearful of embarrassing the college and wrecking her career\, the young museum director bends to his pressure and begins organizing a blockbuster exhibition to showcase Due. The story ends with a bang and a surprise. \nFlight Path is the story of a major international airline based in New York City and its confrontation with a small regional airline on the west coast. The time is 1978\, deregulation is just taking hold and aggressive new airlines are springing up everywhere\, undercutting the established airlines with low fares and service where there had been little or no competion. But despite the disruption\, confusion and threat to the bottom line\, they all must strive to maintain safe and reliable service. \nIn Twentieth Century Limited Paul Bernard\, a disabled Vietnam vet\, becomes a prize-winning reporter\, foreign correspondent and network anchorman. Long critical of the radical right\, after 9-11 Bernard attacks the Bush administration for allowing Osama bin Laden to escape and propelling the nation into a disastrous war. On assignment in Iraq\, Bernard is killed under suspicious circumstances. Interwoven with Bernard’s account of his life is an interview of his professor/mentor by a reporter profiling Bernard for The New Yorker magazine. Frustrated by Washington’s excuses\, they set about uncovering the truth behind the killing. \nOriginally from Rhode Island\, Jan Blais has lived all over the country. Last year his wife Barbara and he relocated to Gloucester where he continues to consult and write. For further information see www.jandavidblais.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/sandra-williams-jan-blais/ LOCATION:MA CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/sandrajanbw.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170403T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170403T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T131126 CREATED:20170324T221409Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170324T221409Z UID:7580-1491247800-1491253200@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-18/ 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:20170329T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170329T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T131126 CREATED:20170204T224543Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170204T224555Z UID:7477-1490815800-1490821200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Brian Sneeden DESCRIPTION:Brian Sneeden’s first collection of poems\, Last City\, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press (2018). His work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal\, Harvard Review\, TriQuarterly\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, and other publications\, and translations of his poems have been published in international magazines in Greek\, Albanian\, and Serbian. Brian also translates modern Greek poetry\, and his translation of Phoebe Giannisi’s poetry collection\, Homerica\, is forthcoming from the inaugural series of World Poetry Books (2017). He received his MFA from the University of Virginia\, where he held a Poe/Faulkner Fellowship in creative writing and served as poetry editor for Meridian. He is the senior editor of New Poetry in Translation. \nBrian Sneeden on his work on Olson:\n“My research on the poetry of Charles Olson has primarily involved examining the use of apostrophe and other semiotic forms of enunciative address in The Maximus Poems. I am particularly interested in how his usage of an indeterminate “you” throughout the poem establishes what Jonathan Culler calls lyric temporality via triangulated address between the “I” of the speaker\, the “you” of the addressed\, and the reader who overhears this exchange.” \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/brian-sneeden/ LOCATION:MA CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Sneeden-Headshot.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170324T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170324T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T131126 CREATED:20170309T234550Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170321T154448Z UID:7561-1490383800-1490389200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Fish Tales: NERDS DESCRIPTION:Fish Tales w/ Jim Dowd\nNERDS\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday March 24\, Cultural Center at Rocky Neck\n\n7:30 to 9:00  6 Wonson Street\nFeaturing:\nour first middle school fish tale teller Abby Cook \n and Anne Donnolley\, Len Pal\, Sean Lally\n& a mystery couple \n\nwho met playing a video game\, him in England her in USA- now married. \nShe fell in love the way he would say Kumquat.\n\n\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/fish-tales-nerds/ 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/2017/03/robot-at-the-wheel2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170322T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170322T120000 DTSTAMP:20260426T131126 CREATED:20170211T190720Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170211T190720Z UID:7491-1490176800-1490184000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Veterans Writing Workshop Spring 2017 DESCRIPTION:The Veterans Writing Workshop resumes on Wednesday March 22 and continues on Wednesdays through May 10\nat the Gloucester Veterans Center \, 12 Emerson Ave. \n“…a journey is called that because you cannot know\nwhat you will discover on the journey\, what you will do\,\nwhat you will find\, or what you find will do to you.”\n— James Baldwin \nThe spring 2017 Veterans Writing Workshop will take place on Wednesdays starting on March 22 and ending on May 10 from 10:00 a.m. – 12 noon. Beginning and experienced writers are invited to share their work in a friendly and supportive learning environment. Veterans from all conflicts including disaster relief and peacetime veterans as well as family members and supporters are welcome. \nThis the fourth year of these writing workshops. Classes are held in the Gloucester Veterans Center \, 12 Emerson Ave. We focus on the various ways that writing takes place\, its process\, the value of establishing a regular writing and reading practice\, and close\, receptive listening to the writings of others. Different forms such as memoir\, personal histories\, essays\, journal writing\, and poetry will be explored. \nThis workshop is limited to 12 participants. To register please call Lucia Amero at 978-281-9740. For more information send email to Dorothyelsa@yahoo.com (subject: veterans writing workshop). \nDorothy Shubow Nelson\, M.A.\, teacher\, editor\, writer and poet\, formerly Senior Lecturer in English at UMass Boston\, is the facilitator and teacher of this workshop. She has taught writing and literature for 25 years. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Gloucester Writers Center . Her book\, The Dream of the Sea\, was published in 2008. \nThis writing workshop is supported by the Gloucester Office of Veterans Services and the Gloucester Writers Center . There is no charge for this workshop. \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/veterans-writing-workshop-spring-2017/ LOCATION:Gloucester Office of Veterans Services\, 12 Emerson Avenue\, Gloucester\, MA\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Classes END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170319T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170319T200000 DTSTAMP:20260426T131126 CREATED:20170302T212002Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T212002Z UID:7529-1489946400-1489953600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Rescheduled! 10-Minute Plays Staged Reading 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/rescheduled-10-minute-plays-staged-reading/ 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/2017/03/rescheduled12thstaged.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170315T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170315T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T131126 CREATED:20170223T140511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170223T141142Z UID:7510-1489606200-1489611600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Simeon Berry DESCRIPTION:Simeon Berry was born in Guilford\, Connecticut\, and was educated at New\nCollege of Florida and Eckerd College. He received a M.F.A. in Poetry from\nIndiana University at Bloomington. He has been an Associate Editor for\nPloughshares\, and won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist\nGrant and a Career Chapter Award from the National Society of Arts and\nLetters. His work has appeared in Crazyhorse\, AGNI\, Colorado Review\,\nBlackbird\, DIAGRAM\, The Iowa Review\, American Letters & Commentary\, and\nmany other journals. His first book\, Ampersand Revisited\, won the 2013\nNational Poetry Series (Fence Books)\, and his second book\, Monograph\, won\nthe 2014 National Poetry Series (University of Georgia Press). \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/simeon-berry/ LOCATION:MA CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Simeon.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170312T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170312T173000 DTSTAMP:20260426T131126 CREATED:20170128T013435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170312T170439Z UID:7450-1489334400-1489339800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Getting Heard DESCRIPTION:How to be heard by your government: Using the traditional tools of letters and\npostcards\, we will discuss ways of expressing oneself on paper to effect policy\nchange. We will focus on how to lobby for or against specific issues clearly and\nwith purpose\, without attack or blame. In any communication with a government\nofficial\, we will discuss the importance of referencing factual information\, where\nto find it\, and the power of a personal impact statement. Bring paper\, pen\, and\npostcards and be prepared to write. Resource sheets listing to whom and where to\naddress your concerns will be available. This event is free and open to the public. \nLed by JoeAnn Hart. \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/getting-heard/ LOCATION:MA CATEGORIES:Classes,Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170311T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170311T113000 DTSTAMP:20260426T131126 CREATED:20170211T164444Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170225T193136Z UID:7489-1489226400-1489231800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Explore Your Own Amazement- Poetry DESCRIPTION:EXPLORE YOUR OWN AMAZEMENT-POETRY\nPeer-facilitated writing group\nwith Sandra Williams \nTogether we will explore our own amazement\, through sharing poems we love\, and what we think is worth writing about. We will create poems facilitated by prompts and exercises\, as well as from our own desire to express what we see\, what we feel\, what we know\, what we fear\, what we hope\, what we remember—what we dream (and more).\nSaturdays from 10:00 am-11:30 am\nSaturday\, March 11th\, first class \nCLASS DATES: March 11\, 18\, 25\, and April 8\, 15\, and 22nd \nPlease register by March 6. \nSandra Williams believes writing is therapeutic and enlightening\, as it relies on our intuition\, our imagination and expresses the inspiration of our thoughts\, feelings and experience. She taught writing and world literature at both the high school and university levels. She is author of Moss on Stone: an historical novella\, based on a mid-nineteenth century diary of a Rockport\, Massachusetts woman\, and is currently working on a collection of short stories.\nSandra is a member of the Finish Line writers’ group at Gloucester Writers Center.\nShe can be reached at sandrosew@gmail.com \nTo register\, click the button below or email Gloucesterwriters@gmail.com. \n\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/explore-amazement-poetry/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Classes END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170309T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170309T200000 DTSTAMP:20260426T131126 CREATED:20170211T145046Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170307T160016Z UID:7485-1489084200-1489089600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Intro to Memoir Writing DESCRIPTION:CANCELLED \nINTRO TO MEMOIR WRITING\nPeer-facilitated writing group\nwith Dan Duffy \nThe purpose of this group is to learn from and contribute to each other’s understanding of memoir writing. The Facilitator and group members will help to create a learning environment for beginning writers to: meet\, write\, share segments of their writing\, and provide feedback on one another’s writing. \nThursdays from 6:30 pm-8 pm\nThursday\, March 9th\, first class \nCLASS DATES: March 9\, 16\, 23\, and April 6\, 13\, and 20th \nPlease register by March 6. \nDan Duffy\, Ed.D. is a retired community college administrator\, who along with his wife Helene\, is now a New England Innkeeper at The Beech Tree B&B in Rockport\, Massachusetts. He Indie published his memoir\, “Brother\, Brother: A Brother Searches for His Missing Brother” in May 2016 as a tribute to his older brother\, Rich. Dan has been a member of the GWC Board for the past two years\, recently assuming Chair of the Education Committee.\nHe can be reached at: danduffyauthor@gmail.com \nTo register\, click below or email Gloucesterwriters@gmail.com. \n\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/intro-memoir-writing/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Classes END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170308T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170308T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T131126 CREATED:20170128T004527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170128T004527Z UID:7441-1489001400-1489006800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Lynn Xu and Joshua Edwards DESCRIPTION:Lynn Xu was born in Shanghai. She is the author of Debts & Lessons (Omnidawn)\, which was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize\, and June (a chapbook from Corollary Press). She has also received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Foundation. When not traveling\, she lives in Marfa\, Texas\, where she co-edits Canarium Books. This year\, Xu is a Visiting Professor in the MFA for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst. She’ll be reading a series of “Lullabies” from Debts & Lessons\, as well as selections from a work-in-progress\, Telepathos. \nJoshua Edwards directs Canarium Books. He’s the author of Castles and Islands\, Architecture for Travelers\, Imperial Nostalgias\, and Campeche\, and a photobook\, Photographs Taken at One-Hour Intervals During a Walk from Galveston Island to the West Texas Town of Marfa. He’s received grants and fellowships from the Fulbright-Garcia Robles Program\, University of Michigan\, Stanford University\, the Akademie Schloss Solitude\, and elsewhere. He’ll be reading poems written for collaborations with artists (including Charlotte Moth\, whose first US solo exhibition is currently up at the MIT List Visual Arts Center)\, and excerpts from a recently-completed verse novella\, Agonistes. \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/lynn-xu-joshua-edwards/ LOCATION:MA CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/march8.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170308T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170308T200000 DTSTAMP:20260426T131126 CREATED:20170211T142808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170307T155940Z UID:7481-1488997800-1489003200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Creative Diversions for the Writer's Brain DESCRIPTION:Cancelled \nCREATIVE DIVERSIONS FOR THE WRITER’S BRAIN\nPeer-facilitated writing group\nwith Stacey Dexter \nThis group will focus on writing from prompts\, free writing sessions and writing stories in the round. Facilitator will provide prompts\, guidance and keep the group on task. Sharing with each other will keep it fresh and fun! The group is open to writers of any level who would like to exercise their creative writing skills\, use their imagination\, and connect with each other. \nWednesdays from 6:30 pm-8 pm\nMarch 8\, 15\, 22 and April 5\, 12\, and 19th \nPlease register by March 6. \nStacey Dexter is a musician\, singer\, songwriter\, and a passionate lover of books. She is a life-long supporter of her local library\, and is confident that the more one reads\, the more one improves their writing skills. Stacey believes that writing provides not only an insightful emotional outlet\, but a safe and creative way to express one’s thoughts\, feelings and ideas. Stacey currently edits others’ works and has had her own op-ed pieces featured in the Gloucester Daily Times. Her original music has been featured online and on radio. She is a past member of the Finish Line\, a writer’s group affiliated with the GWC. Ms. Dexter is currently working on two non-fictional projects\, journals daily\, and loves to experiment with words and storytelling. She can be reached at stacey.dexter7@gmail.com \nRegister by clicking below or by emailing gloucesterwriters@gmail.com. \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/creative-diversions-writers-brain/ LOCATION:Maud / Olson Library\, 108 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Classes,Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170306T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170306T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T131126 CREATED:20170223T135234Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170223T135234Z UID:7508-1488828600-1488834000@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-17/ LOCATION:MA 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:20170305T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170305T160000 DTSTAMP:20260426T131126 CREATED:20170223T135030Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170225T192000Z UID:7506-1488722400-1488729600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:International Women's Day Reading DESCRIPTION:“Every Man / Every Woman carries a firmament inside\n& the stars in it are not the stars in the sky” \nDiane di Prima \nWomen of Cape Ann.\nLet us get together to celebrate\nthe writings of women. \nYou are invited to read at this event\nfrom the writings of one or two\nof your favorite women writers. \nCome to the Gloucester Writers Center\nwith a folder or book in hand to read\nif you choose. \nEveryone is welcome to listen\nand join the conversation. \nTo sign up email Amanda@gloucesterwriters.org or sign up at the door. \nPlease keep your reading to about five minutes. \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/international-womens-day-reading-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/2017/02/intwomen.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170301T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170301T210000 DTSTAMP:20260426T131126 CREATED:20161223T150536Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170204T164429Z UID:7341-1488396600-1488402000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Dan Duffy and Jan Blais DESCRIPTION:Dan Duffy’s memoir Brother\, Brother; mostly truth\, part fiction\, is a tribute to his older brother Rich\, whom he will always consider a casualty of the post-Vietnam era. Missing in America for the past 45 years\, Rich mysteriously reappears along with his ’66 GTO convertible and coerces Dan to retrace the cross-country route he took back in ’70 to settle in a commune in Corrales\, New Mexico. \nWith Dan taking control behind the wheel and Rich in the passenger seat\, Dan recreates some of Rich’s experiences as a flower child/Jesus freak. They visit places like The Badlands\, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation\, Yellowstone\, The Grand Tetons\, Elko Nevada\, the Haight/Ashbury District\, Yosemite\, The Grand Canyon and Zion National Park in an attempt to understand the life Rich chose\, which was so drastically different from Dan’s. \nAlong the way they relive memories of the brief 18 years they shared growing up in the absence of their alcoholic father in a struggling single parent household of five kids. In exploring their relationship\, Dan confronts several personal issues surrounding the role Rich played in shaping who he is and the impact his disappearance has had on his life. \nJan Blais will be reading selections from his new novel Finding Botticelli\, and excerpts from his novels Flight Path and Twentieth Century Limited. \nFinding Botticelli begins with the theft of a sixteenth-century masterpiece from the museum of a small college west of Boston. In a bizarre twist\, the thieves leave something behind that may be far more valuable – an apparently very old\, very fine rendition of Boticelli’s Primavera. The story revolves around finding the stolen painting and discovering what the college really has on its hands – a genuine Botticelli or a clever fake. Even before tests are complete\, the impetuous Fine Arts Department Chairman barges ahead\, making the found painting\, now being called “Primavera Due\,” the centerpiece of a campaign to save the financially-troubled museum. Though fearful of embarrassing the college and wrecking her career\, the young museum director bends to his pressure and begins organizing a blockbuster exhibition to showcase Due. The story ends with a bang and a surprise. \nFlight Path is the story of a major international airline based in New York City and its confrontation with a small regional airline on the west coast. The time is 1978\, deregulation is just taking hold and aggressive new airlines are springing up everywhere\, undercutting the established airlines with low fares and service where there had been little or no competion. But despite the disruption\, confusion and threat to the bottom line\, they all must strive to maintain safe and reliable service. \nIn Twentieth Century Limited Paul Bernard\, a disabled Vietnam vet\, becomes a prize-winning reporter\, foreign correspondent and network anchorman. Long critical of the radical right\, after 9-11 Bernard attacks the Bush administration for allowing Osama bin Laden to escape and propelling the nation into a disastrous war. On assignment in Iraq\, Bernard is killed under suspicious circumstances. Interwoven with Bernard’s account of his life is an interview of his professor/mentor by a reporter profiling Bernard for The New Yorker magazine. Frustrated by Washington’s excuses\, they set about uncovering the truth behind the killing. \nOriginally from Rhode Island\, Jan Blais has lived all over the country. Last year his wife Barbara and he relocated to Gloucester where he continues to consult and write. For further information see www.jandavidblais.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/dan-duffy-jan-blais/ LOCATION:MA CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/duffyblais.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170222T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170222T213000 DTSTAMP:20260426T131126 CREATED:20161223T150411Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170221T160741Z UID:7339-1487791800-1487799000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Milkweed DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading from the first issue! \nMilkweed is a Greater Boston area based literary journal that features poetry\, fiction\, and non-fiction from a variety of different writers. \nMilkweed was founded with the intention of seeking out writers who produce unique and thought-provoking work. At Milkweed\, we are avid readers ourselves\, and we aim to deliver refreshing content to our audience that makes them feel excited about the art of writing. We are dedicated to looking at stories from every angle and compiling a collection of the most raw and honest work we can get our hands on. Being advocates for preserving the printed word\, we have also decided to keep our issues in physical printed form. \nIn addition to being a published magazine\, we aim to bring together aspiring writers from all different backgrounds. We want to give people an outlet to tell the stories they have always felt needed telling\, and we want to celebrate those stories as a community of creative thinkers. \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/milkweed/ LOCATION:MA CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/milkweed.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR