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Cathy Strisik, Ani Gjika and Pui Ying Wong

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

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, […]

Charles Guiliano and Geoffrey Movius

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

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. Geoffrey Movius first came to Cape Ann in the summer of 1944, and has […]

Reading of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Gloucester City Hall Dale Avenue, Gloucester, MA, United States

Worldwide Reading of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 6 September 2017 Click here for a list of readings around the world. Details to follow.    

Jonathan Bayliss Birthday Bash and Gilgamesh Play Reading

To celebrate the September 7, 1926 birth of Jonathan Bayliss, the playwright and novelist who died in 2009 here in the city of his fiction, Cape Ann residents will read portions of his play The Acts of Gilgamesh. The play is loosely based on the ancient Gilgamesh epic, takes place in Sumer (now southern Iraq), […]

Michael Casey and Paul Marion

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

  The publication of Michael Casey's latest book, There It Is: New & Selected Poems, has been called "an event to celebrate" (Edward Field). The winner of the 1972 Yale Younger Poets Prize for his stunning collection of Vietnam War poems titled Obscenities, Casey is the author of several collections, including Millrat and Check Points. […]

Open Mic

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Ben Berman and Joshua Scott-Fishburn

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

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 […]

Fishtales: Birth

Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United States

FISH TALES With Maureen Aylward Birth It's all about creation. Friday, September 15th   7:30 Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street East Gloucester $10 Donation – no one turned away due to lack of funds In partnership with the North Shore Postpartum Task Force

Kate Tarlow Morgan “Memoirs of Places & Phrases” DATE CHANGED

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

   “Memoirs of Places & Phrases” with Kate Tarlow Morgan Kate 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 […]

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