The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
Timothy Donnelly is the author of two books of poetry, Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit, and The Cloud Corporation. Donnelly is an assistant professor and director of undergraduate creative writing at Columbia University. He is also the poetry editor for Boston Review. Donnelly is originally from Rhode Island but now lives in […]
WE HOPE TO PRESENT THIS EXCITING TRIO DURING THE SUMMER. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE. Jazz-up your Saturday night – literally! On the evening of the seventh of April, the Rocky Neck Cultural Center will be hosting a Jazz Poetry night to benefit the Gloucester Writers Center. Saxy Poetry, Jazzy Song – as the gathering […]
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Nausheen Eusuf is a PhD candidate in English at Boston University and a graduate of the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins. Her poetry has appeared in The American Scholar, Southwest Review, Salmagundi, PN Review, Literary Imagination, World Literature Today, and other journals. Her first collection of poems, Not Elegy, But Eros, was recently published by NYQ Books (US) and Bengal Lights Books […]
Joan Houlihan will be reading poems from her newly-published book, Shadow-feast, from Four Way Books. Houlihan is the author of four other books of poetry: Hand-Held Executions: Poems & Essays (2003); The Mending Worm, (which received the 2006 Green Rose Award from New Issues Press); The Us (2009), which received a Must Read distinction from […]
French poet and native Sétois Paul Valéry referred to Sète as “L’ile Singulière,” the remarkable island. George Brassens, popular singer/songwriter and poet also drew inspiration from this Mediterranean port city and its inhabitants. New Wave filmmaker Agnès Varda directed her debut film La Pointe Courte in a Sétois fishing neighborhood of the same name. In […]
Joseph Bathanti is former Poet Laureate of North Carolina (2012-14) and recipient of the 2016 North Carolina Award for Literature. He is the author of ten books of poetry, including Communion Partners; Anson County; The Feast of All Saints; This Metal, (nominated for the National Book Award, and winner of the Oscar Arnold Young Award); Land […]