The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
André Spears, co-founder of the Gloucester Writers Center & director of its Maud / Olson Library, will read from work in progress, recent excerpts from which have appeared in Dispatches from the Poetry Wars under the titles "Ship of State" (Parts 1 & 2).
Donald J. Byrd is a poet, sound artist, and Professor of English at the State University of New York at Albany. His work is generally in the fields of literary analysis and information theory. In his lifetime, he proposes to complete one-hundred volumes that will complete a set which he refers to as The Nomad's […]
4-Week Workshop with Staged Reading event post-Workshop M. Lynda Robinson *POSTPONED ONE WEEK* This workshop will now begin on Thursday, September 29 and end on Thursday, October 20 Thursday Evenings, September 29, October 6, October 13 and October 20 7:00-9:30 $125 Public Staged Reading – date TBD Limited to 12 participants. Everyone has a story […]
Bring your words. Get heard! Each reader gets five minutes. Sign up at the door.
“A Letter To A Friend” By Paul Valéry (1896) with Kate Tarlow Morgan & Kai Krienke My time at GWC will prepare and present the second act of “An Evening with Monsieur Teste,” by poet/essayist, Paul Valéry, entitled “A Letter to A Friend.” Stepping out of the solo work of “An Evening with M. Teste” […]
Veterans Writing Workshop Resumes on Thursday October 13 at the Gloucester Veterans Center , 12 Emerson Ave. The writer must take his subject from his heart not just his ear. – Ralph Waldo Emerson The fall 2016 Veterans Writing Workshop will take place on Thursdays starting on October 13 and ending on November 17 […]
Garrett Caples is the author of three books of poems and a book of essays, Retrievals (Wave Books, 2014). He is also an editor at City Lights Books, where he curates the Spotlight poetry series. He co-edited The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia (California, 2013), Particulars of Place by Richard O. Moore (Omnidawn, 2015), and Incidents of Travel in Poetry: New & […]
