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Lee Van Der Voo. Fish Market: Inside the Big Money Battle for the Ocean & Your Dinner Plate.
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterAboard 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 […]
Cathy Strisik, Ani Gjika and Pui Ying Wong
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterCathy 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, GloucesterCharles 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 StatesWorldwide 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, GloucesterThe 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. […]
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Ben Berman and Joshua Scott-Fishburn
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterBen 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 […]