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 […]

Jungian Study Group Introductory Overview

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

  Monthly Meeting on Mondays -7:00 - 9:00 pm   Carl Jung spent his lifetime exploring the relationship of our individual existence to the Grand Cosmology of the world around us. He addressed simple questions which are still being asked today. What is our relationship to ourselves, to others and to the world of nature […]

College Essay Program Training Night

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

College Essay Program Training Night Every Fall, the Gloucester Writers Center organizes volunteers to go into Gloucester High School to help seniors with their college essays. You do not necessarily need to be a writer, but good reading and editing skills are a plus. The volunteers sit in the high school library, and students come […]

Open Mic

Each reader gets five minutes.  Bring your words.  Get heard!

Dorothy Nelson and Preston Hood: Writing Through

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Writing Through Preston Hood and Dorothy Shubow Nelson will read from their recent poems in response to each other's work,  and share a few of Vincent Ferrini's and Charles Olson's poems as well. Open mic and refreshments afterwards.   Dorothy Shubow Nelson’s poems have appeared in Polis IV, 2014; Human Architecture VII, 2009; Consequence Vol. I, […]

Joel Dinerstein

Joel Dinerstein is the author of several works on the history of cool, including The Origins of Cool in Postwar America (University of Chicago, May 2017), Coach: A Study of New York Cool (Rizzoli 2016), and American Cool (2014). He was the co-curator of American Cool (2014), an acclaimed photography and cultural history exhibit at […]

Jungian Study Group

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Jungian Study Group Monthly Meeting on Mondays -7:00 - 9:00 pm   Carl Jung spent his lifetime exploring the relationship of our individual existence to the Grand Cosmology of the world around us. He addressed simple questions which are still being asked today. What is our relationship to ourselves, to others and to the world […]