The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
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Don Wellman and Cheryl Clark Vermeulen
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterDonald Wellman, poet, editor, and translator, his recent book of poetry is Essay Poems (Dos Madres: Loveland OH). Other books from Dos Madre include The Cranberry Island Series and A North Atlantic Wall; Prolog Pages was issued by Ahadada (2009); Fields (Light and Dust 1995). For several years, he edited O.ARS, a series of anthologies, […]
Fish Tales: Radio Days
Gloucester Stage Company 267 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA, United StatesGet tickets here!
Jay Featherstone
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterJay Featherstone’s Glass is true to its title as these poems allow the reader to look straight though language to see clearly how joy and loss are inextricably connected (“On the path to impoverishment,/tenderness. // In the long taking away, / hearing festival sounds / through all the streets of the city.”). From Wilkes-Barre to […]
Nancy Schwoyer and Rosemary Haughton
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterThe word 'Community' is the core of Wellspring's Mission Statement, created in 1987. That word expresses the way in which Wellspring's life, work and decisions developed in a relational organizational model, with an ethic of friendship and the practice of mutuality. In the book about Wellspring that Rosemary and Nancy are writing, they explore how […]
JoeAnn Hart and Greg Gibson
Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, United StatesIn July 1976, a twenty-four-year-old white woman, Margo Olson, was found in a shallow grave in Stamford, Connecticut, with an arrow piercing through her heart. A few weeks later, Howie Carter, her black boyfriend, was killed by the police. Howie and Margo’s interracial relationship held a distorted mirror to the author’s own, with Howie’s best […]
Mary Baine Campbell
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterMary Baine Campbell is a Cambridge-based poet and scholar (of literature and the histories of travel, geography, science and utopia), as well as a climate activist. Her publications include The Witness and the Other World, Wonder and Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe and poetry collections The World, the Flesh, and Angels and Trouble, […]
Walt Whitman’s 200th Birthday Party
Maud / Olson Library 108 East Main Street, GloucesterJoin us at the Maud/Olson Library for a celebration of Walt Whitman's 200th birthday! Wine, dine, and revel on the deck with us at the M/OL, as we celebrate the man and his work on the eve of his 200th birthday. His poetry will be available in the library to read, discuss, and enjoy. All […]
Open Mic
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester
Aine Greaney
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterÁine’s presentation will focus on writing personal essays--such as those published in The Boston Globe Magazine, Brevity, The New York Times Modern Love series and other publications. She will discuss the risks and rewards of writing about our personal experiences, including why and how she wrote and published her just released essay collection (about immigration) 30+ […]