BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Gloucester Writers Center - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Gloucester Writers Center REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Halifax BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20180311T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20181104T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20190310T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20191103T050000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT DTSTART:20200308T060000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:20201101T050000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190925T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190925T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T082205 CREATED:20190730T145304Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190919T173819Z UID:9558-1569439800-1569445200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Ellen Wilkin DESCRIPTION:Ellen Wilkin has been writing for 45 years as a poet and essayist\, as a technical writer and editor in the computer industry\, and as a novelist. Several of her poems were published in THE POETRY JAM SESSIONS\, a collection she also edited. Her current project is a science fiction/time travel novel.  She also runs a poetry salon in Longmont\, Colorado. \nEllen grew up in western New York and now lives in Colorado with her husband\, Dave. Ellen travels often because of her writing. She visited Manhattan and Cambridge in 2001 to do research for a possible biography of Mary Coyle Chase (who wrote the Pulitzer-Prize-winning play HARVEY). In 2011\, Ellen toured Europe for eight weeks to learn about the people and the settings of her in-progress time travel novel. \nIn April 2018\, Ellen collaborated with artist Julie Clement in ArtSpeak\, a project run by Colorado artist Annette Coleman. Ellen’s resulting poem\, “I Am Art (In Memory of Vincent Ferrini)” was inspired by the short film by Henry Ferrini called Poem In Action: A Portrait of Vincent Ferrini. You can see the final project here: http://www.ellenwilkin.com/blog/2018/4/11/artspeak-collaboration-julie-clements-and-ellen-wilkin \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/ellen-wilkin/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Ellen-Wilkin-Bio-Photo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190911T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190911T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T082205 CREATED:20190827T152130Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190827T153546Z UID:9593-1568228400-1568232000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:College Essay Program Training DESCRIPTION: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 in with drafts in all stages. Sometimes they just want to talk about what they’d like to write about\, and that helps get them started. It is very rewarding work. The schedule is flexible. \nTraining for this year’s college essay season will be on Wednesday\, September 11 at 7pm at the Gloucester Writers Center. Let JoeAnn Hart know if you’d like to be part of the program this year\, and if you are able to make the training session. JoeAnn@joeannhart.com \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/college-essay-program-training/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190909T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190909T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T082205 CREATED:20190814T230159Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190814T230159Z UID:9573-1568057400-1568062800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Open Mic DESCRIPTION:Share this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/open-mic-45/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/openmicgeneral.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190821T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190821T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T082205 CREATED:20190730T150312Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190814T162206Z UID:9563-1566415800-1566421200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Eloise and Art Hodges DESCRIPTION:Eloise Weld Hodges grew up in Essex\, then moved in 1954 with her family to Dolliver’s Neck\, Gloucester.  As Associate Editor and feature writer for North Shore Magazine (1975-80)\, she wrote about people and places that illuminated that part of the world.  She will read from Wishbone\, a collection of essays about family events and related ruminations\, which she self-published last September.  She and her husband\, Art\, who have three children and nine grandchildren\, summer in Essex and winter in Boston.  \n \nBorn in 1935 Art Hodges grew up in Pittsburgh\, PA.  A graduate of Harvard College\, he is a retired investment advisor and a lifetime diarist.  His historical novel Will’s New World\, set in 17th century Taunton\, MA\, was privately published in 2014 and is available on Kindle. \n \nHe will read from two recently published novellas.  Knight Trail is a tale of two middle-aged brothers hiking a section of the Appalachian Trail in southern New England.  A 16th century Durer print on the wall of an inn presages trouble and even death for one of them.  Open Book Exam is a story of four couples who ponder the meaning of life over many dinners.  The eternal mystery: why bad things happen to good people.  And then bad things happen. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/9563/ LOCATION:Cultural Center at Rocky Neck\, 6 Wonson Street\, Gloucester\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IMG_5152-e1568914904708.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190814T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190814T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T082205 CREATED:20190727T124424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190727T124424Z UID:9549-1565811000-1565816400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Jane Keddy and Barbara Boudreau DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of fun and reading of three completely different kinds of books! Jane Keddy and Barbara Boudreau are both charter members of The Finish Line\, a writer’s group that formed in the fall of 2011 and continues today. Both women have published books\, Boudreau’s novel\, The Frenchman in 2013 and Keddy’s Serial Monogamy earlier this year. The third book is a sequel for The Frenchman called Death of the Frenchman\, currently in the publication process. Serial Monogamy\, a memoir\, tells the story of Keddy’s search for the perfect mate and nuclear family. She outlines relationships along the way with intimate detail and poignant humor. The book is interspersed with journal entries and Keddy’s silk screen art\, inspired by events in her life. The Frenchman and Death of the Frenchman are both page-turning capers that tell the story of Jean LaChance\, an infamous talented thief who meets his match in the bleak California desert in the form of a young mother and her three children. \nJane Keddy is a printmaker and textile artist who has lived on Cape Ann for 35 years. She is a member of Gallery 53 on Rocky Neck where she shows her prints and hand-painted and dyed silk scarves. Her memoir was seven years in the making and follows her life path from the late sixties to the early nineties\, as she searches for love and connection. \nBarbara Boudreau’s love of music and nature have guided her through life. With a background in nature and conservation\, interwoven with music\, she traveled throughout the world and lived for six years in Hiroshima\, Japan. She settled in Gloucester with her jazz drummer and sailor husband\, Al. Together\, they keep America’s original art form alive. She is a state regional interpretive coordinator\, and a Certified Interpretive Guide\, interpreting natural\, cultural and historic resources of Massachusetts. \nThe Frenchman\, Barbara’s first novel\, was begun on board their sailing vessel in the Bahamas. A sequel\, Death of the Frenchman is in the process of publication. \n  \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/jane-keddy-and-barbara-boudreau-2/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/keddyboudreau.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190814T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190814T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T082205 CREATED:20190721T022042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190814T225711Z UID:9536-1565811000-1565816400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Jane Keddy and Barbara Boudreau DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of fun and reading of three completely different kinds of books! Jane Keddy and Barbara Boudreau are both charter members of The Finish Line\, a writer’s group that formed in the fall of 2011 and continues today. Both women have published books\, Boudreau’s novel\,  The Frenchman in 2013 and Keddy’s Serial Monogamy earlier this year. The third book is a sequel for The Frenchman called Death of the Frenchman\, currently in the publication process.\nSerial Monogamy\, a memoir\, tells the story of Keddy’s search for the perfect mate and nuclear family. She outlines relationships along the way with intimate detail and poignant humor. The book is interspersed with journal entries and Keddy’s silk screen art\, inspired by events in her life. The Frenchman and Death of the Frenchman are both page-turning capers that tell the story of Jean LaChance\, an infamous talented thief who meets his match in the bleak California desert in the form of a young mother and her three children.\n\n \nJane Keddy is a printmaker and textile artist who has lived on Cape Ann for 35 years. She is a member of Gallery 53 on Rocky Neck where she shows her prints and hand-painted and dyed silk scarves. Her memoir was seven years in the making and follows her life path from the late sixties to the early nineties\, as she searches for love and connection. \n \nBarbara Boudreau’s love of music and nature have guided her through life. With a background in nature and conservation\, interwoven with music\, she traveled throughout the world and lived for six years in Hiroshima\, Japan. She settled in Gloucester with her jazz drummer and sailor husband\, Al. Together\, they keep America’s original art form alive. She is a state regional interpretive coordinator\, and a Certified Interpretive Guide\, interpreting natural\, cultural and historic resources of Massachusetts.  \n\n \nThe Frenchman\,Barbara’s first novel\, was begun on board their sailing vessel in the Bahamas. A sequel\,  Death of the Frenchman is in the process of publication.\n\nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/jane-keddy-and-barbara-boudreau/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190805T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190805T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T082205 CREATED:20190721T021757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190721T021757Z UID:9533-1565033400-1565038800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Open Mic DESCRIPTION:Share this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/open-mic-44/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190731T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190731T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T082205 CREATED:20190219T170312Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190716T151436Z UID:9000-1564601400-1564606800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Ann Charters DESCRIPTION:Ann Charters will be talking about how Charles Olson influenced her a young writer.  She met him in 1968\, after she had spent the years 1963-65 in the graduate English program at Columbia.  Her dissertation was about 19th century writers in the Berkshires\, with chapters on Melville and Hawthorne.  When she began to read Olson she was struck by his poem “Letter for Melville 1951.”  She will discuss this poem and then read her piece “Melville in the Berkshires\,” her response to Olson’s poem.  Olson’s example taught her to respond to a creative act with another creative act.  Olson’s advice has guided her writing since she met him. \nAmong other books\, Ann Charters has written and edited two books about and by Charles Olson in the 1960s\, compiled a bibliography of Jack Kerouac and wrote his first biography (1973)\, and edited ten editions of the college textbook THE STORY AND ITS WRITER (1985-2019). \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/ann-charters-2/ CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/olson_-_charters.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190724T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190724T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T082205 CREATED:20190210T051455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190714T150210Z UID:8979-1563996600-1564002000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Cathy Curtis on Nell Blaine DESCRIPTION:Cathy Curtis is the author of two previous biographies of women artists\, RESTLESS AMBITION: GRACE HARTIGAN\, PAINTER (Oxford University Press\, 2015) and A GENEROUS VISION: THE CREATIVE LIFE OF ELAINE DE KOONING (Oxford University Press\, 2017). Her next book will be a biography of the novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick. Curtis was elected to a two-year term as president of Biographers International Organization in 2018. Her website is www.cathycurtis.net\n\nALIVE STILL: NELL BLAINE\, AMERICAN PAINTER (Oxford University Press) is the story of an artist who believed she was at the top of her game in 1959\, when she traveled to Greece to paint. She had a great time . . . until she contracted the most severe form of polio and had to be airlifted to New York. A paraplegic at age thirty-seven\, she was determined to regain her skills. Her coloristically brilliant\, rhythmically vibrant style illuminated landscapes and still lifes that reflect her passion for the natural world. During the next three decades she would become a notable painter and one of America’s great watercolorists. In 1974\, she purchased a cottage on Ledge Road\, where she and her lover\, painter Carolyn Harris\, made the most of the splendid views available on Cape Ann.\n\nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/cathy-curtis-on-nell-blaine/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190720T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190720T150000 DTSTAMP:20260425T082205 CREATED:20190623T023743Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190719T193957Z UID:9456-1563613200-1563634800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Framing the Story: An Introduction to the Art of the Graphic Memoir DESCRIPTION:Framing the Story: An Introduction to the Art of the Graphic Memoir\n \nBefore we can put a single word down on the page\, we must first behold the mental image\, however fleeting\, that informs our meaning-making process. This is what makes the graphic novel such an incredible lesson to us as writers. It teaches us how to frame images in such a way as to be almost cinematic in our approach to storytelling. Frame by frame\, we see firsthand the decisions that go into telling one’s life story and this awareness cannot but improve our own writing process – regardless of the genre. After thoroughly unpacking David Small’s graphic memoir\, Stitches\, participants will be invited to tell their own stories – at first in pictures (no drawing experience necessary; we welcome stick figures) and later in prose\, all while discussing the difficult art of balancing the verbal & visual aspects of the form.\n\nJuly 20-21  9am to 3pm\n\nCost: $250\nMinimum of 5 participants – Max 12\n\n \nRegistration is closed.\n \n\nJulie Batten teaches in the English department at Salem State University and is the founder of the Glass House Shelter Project\, a grassroots organization that brings college courses into homeless shelters. She recently did a TEDx talk at SSU about her work with marginalized folks and the power of the written word to give us a renewed sense of belonging in the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgWZjOB_5Yg \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/framing-the-story-an-introduction-to-the-art-of-the-graphic-memoir/ LOCATION:Maud / Olson Library\, 108 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Classes,Events,Workshops ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/IMG_2390-e1561257105391.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190717T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190717T203000 DTSTAMP:20260425T082205 CREATED:20190625T152503Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190625T152503Z UID:9478-1563391800-1563395400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Wendy Fitting and Ellen Solomon DESCRIPTION:Share this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/wendy-fitting-and-ellen-solomon/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190713T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190713T150000 DTSTAMP:20260425T082205 CREATED:20190623T023246Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190710T025016Z UID:9453-1563008400-1563030000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Naming the World with Julie Batten DESCRIPTION:Naming the World – a weekend of Personal Essay based on Bret Anthony Johnston’s book.\nTo write well we must be able to “name the world” around us in such a way as to throw a new light on the ordinary\, to see the everyday through a different lens – one that measures the now on its own terms without preconception or expectation. On the first day of this two-day workshop\, we will use the prompts from Johnson’s book to explore all of the basic elements of crafting compelling personal essays including character and setting\, dialogue and narrative style\, etc. We will write (and write some more) and spend the second day workshopping and discussing the bounty of our work and of course\, revising! Come with your stories and personal observations and family yarns. Come with your muses and musings and courage enough to wrangle it all onto the page! You will leave on Sunday afternoon with at least one revised and completed essay. \nJuly 13-14  9am to 3pm\nCost: $250\nMinimum of 5 participants – Max 12\n\n \n\nJulie Batten teaches in the English department at Salem State University and is the founder of the Glass House Shelter Project\, a grassroots organization that brings college courses into homeless shelters. She recently did a TEDx talk at SSU about her work with marginalized folks and the power of the written word to give us a renewed sense of belonging in the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgWZjOB_5Yg \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/naming-the-world-with-julie-batten/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Classes,Events,Workshops ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/IMG_2390-e1561257105391.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190701T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190701T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T082205 CREATED:20190618T140110Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190618T140110Z UID:9438-1562009400-1562014800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Open Mic DESCRIPTION:Share this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/open-mic-42/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/openmicgeneral.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190626T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190626T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T082205 CREATED:20190210T050949Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190210T050949Z UID:8976-1561577400-1561582800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Patrick Donnelly DESCRIPTION:PATRICK DONNELLY is the author of four books of poetry\, Little-Known Operas (Four Way Books\, 2019)\, Jesus Said (a chapbook from Orison Books\, 2017)\, Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin (Four Way Books\, 2012\, a Lambda Literary Award finalist)\, and The Charge (Ausable Press\, 2003\, since 2009 part of Copper Canyon Press). Donnelly is director of the Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place\, Robert Frost’s old homestead in Franconia\, NH\, now a center for poetry and the arts. With his spouse Stephen D. Miller\, Donnelly translates classical Japanese poetry and drama. The translations in The Wind from Vulture Peak: The Buddhification of Japanese Waka in the Heian Period (Cornell East Asia Series\, 2013) were awarded the 2015-2016 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature\, from the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University. Donnelly’s other awards include a U.S./Japan Creative Artists Program Award\, an Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, the Margaret Bridgman Fellowship in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, and a 2018 Amy Clampitt Residency Award. Donnelly was 2015 – 2017 poet laureate of Northampton\, Massachusetts. His website is: \nwww.patrickdonnellypoetry.com \n  \nDonnelly will read from his newest book\, Little-Known Operas. The book includes two sequences alternating with other poems: one about Jesus (yes\, that Jesus—though Donnelly’s version of Jesus seems to be a gardener\, a Sufi\, an esoteric Buddhist\, an atheist\, a Japanophile\, a sufferer of ocular migraines\, and a fan of Federico García Lorca)\, and another about the opera singer Maria Callas. When Jesus introduces the topic of Callas (as one does)\, the Callas sequence branches off from the Jesus sequence\, and then\, absurdly\, recombines and argues with it. Donnelly and Stephen D. Miller will also read from their translations of Japanese poetry. \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/patrick-donnelly/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Patrick-Donnelly-3034.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190619T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190619T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T082205 CREATED:20190519T021353Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190602T021429Z UID:9237-1560972600-1560978000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Judith Wright and Tom Fels DESCRIPTION:Judith Wright was born in 1939 and is an artist living in Gloucester\, Massachusetts.  She became a Freedom Rider and was jailed in the Mississippi State Penitentiary in 1961. Later\, in 1964\, she spent a year in Meridian\, Mississippi working with her husband Sib in the Civil Rights Movement. \nActs of Resistance; A Freedom Rider Looks Back on the Civil Rights Movement  is a memoir telling the story of my personal journey from a teenager longing for a meaningful life and continues through my experiences during the height of the civil rights struggle in Mississippi.  It covers the Freedom  Ride\, my arrest in Jackson\, and my time in Parchman State Penitentiary.  Some of the many incidents I faced three years later in Meridian\, Mississippi\, both heartbreaking and uplifting\, fill the later chapters.  The despair\, the joy\, the victories and the failures—-they all are at the heart of my narratives.  The reader will encounter some of the people I worked with along with accounts of their bravery and suffering.  At the same time\, my own feelings fill these pages: I am telling the first hand story of what it was like for one person who was there. \n  \nLate in the summer of 1970 Tom Fels embarked on a voyage of discovery and self-exploration as befitted a 24-year-old in search of purpose and meaning in a world of political chaos and social disarray. At the time\, he was temporarily on leave from the farm commune in western Massachusetts at which he then made his home. He decided that he needed to find his personal bearings\, and set out to discover them on his own. A Tree With Roots is the story of that voyage. It takes the author to Paris\, Scotland\, and then again to Paris\, ending with the prospect of a happier\, more meaningful path ahead. The transcribed journal with its personal entries and letters is accompanied by explanatory text and enhanced with illustrations from the pages of the original journal. It is a book that is meant to be read and enjoyed\, a goal to which its large format is intended to contribute. \n  \nTom Fels is a curator\, writer\, and artist whose ties to Cape Ann go back more than fifty years. In May 2013 he was writer-in-residence at the Writers Center\, when he read from his second book on the era of the 1960s; A Tree With Roots is his third. \nHis art is represented on Cape Ann by the Jane Deering Gallery on Pleasant Street. Fels has worked as consultant and guest curator to a number of museums. His exhibitions have been shown at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu and the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. In 1986 he was named a Chester Dale Fellow of the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, and in 1998 a Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow of the Huntington Library. He has written widely on the arts. Since 2005 he has focused his research and writing on the era of the 1960s and its repercussions. Farm Friends was published in 2008\, and Buying the Farm in 2012. A Tree With Roots appeared in 2018. He is also the author of numerous articles and reviews on the era. \n  \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/judith-wright-and-tom-fels/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190612T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190612T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T082205 CREATED:20190519T021258Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190602T020338Z UID:9235-1560367800-1560373200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Aine Greaney DESCRIPTION:Áine’s presentation will focus on writing personal essays–such as those published in\nThe Boston Globe Magazine\, Brevity\, The New York Times Modern Love series and other publications.\n\n\nShe 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+ years after her immigration to the USA.\n\nOther topics include how to choose and edit our individual shorter pieces to create a book-length manuscript and how our own or our family immigrant histories inform our identities and attitudes in 21st-century America.\n\nThe evening will conclude with a brief reading from Greaney’s fifth book\, Green Card & Other Essays.   \n\n\nAine Greaney is an Irish-born writer who lives on Boston’s North Shore. A former Gloucester resident\, she has written five books and published and broadcast many essays\, short stories and features in publications such as Creative Nonfiction\, The Boston Globe Magazine\, Salon and WBUR Cognoscenti.\n\nHer personal essay collection\, “Green Card & Other Essays\,” has just been released (Wishing Up Press\, 2019). \n\nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/aine-greaney/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ainegreaney.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190603T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190603T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T082205 CREATED:20190210T045948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190210T045948Z UID:8972-1559590200-1559595600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Open Mic DESCRIPTION:Share this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/open-mic-43/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/openmicgeneral.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190531T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190531T193000 DTSTAMP:20260425T082205 CREATED:20190531T124713Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190531T124713Z UID:9312-1559323800-1559331000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Walt Whitman's 200th Birthday Party DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Maud/Olson Library for a celebration of Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday!\nWine\, 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 are welcome – attendance is free – but donations are welcome\, as they help us keep our lights on and our programs running.\nBring along your favorite Whitman literature to recite and discuss with fellow party-goers. \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/walt-whitmans-200th-birthday-party/ LOCATION:Maud / Olson Library\, 108 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:big event,Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/whitman.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190529T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190529T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T082205 CREATED:20190210T045725Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190519T020734Z UID:8970-1559158200-1559163600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Mary Baine Campbell DESCRIPTION:Mary 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\, as well as the chapbook Are Sin\, Disease and Death Real? She founded and for several years directed the creative writing program at Brandeis University\, where she taught until 2017.  This fall she will be the Kennedy Professor of Renaissance Studies at Smith.\nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/mary-blaine-campbell/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Photo-MBC-IEA-4428ChDelory-2018.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190522T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190522T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T082205 CREATED:20190210T045332Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190521T151932Z UID:8968-1558553400-1558558800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:JoeAnn Hart and Greg Gibson DESCRIPTION:In 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 friend\, Joe. Joe’s theory was that the police didn’t have any evidence to arrest Howie; operating on the assumption that the black man is always guilty\, they killed him instead. Margo’s murder was never   solved. \n  \nLooking back at what might have happened in 1976\, JoeAnn Hart discovers a Bicentennial year steeped in recession\, racism\, and unrelenting violence. Stamford was in the midst of urban renewal\, destroying historically black neighborhoods to create space for corporations escaping a bankrupt and dangerous New York City\, just forty miles away. Organized crime followed the money\, infiltrating Stamford at all levels. Hart reveals how racism\, misogyny\, the economy\, and corruption affected the young people’s daily lives\, and helped lead Margo and Howie to their deaths. \n  \nJoeAnn Hart is author of the novel Float\, a dark comedy about plastics in the ocean\, and Addled\, a social satire. She lives in Gloucester\, Massachusetts. \n  \n  \nSince the murder of his son Galen in 1992 Greg Gibson has been an advocate for sensible gun laws. His first book\, GONE BOY was\, in part\, a study of guns in America. Over the past few years he has concentrated on finding new ways of thinking and writing about the problem of gun violence. \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/joeann-hart/ LOCATION:Cultural Center at Rocky Neck\, 6 Wonson Street\, Gloucester\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/hartgibson.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190519T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190519T173000 DTSTAMP:20260425T082205 CREATED:20190423T134212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190430T151114Z UID:9164-1558281600-1558287000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Nancy Schwoyer and Rosemary Haughton DESCRIPTION:The 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 the lived community attracted more and more people who resonated with its vision and practice of social justice and shared it. They look forward to sharing these ideas and receiving feedback on May 19.\n\n\n\n\nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/nancy-schwoyer-and-rosemary-haughton/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190515T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190515T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T082205 CREATED:20190210T044956Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190210T045051Z UID:8964-1557948600-1557954000@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Jay Featherstone DESCRIPTION:Jay 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 Yokohama\, from son to father (“Feel my chest. It’s not a scar. It’s a letter /”)\, father to son (“Nights and years of wanting / you to be like the others.”)\, to mother\, brother and grandchild\, the poems in Glass remember and conjure as they speak intimately and without artifice to and through generations. The force of these unforced lines is breathtaking\, the subtlety of observation and thought\, incisive and often shattering. Glass holds the reader closely\, honoring both memory and life with a powerful authenticity (“I have not told everything—only enough / to keep from remembering wrong.”) \nJoan Houlihan \nThe speaker in these poems is anchored by experience – “I wake\, ancient\, tired of myself” – and\, at the same time\, reawakened to innocence by “the secret singing self.” While their settings range from Cape Ann to Yokohama\, Featherstone’s poems consistently trust the lustrous glow of memory to lead him in and out of darkness. In “Catholic Church Rejects Limbo (Reuters)\,” “a loose thread from the hem / of a cotton dress” takes him to “the vast rim of vanished children in the arms of unknown / nurses…” In “Bodhisattva\,” the poet’s father “hovers\, uninvited\, / on the unlit porch /of my brother’s dementia.” Pain inflicted by parents\, by teachers\, by age\, by love\, by history\, by fate – it’s all here\, and it’s all lovingly tempered by a poet who confesses\, “happiness / keeps interrupting me.” \nErica Funkhouser \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/jay-featherstone/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/glass-cover-1-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190510T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190510T213000 DTSTAMP:20260425T082205 CREATED:20190210T033751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190416T144642Z UID:8940-1557516600-1557523800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Fish Tales: Radio Days DESCRIPTION:Get tickets here! \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/fish-tales-10/ LOCATION:Gloucester Stage Company\, 267 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, MA\, 01930\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/FishTales-RadioDaze2-1-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190508T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190508T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T082205 CREATED:20190210T034315Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190428T033823Z UID:8944-1557343800-1557349200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Don Wellman and Cheryl Clark Vermeulen DESCRIPTION:Donald 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\, devoted to topics bearing on postmodern poetics. Books of poetry in translation include Emilio Prados\, Enclosed Garden\, (Lavender Ink / Diálogos 2013); Antonio Gamoneda\, Description of the Lie (Talisman 2014) and Gravestones\, (UNO Press 2009). His translation of Roberto Echavarren’s The Espresso Between Sleep and Wakefulness is from Cardboard House (2016). His translation of Echavarren’s The Virgin Mountain is from Lavender Ink (2017). A translation of Néstor Perlongher’s Cadavers is from Cardboard House (2018). Recent critical work includes Albiach / Celan: Reading Across Languages (Annex 2017). His Expressivity in Modern Poetry is from Fairleigh Dickinson March 2019. \n Cheryl Clark Vermeulen’s chapbooks include Dead-Eye Spring and This Paper Lantern. Her poems\, translations\, and poetry reviews appear in Caketrain\,The Drunken Boat\, Jubilat\, Tarpaulin Sky\, Third Coast\, Two Lines\, Interim\, DIAGRAM\, EOAGH\, among others\, and the anthology Connecting Lines: New Poetry from Mexico. She is an Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts at MassArt\, where she founded the creative writing minor\, and Poetry Editor at Pangyrus. She lives in Jamaica Plain with her family. \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/don-wellman-and-cheryl-clark-vermeulen/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/wellmanverm.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190506T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190506T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T082205 CREATED:20190210T042253Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190210T042253Z UID:8953-1557171000-1557176400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Open Mic DESCRIPTION:Share this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/open-mic-41/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190505T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190505T190000 DTSTAMP:20260425T082205 CREATED:20190420T204709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190420T204709Z UID:9161-1557075600-1557082800@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Gerrit Lansing's Moon Birthday DESCRIPTION:Come remember and celebrate Gerrit Lansing with poems\, song and stories. \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/gerrit-lansings-moon-birthday/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/oneinthecompany.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190505T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190505T150000 DTSTAMP:20260425T082205 CREATED:20190420T204121Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190420T204121Z UID:9158-1557061200-1557068400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Hollywood Calls! From Bestselling Book to Big Screen Sensation DESCRIPTION:  \nOn Sunday\, May 5\, from 1 to 3 p.m.\, Literary Cape Ann presents three of our region’s best-selling authors sharing stories about how their books became popular movies and what that career-changing experience was like. Our panelists are Rodman Philbrick\, author of “Freak the Mighty\,” a middle grade book still taught in schools and made into the movie\, “The Mighty”; Stephen McCauley\, author of “The Object of My Affection” that became the movie of the same name; and Andre Dubus III\, whose Oprah book club selection\, “The House of Sand and Fog\,” was also made into a movie. At the Cape Ann Cinema & Stage in downtown Gloucester. Free. Book sales and signing after the discussion. Co-sponsored by the Gloucester Writers Center and Bach Builders. \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/hollywood-calls-from-bestselling-book-to-big-screen-sensation/ LOCATION:Cape Ann Cinema and Stage\, 21 Main Street\, Gloucester CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Bestseller-to-Big-Screen-poster-3.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190504T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190504T160000 DTSTAMP:20260425T082205 CREATED:20190420T203602Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190420T203636Z UID:9154-1556982000-1556985600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Artweek: What Holds Us Together DESCRIPTION:A mosaic is made of many pieces together\, as is our fine city. Three organizations are collaborating to present The Mosaic that is Gloucester: MosaicGloucester; Maritime Gloucester; and the Gloucester Writer’s Center. In Part 3 of the event\, The Gloucester Writers Center and The Maud/Olson Library will present What Holds Us Together: This Place in Poetry to celebrate Gloucester’s literary legacy through the poetry of its most well-known poets: Charles Olson\, Vincent Ferinni\, Gerrit Lansing\, and T.S. Elliot. A Gloucester poet will read selections and a discussion will follow. \n\n\n$5 admission admits attendees to any portion of the event — part 1\, part 2\, part 3\, or the entire event. \n\nArtweek \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/artweek-what-holds-us-together/ LOCATION:Maritime Gloucester\, Harbor Loop CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/artweek.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190501T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190501T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T082205 CREATED:20190210T044208Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190331T022548Z UID:8962-1556739000-1556744400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Neeli Cherkovski DESCRIPTION:Neeli Cherkovski was horn in Los Angeles and has Lived in San Francisco since 1974.  He is the author of many books of poetry and prose and books translated into Turkish\, German\, Italian\, and Spanish.  He is recipient of a PEN Josephine Miles Award for excellence in literature and the Jack Mueller poetry prize for 2018. His latest books poetry are “In the Odes” and “Elegy for My Beat Generation.” Cherkovski’s papers are at the Bancroft Library\, UC Berkeley. \nHe will read from elegy for my beat generation and from a new book\, Hyper. He will also be available to discuss poetics and lead conversation of same. \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/neeli-cherkovski/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/neeli.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190424T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190424T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T082205 CREATED:20190210T043504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190331T021632Z UID:8960-1556134200-1556139600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org SUMMARY:Schuyler Hoffman and Ruth Maasen DESCRIPTION:Schuyler Hoffman has published two books of poetry: Words in a Foreign Language and The Spaces Between as well as the collaborative poetry-music CD Sacrifice. His work has appeared in The Café Review and in The Anthology of Post-Beat Poetry in translation in China. His new book Signal to Noise explores the myriad ways that meanings may develop in relation to non-meaning\, non-sense\, and noise. The title implicates the varying of ratios between these elements. \n  \nRuth Maassen has been writing poems about Cape Ann since she settled here in 1980. She grew up in western Michigan and studied at St. John’s College in Annapolis\, Maryland\, and Indiana University. For twelve years she served as poet laureate of Rockport. Her Picking Raspberries collection was in the Folly Cove chapbook series. Ruth’s poems aspire to clarity and wit\, with a wide range of subjects\, moods\, and forms\, always with a strong connection to the everyday. \nShare this:\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/schuyler-hoffman-and-ruth-maasen/ LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930 CATEGORIES:Events,Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/hoffmanmaassen.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR