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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190717T193000
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SUMMARY:Wendy Fitting and Ellen Solomon
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URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/wendy-fitting-and-ellen-solomon/
LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930
CATEGORIES:Events,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190713T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190713T150000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190701T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190701T210000
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CREATED:20190618T140110Z
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SUMMARY:Open Mic
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URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/open-mic-42/
LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930
CATEGORIES:Events,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190626T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190626T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T095219
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190619T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190619T210000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190612T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190612T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T095219
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190603T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190603T210000
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SUMMARY:Open Mic
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URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/open-mic-43/
LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930
CATEGORIES:Events,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190531T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190531T193000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190529T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190529T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T095219
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190522T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190522T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T095219
CREATED:20190210T045332Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190519T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190519T173000
DTSTAMP:20260425T095219
CREATED:20190423T134212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190430T151114Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190515T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190515T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T095219
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190510T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190510T213000
DTSTAMP:20260425T095219
CREATED:20190210T033751Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190508T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190508T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T095219
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190506T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190506T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T095219
CREATED:20190210T042253Z
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UID:8953-1557171000-1557176400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org
SUMMARY:Open Mic
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URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/open-mic-41/
LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930
CATEGORIES:Events,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190505T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190505T190000
DTSTAMP:20260425T095219
CREATED:20190420T204709Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190505T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190505T150000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190504T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190504T160000
DTSTAMP:20260425T095219
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190501T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190501T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T095219
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190424T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190424T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T095219
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190412T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190412T213000
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CREATED:20190210T032618Z
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UID:8935-1555097400-1555104600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org
SUMMARY:Synesthesia and the Fusion of the Arts. Martin Ray and Stephen Bates.
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nA program of photographs\, haiku\, and clarinet compositions originating from Halibut Point. \n  \nFriday evening\, April 12\, 7:30 at the home of Stephen and Isabella Bates\, 2 Masconomo Street\, Manchester. Seating 60. Reservations required\, (978) 526-1443 or clarone@comcast.net.  Admission is free. Donate $20 at the door to the Gloucester Writers Center\, receive a signed copy of Martin Ray’s Quarry Scrolls\, photographs and haiku from Halibut Point. Presented with support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. \n  \nWe experience Synesthesia when one sense stimulates another\, a source of creative pleasure that can be heightened\, liberated\, and channeled in diverse ways. In the Fusion of the Arts we seek to enjoy a conversational interplay of forms and responses to underlying aesthetic awareness. \n  \nUpon retirement from his career as a Cape Ann landscape gardener\, Martin Ray brought his focus to the natural and social history of Halibut Point\, where he has composed nearly three hundred weekly blog essays. His recent book Quarry Scrolls\, which generated tonight’s program\, is drawn from his Halibut Point photographs and meditations in haiku. Martin has also published Cape Ann Narratives of Art in Life featuring contemporary creativity. \n  \nStephen Bates deepened his integration of the arts during his career as clarinetist for the Opera House Orchestra of the Kennedy Center\, Washington\, D.C.\, where he made paintings exploring the relationship between art and music\, particularly inspired by Kandinsky and Scriabin. Since moving to Manchester with his wife Isabella in 2009\, Stephen has increasingly applied his innovations to sculpture\, and to teaching silk painting at the Ten Pound Studio in Gloucester. \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/synesthesia-and-the-fusion-of-the-arts/
LOCATION:2 Masconomo Street\, Machester
CATEGORIES:big event,Events,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190403T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190403T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T095219
CREATED:20190210T035429Z
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UID:8946-1554319800-1554325200@archive.gloucesterwriters.org
SUMMARY:Yonghong Gu and Joseph Torra
DESCRIPTION:Yonghong Gu is from Suzhou\, China. She is a visiting scholar at UMass Boston. She has studied history\, literature and business. She has worked in education and business. \n  \nJoseph Torra is a poet\, fiction writer\, editor and teacher.\n  \nBeing Exiled is a novel in progress by Yonghong Gu. She and Joseph Torra are currently translating the book into English. They will read from the novel\, both in Chinese and English\, and discuss the translating process.\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/yonghong-gu-and-joseph-torra/
LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930
CATEGORIES:Events,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190401T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190401T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T095219
CREATED:20190210T042110Z
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UID:8951-1554147000-1554152400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org
SUMMARY:Open Mic
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URL:http://archive.gloucesterwriters.org/event/open-mic-40/
LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930
CATEGORIES:Events,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190401T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190401T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T095219
CREATED:20190303T042512Z
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UID:9016-1554145200-1554152400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org
SUMMARY:Guided Memoir
DESCRIPTION:Guided Memoir: A small-group experience for new writers\n\nMake new friends and nurture your creativity as you write your life story\, two pages at a time!\n\nJoin a small group of 5-10 participants as we support and encourage each other through a powerful reading and writing program. Our focus is on writing and sharing as creative outlets for self-discovery\, so you will never be graded or critiqued.\n\nEach week we will explore our life story using a flexible theme such as:\n\n    • love & friendship\n    • family connections\n    • abundance & scarcity\n    • turning points\n    • values & spirituality\n    • homecomings & so much more!\n\nEach session meets for two hours. During the first hour we will jumpstart our thinking with poems\, excerpts from award-winning memoirs\, and fun exercises—all aligned with that week’s theme. We will also receive prompting questions proven to jog memories and open new windows for exploration. During the second hour we will share two pages of our own writing\, offered as works-in-progress\, and receive supportive feedback.\n\nThis group is geared toward brand new writers. The readings and exercises are particularly helpful for those encountering or seeking out a life transition\, but everyone can benefit.\n\nFacilitator: Claudia Filos is an educator and personal historian with experience in community building\, peer-supported learning\, and facilitated discussion. She has worked in both traditional and non-traditional educational settings including Harvard University\, Brandeis University\, and edX. She holds an MA in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies and is particularly interested in mythology\, hero narratives\, oral poetics\, and photography.\n7:00-9:00 Monday Evenings \nApril 1-June 3 \n$250 \nRegister here:\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/guided-memoir-2/
LOCATION:Maud / Olson Library\, 108 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930
CATEGORIES:Classes,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190327T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190327T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T095219
CREATED:20190210T043117Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190210T043117Z
UID:8958-1553715000-1553720400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org
SUMMARY:Brenda Coultas
DESCRIPTION:Brenda Coultas’ poetry can be found in the recent anthologies: Readings in Contemporary Poetry published by the  DIA art foundation\, What is Poetry (Just Kidding\, I Know You Know) Interviews from the Poetry Project newsletter\, (1983-2009) and Symmetries Three years of Art and Poetry at Dominque Levy. This fall Coultas was a featured blogger for Harriet\, at the Poetry Foundation.org and in Bomb\, Hurricane Review\, and other journals. Books include: The Tatters (Wesleyan)\, A Handmade Museum and The Marvelous Bones of Time (Coffee House Press). \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/brenda-coultas-2/
LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930
CATEGORIES:Events,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190320T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190320T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T095219
CREATED:20190126T174122Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190316T174100Z
UID:8911-1553110200-1553115600@archive.gloucesterwriters.org
SUMMARY:Linda McCarriston and Robert Booth
DESCRIPTION:  \nLike Vincent Ferrini\, poet Linda McCarriston is a native of Lynn. She has two sons and four granddaughters. It took her much longer to settle in Gloucester than it did Vincent (she treasures a copy of No Smoke that he gave her in 2002). Educated in Lynn’s Catholic schools\, she won some high-school writing prizes. On the day she was to receive a Boston Globe journalism award\, she was unable to get the afternoon off from her job and couldn’t attend the ceremony. She did get to the University of Alaska\, where she taught poetry for 21 years; and she did get to the National Book Awards in 1992\, for her second book of poems\, Eva-Mary\, which had won the Terrence Des Pres Prize. Her first and third books of poems\, Talking Soft Dutch\, and Little River\, are likewise still in print. She has published poems widely\, in The Atlantic\, Poetry\, and many other journals\, and has received fellowships from the N.E.A\, Vermont Council on the Arts\, and the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. She has also published prose\, especially on issues related to “the working class\,” and is proud to say that her work\, both teaching and writing\, has often gotten her into trouble.  \n  \n\n\n\n\nRobert Booth is a writer and the manager of a national mental healthcare nonprofit. He has written a few books of nonfiction\, including a feminist history\, The Women of Marblehead (2016); Mad For Glory (2015)\, about nation-building and imperialism in 1813; and Death Of An Empire (2011)\, about Salem’s demise as a world trading center (Boston Globe bestseller etc.). Booth is finishing one more book of history (Untamed Spirits\, about Marblehead and Gloucester in the 1600s) but has been overcome by post-factualism and has turned to writing poems\, fiction\, scripts for documentary films\, screenplays (Confession\, based on his Salem book)\, and plays (The Long Trick\, mainly about Gloucester). His hobbies are oil painting\, baking\, and candlepin bowling. He lives with his daughter and their cats and lizards in his native Marblehead\, and is trying to open a bowling alley in Salem. \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/linda-mccarriston-and-robert-booth/
LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930
CATEGORIES:Events,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190315T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190315T213000
DTSTAMP:20260425T095219
CREATED:20190210T033618Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190303T024842Z
UID:8938-1552678200-1552685400@archive.gloucesterwriters.org
SUMMARY:Fish Tales: Family Secrets
DESCRIPTION:  \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/fish-tales-9/
LOCATION:Gloucester Stage Company\, 267 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, MA\, 01930\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Readings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190313T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190313T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T095219
CREATED:20190126T175335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190213T215817Z
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SUMMARY:Otto Laske and Zvi Sesling
DESCRIPTION:Otto Laske was born in what is now West Poland (Wroclaw/Breslau) three years before the onset of World War II. His first poetry emerged in German at age 15\, perhaps as a result of war trauma and the return of his father from Russian prison camps when he was 11. After studies in music\, the social sciences\, and philosophy (Frankfurt School 1956-66)\, Otto came to the U.S. as a Fulbright student in music composition at New England Conservatory in 1966. Living in the U.S. led him at age 32 to writing in English\, which he continued into the middle 1990s. He turned from music to the visual arts when coming to Gloucester\, MA\, in 2010. \nOtto Laske’s poetic work consists of a large collection of German poems called “Silesian Word Smithy” (Schlesische Sprachschmiede) for which he is presently negotiating a contract with a publisher in Germany. His English poetry comprises four collections of over 100 poems called — from earlier to later — Tremblings\, Untold Harmonies\, Karman Poems\, and Renewal by Fire. Pieces from these collections have been published in multi-lingual journals such as Osiris since the early nineties. \nOtto’s writing practice was originally influenced by German expressionism (Gottfried Benn\, Paul Celan). In English\, it was open to many influences including algorithmic “sentence generators” in the 1990s. His artistic output is now part of the “Otto Laske Archive” comprising music compositions\, animations\, digital paintings and drawings at Texas State University\, San Marcos\, Texas. \nOtto’s reading will start with a few German originals and their translations and continue with selected pieces from his four English poetry collections. \n  \n  \nZvi A. Sesling\, Brookline\, MA Poet Laureate\, has published poetry in numerous magazines both in print and online in ten countries. Among the publication credits are: Slant\, Midstream\, Main Street Rag\, Prosopisia (India)\, Ibbetson St.\,  Saranac Review\, New Delta Review\, The Chaffin Journal\, Green Door (Belgium)\, Voices Israel (Israel) and Levure Litteraire (France). He has won several poetry prizes in Israel and was a featured poet in the Tenth Annual Jewish Poetry Festival and at First Light Night in Brookline\, MA. His poetry was used in the Spring Rain Poetry Festival on Cyprus in 2012. Sesling reviews for the Boston Small Press & Poetry Scene\, is Editor of Muddy River Poetry Review. He has been a featured reader in various venues in the Boston area and San Diego\, and in the Massachusetts Poetry Festival and the National Boston Poetry Festival. Sesling has done readings on local cable television and radio stations and was selected by Boston Poet Laureate Sam Cornish to read at the New England PEN Discovery Reading. He is author of War Zones\, which is nominated for Mass Center for the Book Poetry Award\, The Lynching of Leo Frank\, which was nominated for the National Jewish Poetry Book Award\, Fire Tongue and King of the Jungle\, as well as two chapbooks\, Love Poems From Hell and Across Stones of Bad Dreams. He has taught at Suffolk University\, Emerson College and Boston University. He lives in Chestnut Hill\, MA with his wife Susan J. Dechter. \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/otto-laske-and-zvi-sesling/
LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930
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SUMMARY:International Women's Day
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate International Women’s Day by reading writing by women.  Bring a short piece (up to 5 minutes) by a woman to share with the group\, or come to listen. \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/international-womens-day-2/
LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930
CATEGORIES:Events,Readings
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SUMMARY:Elicitor Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nJoin us as we celebrate the work of Gloucester High School students with the launch of the literary magazine\, the Elicitor.  Readers to be announced. \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/elicitor-launch-party/
LOCATION:Gloucester Writers Center\, 126 East Main Street\, Gloucester\, 01930
CATEGORIES:Events,Readings
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