The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
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Dorothy Nelson and Preston Hood: Writing Through
Dorothy Nelson and Preston Hood: Writing Through
Writing Through Preston Hood and Dorothy Shubow Nelson will read from their recent poems in response to each other's work, and share a few of Vincent Ferrini's and Charles Olson's poems as well. Open mic and refreshments afterwards. Dorothy Shubow Nelson’s poems have appeared in Polis IV, 2014; Human Architecture VII, 2009; Consequence Vol. I, […]
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Joel Dinerstein
Joel Dinerstein
Joel Dinerstein is the author of several works on the history of cool, including The Origins of Cool in Postwar America (University of Chicago, May 2017), Coach: A Study of New York Cool (Rizzoli 2016), and American Cool (2014). He was the co-curator of American Cool (2014), an acclaimed photography and cultural history exhibit at […]
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Peter Anastas and Bob Buckeye.
Peter Anastas and Bob Buckeye.
Robert Buckeye and Peter Anastas will read from new work in fiction and non-fiction, followed by a dialogue focusing on the writers and texts that have informed and inspired their writing and brought them to where they are now. Anastas will read from his recently completed memoir From Gloucester Out. Buckeye will read from […]
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Charles Olson Lecture: Ann Charters
Charles Olson Lecture: Ann Charters
Ann Charters, noted Beat Generation scholar, photographer, and Professor Emerita at University of Connecticut, Storrs, visits Gloucester to discuss her correspondence with poet Charles Olson. Beginning in 1968 with Charters' request for Olson to reflect on his "earliest enthusiasm for Melville," and continuing until late 1969, these letters traverse the final two years of Olson's […]
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Meet the Author Night: Anita Diamant
Meet the Author Night: Anita Diamant
Rescheduled for October 24 Anita Diamant, New York Times Bestselling Author October 24th from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm. The Azorean Restaurant, 133 Washington Street, Gloucester, Massachusetts Limited Number of Tickets Available Online ONLY. $50.00 per person, includes a wide variety of delicious tapas (cash bar) Proceeds benefit the Gloucester Writers Center […]
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Don Wellman and Michael Franco
Don Wellman and Michael Franco
Don Wellman's most recent publication is Albiach / Celan: Reading Across Languages (Annex Press, Spring 2017). He will read from recent translations of the work of Roberto Echavarren and Néstor Perlongher, both are crucial poets with respect to the development of experimental or neobarroco poetry from Latin America. He will also read from a new […]
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Laura Harrington
Laura Harrington
Laura Harrington, award winning playwright, lyricist and librettist, winner of the 2008 Kleban Award for “most promising librettist in American Musical Theatre,” has written dozens of plays, musicals, operas and radio plays which have been produced in 28 states, Canada and Europe, in venues ranging from Off-Broadway to Houston Grand Opera to the Paris Cinemateque. […]