The Gloucester Writers Center will host quarterly Poetry Salons, allowing local audiences to engage with the work of established and emerging poets. Each event will feature two poets who will be invited to address the salon’s theme of “Poetry & Place” in their readings, with the goal of creating site-specific “happenings” that engage Gloucester’s literary, cultural and maritime history. Local and visiting poets working in a wide range of literary traditions will attract diverse youth and adult audiences from Cape Ann and beyond.