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Short Takes With John Wooding | Unremarkable People, Remarkable Things

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Write Way Up | The Slave Trade On Cape Ann

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Independent Researcher Lise Breen has been digging into Cape Ann’s  complicated and cloaked history of participation in the Slave Trade of years. In this 28 minute interview she  talks about […]

Write Way Up | The Long Triage: Welcome to the War | A Reading with Kerry Sullivan

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Write Way Up | Henry Ferrini and Charles Coe

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Short Takes with Jay Cantor | Gloucester, MA

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Write Way Up | Peter Almond and Jay Cantor

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Novelist Jay Cantor and GWC Writer-in-Residence Peter Almond discuss the Practice of Fiction in a time of Pandemic and Racial Upheaval… Cantor is a writer of fiction and literary theory […]

Write Way Up | Peter Anastas and Fred Dewey

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On February 8, 2018 the Gloucester Writers Center presented Fred Dewey, author of The School of Public Life, in conversation with Peter Anastas, on his 1992 book, Maximus to Gloucester […]

A Conversation With Peter Almond and David Blight

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  David W. Blight wrote “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.” The 2018 biography of African-American abolitionist Frederick Douglass won him the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for History. This is a discussion […]

Many Thousand-Thousands Gone

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Everett Hoagland is an emeritus professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He was the first poet laureate of New Bedford, Massachusetts (1994–1998). His work has appeared in […]

A Conversation with Peter Almond and Greg Gibson

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Peter  Almond  is a documentary and narrative filmmaker and writer. He works  on public issues as a journalist and in public policy on both US and international projects.  At the […]

Fish Tales: Redo

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Fish Tales – Coming soon. This week at the Gloucester Stage we will produce our 1st social distance Fish Tales. REDO is hosted by GWC’s own M.J. Boylan and features […]

Almond on Almond

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Back in September 2019 before we all became contagious, Peter Almond stopped in to the Maud / Olson Library. Peter was curious about the library and wanted to spend some […]

Let the People Pick the President: Interview with author Jesse Wegman

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The Gloucester Writers Center Zoomed into production with our first socially safe interview with Advisory Board member Ken Riaf speaking with Jesse Wegman about his new book on the case […]

An Evening with Peter Almond

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Peter Almond is a documentary and narrative filmmaker, whose career includes work on public issues as a journalist and in public policy with both US and international projects. Current work include […]

Fish Tales: True Love

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Valentines Night was an evening of True Love, stories from the heart by Casey Breton, Isaac DaRowe, Lori Grande, Leontine Hartzell, Tai Irwin, Joel Kalinowsky, Shelley Morgan and Annabel Wildrick.

Which Side Are You On? with James Sullivan

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In Which Side Are You On, author James Sullivan delivers a lively anecdotal history of the progressive movements that have shaped the growth of the United States, and the songs […]

Stephen A Fredman: 2019 Olson Lecture

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Stephen Fredman is the author of “‘Difficulties Are Once More’: Charles Olson, John Dewey, and the Rhythm of Experience.”  Stephen’s talk considers three features of Olson’s writing–rhythm, history, and performance–as […]

Dogtown Writers Festival Keynote Address

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The inaugural Dogtown Writers Festival exceeded all expectations. Opening to a packed City Hall auditorium on Friday night, September 27, internationally renown, literary journalist, Sandy Tolan, set the tone. He […]

Walt Whitman’s 200th Birthday

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Join us in celebration of Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday! His poetry is read, discussed, and enjoyed.

Greg Gibson & JoeAnn Hart

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  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, […]

Fish Tales: Radio Days

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Fish Tales from 5/10 hosted by Tai Irwin, featuring stories from: Chris Anderson, Holly Harris, John McElhenny, Mike Mullaney, Lori Grande, Henry Ferrini, Chris Culkeen, Chris Kennedy, and Paul Sacksman.

Synesthesia and the Fusion of the Arts with Martin Ray and Stephen Bates

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We 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 […]

Excerpts from Otto Laske & Zvi Sesling

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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. After […]

Nancy Schwoyer and Rosemary Haughton: Reclaiming Home-Making

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Excerpts from the December 5, 2018 conversation about the book Nancy and Rosemary are working on. It is based on their experiences as founders of Wellspring House and their many […]

Joan of Arc & Dr. Dark in Bedlam’s Park

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Michael Sperber performs his one act play. He is introduced by Anita Pandolfe Ruchman

Fish Tales: OMG

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Fish Tales 11/30 with stories from: Casey Bretton, Iain Kerr, Janet Green Garrison, Phoebe Potts, Anne Deneen, and Adam Kuhlman and Musical Guest Corey Wrinn

8th Charles Olson Lecture with Ed Sanders

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This illustrated lecture, “A Life of Olson, with Glyphs,” will feature a sequence of projected color Glyphs with text and comments on key points in Charles Olson’s life and times, […]

Deadline

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Inspired by NPR’s “Moth’, Fish Tales is an oral storytelling event the GWC hosts throughout the year. This episode: true stories told live on the theme “Deadline”.

I am More

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We are more then our losses, our traumas, our diseases and our additions. We are lovers, and healers and dreamers and storytellers. Live stories based on the “I am More” […]

Fish Tales: Our Town

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Our Town, featuring: Phoebe Potts, Adam Kuhlmann, Cindy Hendrickson, Paul Cultrera, Sandra Williams, Virginia McKinnon and other guest storytellers. The 2018 Amira Baraka Scholarship was presented to Caroline Enos, a […]

Veterans Book Launch. The Inner Voice and the Outer World.

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The Inner Voice and The Outer World,   Writings by Veterans and Their Families from the Cape Ann Veterans Writing Workshop,  edited by Dorothy Shubow Nelson,  was published in December, 2017  by […]

Fish Tales: BADLUCK

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Nicole Richon-Schoel and Denise Bergman

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Diane di Prima 2010

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Fish Tales: I Fought the Law

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Janice Josephine Carney and Marc Levy

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    Janice Josephine Carney   was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and now lives in Largo, Florida. She is the author of several books, including her new book One Heart One […]

Iain Sinclair

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Greg Gibson introduces Gloucester Writers Center Writer-in Resident Iain Sinclair. Filmmaker/critic Sinclair lectures on Charles Olson at the Cape Ann Musuem, Gloucester, MA.

Olivia Kate Cerrone

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Here are a collection of excerpts from an oral history project about the lives of the “carusi,” child-aged sulfur miners, who worked at the Floristella Grottacalda mines in Sicily by […]

Vincent Ferrini

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  Vincent Ferrini Centenary Poet’s Cabaret 6-22-13   The Community reads selected works from Vincent Ferrini Poet Laureate Rufus Collinson hosts a reading of Vincent Ferrini’s poems by citizens on […]

Amiri Baraka

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On the street outside the Newark Symphony Hall, the largest American flag I’ve ever seen, hung from two fire-department ladders. A half a dozen golden hearses drove under the flag […]

Yorio Hirano

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Yorio Hirano spent twenty years translating Charles Olson’s Maximus poems from English to Japanese. He visited the Gloucester Writers Center in late summer of 2013 to speak about what he […]

Anne Waldman and Ambrose Bye

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Anne Waldman and Ambrose Bye perform at the 3rd annual Charles Olson Lecture at the Cape Ann Museum, October 13, 2012 in Gloucester, Ma. The program was sponsored by the […]

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