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Infinite People to Know Fish

Maud / Olson Library 108 East Main Street, Gloucester

  FROM INFINITE PEOPLE TO KNOW FISH "The Authors are in eternity"             --    W. Blake                                             To be a gathering of attention toward the work of Vincent […]

Charles Olson Lecture: Ed Sanders

Cape Ann Museum 27 Pleasant Street, Gloucester

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, including the personal interactions of Olson with Ed Sanders beginning in 1962 and continuing until Olson’s passing in early 1970. Included will be a tracing […]

Dale Smith. The Circle of the Bee-Hive: The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson

Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester

Dale Smith explores the correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson as a pivotal moment in mid-twentieth century American writing, drawing on ideas of form and place in the making of poetry vs. what Duncan called "the mania that a nation is."   Dale Smith is a poet, critic and scholar of poetry and poetics […]