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136 episodes with gloucester writers center
A reading from spoKe six including David Rich reading from his essay on Gerrit Lansing, James Cook reading from his essay on Sam Cornish, poems by John Mulrooney, Jim Dunn and Amanda Cook. Hosted by Karina Van Berkum and Kevin Gallagher. David Rich worked as the poet Gerrit Lansing’s archivist from 2017 to 2018, […]
Novelist and short story writer Andre Dubus III’s seven books include the New York Times’ bestsellers House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie. His most recent novel, Gone So Long, has received starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly and Library Journal and has been named on many “Best Books” lists, including selection for The Boston Globe’s “Twenty Best Books of 2018” […]
Stephen Kalaghan is a long time Cape Ann area resident, having lived in Gloucester, MA and Rockport, MA since 1990. Originally from Weymouth, MA, he is a 1986 graduate of Cotting School, in Lexington, MA, and a 1994 graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Boston, where he earned a B.A. Degree, majoring in Theatre […]
Nadine Boughton, M.A., is a writer/poet, collage artist, coach and teacher. Her writing has been published in literary journals, trade books and presented in a number of venues. She studied writing and voice with teachers in the oral tradition, including David Whyte. Nadine’s visual art is represented by the Matthew Swift Gallery in Gloucester and […]
Patrick Barron grew up in the Pacific Northwest, lived in Northern Ireland, the Netherlands, and Italy for a number of years, and is now based in Boston, where he teaches at the University of Massachusetts. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in various journals. His most recent books are Towards the River’s Mouth (Verso […]
Mitch Manning is the author of city of water (Arrowsmith, 2019). He’s taught poetry in central China and his poems have been read in Basra, southern Iraq as part of the Boston to Basra Project. He teaches in the English and Labor Studies programs at UMass Boston, and is Associate Director at the Joiner Institute for the Study of […]
Ellen Wilkin has been writing for 45 years as a poet and essayist, as a technical writer and editor in the computer industry, and as a novelist. Several of her poems were published in THE POETRY JAM SESSIONS, a collection she also edited. Her current project is a science fiction/time travel novel. She also runs […]
Eloise Weld Hodges grew up in Essex, then moved in 1954 with her family to Dolliver’s Neck, Gloucester. As Associate Editor and feature writer for North Shore Magazine (1975-80), she wrote about people and places that illuminated that part of the world. She reads from Wishbone, a collection of essays about family events and related ruminations, […]
Jane Keddy and Barbara Boudreau are both charter members of The Finish Line, a writer’s group that formed in the fall of 2011 and continues today. Jane Keddy is a printmaker and textile artist who has lived on Cape Ann for 35 years. She is a member of Gallery 53 on Rocky Neck where she shows […]
Cathy Curtis is the author of two previous biographies of women artists, RESTLESS AMBITION: GRACE HARTIGAN, PAINTER (Oxford University Press, 2015) and A GENEROUS VISION: THE CREATIVE LIFE OF ELAINE DE KOONING (Oxford University Press, 2017). Her next book will be a biography of the novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick. Curtis was elected to a two-year term […]
Former GWC Board Member Wendy Fitting flipped a quarter to determine who would read first. Ellen Solomon won. Ellen’s chapter from her unpublished novel took the audience on an immigrant’s bumpy ride across the Atlantic from Germany to Charleston S.C. Wendy unpacked a story from her time working at the Fernald Developmental Center. (the […]
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, […]
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. Acts of Resistance; A Freedom Rider […]
Áine 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. Áine’s presentation focuses on writing personal essays She discusses the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Neeli Cherkovski was born 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 […]
Neeli Cherkovski answers some questions following his readings from Hyper and Elegy for my Beat Generation.
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 […]
Yonghong Gu is a visiting scholar at UMass Boston from Suzhou, China. She has studied history, literature and business. She has worked in education and business. Joseph Torra is a poet, fiction writer, editor and teacher. Being Exiled is a novel in progress by Yonghong Gu. She and Joseph Torra are currently translating the book into English. […]
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, […]
Like 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 […]
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 […]
JoeAnn Hart and Maureen Aylward hosted a group of self proclaimed “Women Warriors” who braved the snow, sleet to celebrate International Women’s Day at the Gloucester Writers Center. Here are a couple of readings from Elizebeth Enfield, Jane Keddy and Susan Steiner.
We celebrate the work of Gloucester High School students with the launch of the literary magazine, the Elicitor. Readers include: Willa Brosnihan, Katherine Bevins, Fisher LeVasseur, Emma Killian, Natasha Baumgartel, Autumn Marie Silva, Madison Laing, Gilad Gerber, Abby Cook, and Mila Barry. Special thanks to every contributor to The Elicitor and Amanda Cook
Dan Wilcox is the host of the Third Thursday Poetry Night at the Social Justice Center in Albany, N.Y. and is a member of the poetry performance group “3 Guys from Albany”. As a photographer, he claims to have the world’s largest collection of photos of unknown poets. He has been a featured reader at […]
The Gloucester Writers Center invites members of two long-standing Rockport writing groups to share their work. With readings by Connie Komack, Joe Muzio, Chuck Francis, Caroline Haines, Jean Keith, Holly Herring, and Joe Rukeyser.
The finale of a four part series on Vincent Ferrini at the Maud-Olson Library (February 7th)
Jennifer Martelli is the author of My Tarantella (Bordighera Press). Most recently, her work has appeared in Tinderbox Poetry, The Bitter Oleander, Sugar House Review, The Baltimore Review, and The Superstition Review. She has been nominated for both the Pushcart and Best of the Net Prizes and is the recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant for Poetry. She is […]
The third of a four part series on Vincent Ferrini at the Maud-Olson Library (January 31st)
Part two of a four part series on Vincent Ferrini at the Maud-Olson Library (February 7th) Before Gloucester focuses on City College of New York’s “Lost and Found” series. Ammiel Alcalay talks about unpacking Vincent Ferrini’s life before moving to Gloucester. Part one was not recorded (January 17th)
Community members share a poem they have been given as a gift, a poem given to them as a gift, or a poem dedicated to someone to share as we enter the season of giving. Featured readers in order of appearance: Jay Featherston, Annie Thomas, George Story, Kate Seidman, Henry Ferrini, Dorothy Nelson, Anita Pandolfe, […]
Randy Ross is a Somerville-based writer, lecturer, and performer. His one-man show “The Chronic Single’s Handbook” has been featured at theater festivals in the U.S., Canada, and Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2007, he took a trip around the world. The novel and one-man show were inspired by the trip.
A look at Charles Olson through the works of Kate Colby, Amanda Cook and Kate Tarlow Morgan
An evening to honor Veterans Day and those who have served. Featured Readers: James Grigg, Poet, Viet Nam Veteran & Heather Dupont, Poet, V.A. Health Professional
Broken Glory deals with the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Fifty years after there are still unanswered questions about whether his murder was the result of a conspiracy. Broken Glory is a graphic history told in epic verse of Bobby Kennedy’s life and times leading up to the fateful 1968 election campaign, with 100 illustrations by artist Rick […]
Sunday, January 15 The Gloucester Writers Center, Eastern Point Lit House, Rocky Neck Cultural Center and SeArts joined forces to host a local Writers Resist event. JoeAnn Hart, moderator Karen Ristuben Greg Cook Dorothy Nelson Janet Parsons, UU minister Peter Anastas Charlotte Gordon Mary John Boylan Sage Walcott Amanda Cook Chris Anderson Brian King […]
Sara Larsen is a poet living in Oakland. Her new book Merry Hell has just been released from Atelos. Her previous book, All Revolutions Will Be Fabulous, was released by Printing Press in 2014. Sara has performed her work widely, including at The Berkeley Art Museum, Grace Cathedral, LitQuake, and at Multifarious Array in NYC. Over the course […]
Sara Larsen is a poet living in Oakland. Her new book Merry Hell has just been released from Atelos. Her previous book, All Revolutions Will Be Fabulous, was released by Printing Press in 2014. Sara has performed her work widely, including at The Berkeley Art Museum, Grace Cathedral, LitQuake, and at Multifarious Array in NYC. Over the course […]
André Spears reads at the Gloucester Writers Center on September 14, 2016.
Writers in order of appearance: Jodie Stuart, Elizabeth Enfield, Trish Wilson (read by Amanda Cook), Amanda Cook, Joe Cardoza, Maureen Cusamano, Bobbie Wayne, Hilary Crowley
Danielle Legros Georges and Kevin Gallagher give a reading. 66 mins. Professor Danielle Legros Georges is Boston’s current poet laureate, an essayist, author, and translator, and teaches graduate art courses at Lesley University. Kevin Gallagher is an economist and an Associate Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and co-director of the Global […]
Joe Safdie reads at the Gloucester Writers Center on June 1st, 2016. 90 mins. Sara and Joe Safdie in the courtyard of the Gloucester Writers Center, June 1st, 2016. So to start, it’s one’s literal place – the ground – that we’re talking about, as Shakespeare wrote about his lover: “My mistress, as she […]
Gloucester Writers Center founding board member Kate Colby reads from her long poem I Mean.
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