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Monthly Archives: October 2012

Anne Waldman on her stay at the GWC

By Max | Published: October 17, 2012
Gloucester Oct 12 Rain, the wind, the calibrations of memory and ethos: Water… and… Water… a Charles Olson thrust that could be in all of us, is, you know it…  Invoking the feminine:, snaky & fluid rhythm. Working people, people working…fish &…poetry? Writing that all the world Is redeemed, and history And all that politics…   [...]
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Intern’s Blog Post #5: Anne Waldman and Company

By Max | Published: October 16, 2012
  Hello all,   Last week we had the stupendous Anne Waldman and Ambrose Bye (her son) come and stay.  On Thursday, Henry took them to Lowell where Anne gave a talk and they all watched a production of Jack Kerouac’s play, Beat Generation.  This post, however, will be full of photos from the wonderful [...]
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Anne Waldman and Ambrose Bye at Cape Ann Museum on October 13th 2012

By Max | Published: October 16, 2012
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An excerpt from forth coming novella by Resident Writer Shahar Bram

By Max | Published: October 9, 2012
Here's an excerpt from a work-in-progress that I worked on while at the Gloucester Writers Center–it is a novella partly inspired by the surroundings and atmosphere in Gloucester. -Shahar Bram Kids’ laughter came from a distance, the joyous sound of children at play. Their voices rolled through the house like waves, washing his thoughts away. [...]
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Ed Sanders

By Max | Published: October 9, 2012
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Intern’s Blog #4

By Max | Published: October 4, 2012
  Another week passes here at the GWC, but honestly I think I’ll be talking about the last two weeks in this post, since I sort-of forgot to talk about anything but the “8 Plays for the Price of One” event in my last post. To start with, we were visited by the wonderful writer [...]
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A conversation with Paul Sawyer

By steveb | Published: October 1, 2012
A conversation with Paul Sawyer
Posted in Video | Tagged Charles Olson, Emerson, Margret Fuller, minister, Paul Sawyer, poet, Thoreau, Vincent Ferrini | Comments closed

Intern’s Blog #3: 8 Plays for the Price of One

By Max | Published: October 1, 2012
  For those that didn’t have the pleasure to attend, two Saturday’s ago (sorry for how horribly slow I am at getting these out) the GWC hosted “8 Plays for the Price of One” at the Rocky Neck Cultural Center.  To say that the night was a phantasmagoric conglomeration of some of the better things [...]
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