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Darcie Dennigan and Damon Krukowski read at the Gloucester Writers Center

By Max | Published: December 16, 2012
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GWC Video Archive: Martha Collins, Sam Cornish and Afaa Weaver: Let Nothing Slip By

By Max | Published: December 16, 2012
Posted in News, Video | Also tagged Afaa Weaver, Martha Collins, Sam Cornish | Comments closed

GMC Video Archive: Shahar Bram: A Lecture on Olson in Israel

By Max | Published: December 16, 2012
Posted in News, Video | Also tagged Olson, Shahar Bram | Comments closed

Ammiel Alcalay’s thoughts on his visit to the GWC in 2011

By Max | Published: November 9, 2012
  My stay at the Gloucester Writers House was filled with extraordinary and deeply layered meaning for me. Having spent a lot of time in Gloucester with my family, practically from birth to the mid 1960s, I haven’t had the opportunity since to spend a consecutive block of time in a place that has always [...]
Posted in Blog, Resident Writer's Blog | Also tagged Ammiel A, poetry, scholar | Comments closed

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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Anne Waldman and Ambrose Bye at Cape Ann Museum on October 13th 2012

By Max | Published: October 16, 2012
Posted in News, Video | Also tagged Ambrose Bye, Anne Waldman, Charles Olson, music, musician, Robert Duncan | Comments closed

A conversation with Paul Sawyer

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

Celebrating Vincent Ferrini and the Gloucester Writers Center

By steveb | Published: July 12, 2012
More than 100 people gathered at the Harbor Room in Gloucester recently for the 99th honorary birthday party for local writer Vincent Ferrini. Read the Beacons review of the celebration
Posted in News, Uncategorized | Also tagged GWC, Vincent Ferrini | Comments closed

Call for POEMS OF VINCENT FERRINI

By steveb | Published: July 10, 2012
Were looking for previously unpublished poems of Vincent's for a 100th Anniversary book to be published in June 2013
Posted in News, Uncategorized | Also tagged Vincent Ferrini | Comments closed

Abby Cook reads 4 poems

By steveb | Published: June 5, 2012
Abby Cook reads 4 poems at the Gloucester Writers Center Second Annual Kids Poetry Reading May 27, 2012
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Gail McCarthy on Susan Deer Cloud

By steveb | Published: April 24, 2012
Read Gail McCarthy's article Native Roots Fuel Writer in Residence on Susan Deer Cloud in the Gloucester Daily Times
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Poem in Action:A portrait of Vincent Ferrini

By steveb | Published: March 27, 2012
See the first 10 min.
Posted in News, Uncategorized | Also tagged video, Vincent Ferrini | Comments closed

Polis is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place

By steveb | Published: March 26, 2012
See the first 10 min.
Posted in News | Also tagged Charles Olson, review, video | Comments closed

Dorothy Shubow Nelson Review of Poem in Action

By steveb | Published: February 17, 2012
Posted in News | Also tagged review, Vincent Ferrini | Comments closed

Morning Raga by Elizabeth McKim and Michael Siegell.

By steveb | Published: December 13, 2011
This was our last event of 2011. Next year we look forward to panoply of the arts at the GWC.  Thanks to all who helped make the GWC a cultural force on Cape Ann.   Annie Thomas & Henry Ferrini co-directors
Posted in News | Also tagged Charles Olson, Elizabeth McKim, Michael Siegell, music, musician, video | Comments closed

Andre´ Spears talks about his involvement with the Gloucester Writers Center

By steveb | Published: November 20, 2011
I’ve been asked by Henry Ferrini and Anne Thomas to write a few words about the trajectory that led me to join them in the project of founding the Gloucester Writers Center.    I encountered Olson’s work late, sometime in the mid-1980’s,  in the course of determining the “area concentration” of my doctoral work in [...]
Posted in News | Also tagged Andre´ Spears, experimental | Comments closed

Iain Sinclair

By steveb | Published: October 17, 2011
If you missed it live- see recording of Iain Sinclair's talk 10-15-11 in four parts
Posted in News, Video | Also tagged Charles Olson, filmmaker, Ian Sinclair, memoir, psychogeographer, video | Comments closed

Writers Center hosts Andrei Codrescu

By steveb | Published: September 9, 2011
Boston.com writes about how we celebrate Gloucester's literary past
Posted in News | Also tagged Andrei Codrescu, Charles Olson, novel | Comments closed

Kirk Proclaims Olson, Ferrini Honorary Poets Laureate

By steveb | Published: February 6, 2011
Posted in Misc | Also tagged Charles Olson, Vincent Ferrini | Comments closed

Katie Peterson and Kate Greenstreet

By steveb | Published: December 10, 2010
Katie Peterson and Kate Greenstreet read at Gloucester Writers Center
Posted in Video | Also tagged Kate Greenstreet, Katie Peterson, video | Comments closed
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