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Ammiel Alcalay’s thoughts on his visit to the GWC in 2011
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 [...]
Anne Waldman on her stay at the GWC
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… [...]
Anne Waldman and Ambrose Bye at Cape Ann Museum on October 13th 2012
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A conversation with Paul Sawyer
A conversation with Paul Sawyer
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Call for POEMS OF VINCENT FERRINI
Were looking for previously unpublished poems of Vincent's for a 100th Anniversary book to be published in June 2013
Abby Cook reads 4 poems
Abby Cook reads 4 poems
at the Gloucester Writers Center
Second Annual Kids Poetry Reading
May 27, 2012
Gail McCarthy on Susan Deer Cloud
Read Gail McCarthy's article Native Roots Fuel Writer in Residence on Susan Deer Cloud in the Gloucester Daily Times
Poem in Action:A portrait of Vincent Ferrini
See the first 10 min.
Polis is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
See the first 10 min.
Morning Raga by Elizabeth McKim and Michael Siegell.
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
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Andre´ Spears talks about his involvement with the Gloucester Writers Center
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 [...]
Iain Sinclair
If you missed it live- see recording of Iain Sinclair's talk 10-15-11 in four parts
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Writers Center hosts Andrei Codrescu
Boston.com writes about how we celebrate Gloucester's literary past
Katie Peterson and Kate Greenstreet
Katie Peterson and Kate Greenstreet read at Gloucester Writers Center
Darcie Dennigan and Damon Krukowski read at the Gloucester Writers Center