Born in Lynn, Massachusetts the poet Linda McCarriston is a joint citizen of Ireland and the United States. She is the author of several poetry collections, including Talking Soft Dutch (1984); Eva-Mary (1991), which won Northwestern University’s Terrence Des Pres Prize and was shortlisted for the National Book Award; and Little River: New & Selected Poems (2000). Featured on Bill Moyers’s PBS Series The Language of Life, McCarriston has received many honors for her work, including two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Grolier Prize. She lives in Gloucester.
Kathleen Aguero’s latest book is World Happiness Index. Her other collections include After That, Investigations: The Mystery of the Girl Sleuth Daughter Of,The Real Weather, and Thirsty Day. She has also co-edited three volumes of multi-cultural literature for the University of Georgia Press (A Gift of Tongues, An Ear to the Ground, and Daily Fare). She teaches in the Solstice low-residency M.F.A. program and in Changing Lives through Literature, an alternative sentencing program, and is a consulting poetry editor at The Kenyon Review.
Poets, K. Kerstin Prevallet and Linda Norton from the Eliot House read at the Gloucester Writers Center. The evening filled with ritual cleansing, deconstructed Platonic dialogs, and politically engaged pandemic memoir. Both artists delivered their work to an intimate and rapt audience before engaging us in a freewheeling conversation that included Eliot, Olson, the New Yorker, feminist art, Ireland, precarity, and the preciousness of language. Certainly a night we won't soon forget!
Thank you to Linda Bourke, Heidi Wakeman, Gordon Baird, Nick Anderson, Caitlin Featherstone,
Rick Gadbois, Nancy Carolyn Kwant, Bobbie Wayne and the dozens more over the last season for their Fish Tales. Special thanks to Jennifer Brown and Laila Goodman for their expertise. Our next season will start in the fall and will feature mother & son storyteller-in-residence team Sharron Cohan and Nathan Cohan.
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As “the Main Ingredient” says…”Everybody plays the fool sometime There's no exception to the rule Listen, baby, it may be factual, may be cruel. I ain't lyin', everybody plays the fool.”
Storytellers include: Brian Orr, Emily DaSilva,Mark Efinger, Ruth Sullivan,Kyle Linehan,Catherine Clark, Nathan Cohan, Coley Bryan and MC Heidi Wakeman
“Ancestors” from grandmothers to gravestones our storytellers spin poignant sometime comedic tales with;
Sharron Cohan, Brian Orr, Aubry Thelkeld, Sara Allen, Laila Goodman and MC Gabrielle Watling.
Jay Featherstone reads his chapbook-length ekphrastic poem “Vermeer Paints My Mother,” at the Windhover Center for Performing Arts, Rockport, MA. This 25 minute reading was produced by Henry Ferrini for the Glocuester Writers Center. Special Thanks to Adam Tessier and to Lisa Hahn and Duncan Holloman of Windhover Center for Performing Arts. To purchase a copy of the chapbook please go to https://fenwaypress.wordpress.com/
The Berlin International Literature Festival and the Gloucester Writers Center read selections of Salman Rushdie's book on the steps of Gloucester City Hall on Friday 9/30/2022 to promote freedom of literature and public speech as well as to show solidarity with Salman Rushdie who was the victim of a a horrific assassination attempt.
