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Thank you Gloucester Writers Center!

Amiri Baraka has a brilliant mind. Thank god for sharing his work 👌✨🙏🙌

Amazing, Lise. Brilliantly told.

Excellent video - thank you for posting! Since I missed being there in person (thought I had bought tickets but didn't) this was a good replacement. I enjoyed all of the stories.

"For my yoke is easy, my Burden is Light"

Rosemary helped me through a major transition in my life, way back in the late 70s when Lothlorien played a significant part in our return from Zambia to Scotland. I still live by those learned values to this day and at age 81, am still practicing Radical Hospitality on a daily basis. I "welcome in the Stranger to make a Friend"...and currently a young Mum and her two children are gracing my home with their presence and countless Refugees and Asylum Seekers have found refuge under my roof to our mutual benefit and enrichment. They are all welcome, "ben the hoose". A'ho! 🌿🙏🌿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💖🕊️🌈

Oh wow!! She is still going! 🌿🙏🌿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💖🕊️🌈

A wonderful talk all the way around. I especially appreciated her negative remarks about the Tom Clark bio of Olson . I remember after reading that book ,I thought to myself that it was the only literary bio that I had ever read that diminished my interest and enthusiasm for the subject... Funny that Poetry wars are so intense that Ann Charters, a renowned scholar ,needed "permission" to enjoy Eliot after years of principled aversion -and a testimony to her honesty, courage,and lack of pretension that she publicly chides herself for that, and expresses relief that she is now free of that burden ..

Meagan Frat, I feel your heart!

Thank you so much for posting this night of wonderful Tale Tellers. Brian King is so funny, great story teller ❤😅❤

It's so wonderful to see Linda. I took a poetry course from Linda at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She taught me to find an inner love for poetry.

Awesome storytellers! Great tradition for Gloucester Writers Center.

poets are in the eternity

❤❤Beautiful poem and story about our mother and our lives in Japan. Thank you for writing the poem and reciting it for me, makes me understand our family life better. I love you dearly, you always there for me in my childhood..thank Love you dearly. Your little sister Liz

I love these Poems and stories, Ty.

I love your stories! I'm JC from Endicott Mexico

thanks Ross! Great to hear from you, an art lover as well as a poetic soul.

This is so rich, Jay, as you weave memory, love, human connection such that Vermeer and your mother have a special understanding. Into this you bring so much heart and imagination, and philosophy!

sure would be lovely to have the whole lecture made available here, more Olson, more DiPrima always welcome, always wonderful

Seemed very interesting but just could not hear well just in the beginning. HANG ON and it will be audible.

GWC Board Member Dorothy Nelson was in the audience and wrote. "Martha Collins read from her new book, Casualty Reports. This could be her eleventh book. Luminous, like some of Mary Bushinger's recent work, the pages contain various poetic forms representing "A lament for the casualties of corporate destruction, racism, war, and personal loss." Martha has always been boldly but not domineeringly political in her world outlook and perspectives. It was a stunning evening of her poetry. New poems, new revelations, punctuated with lyric sensibility and pointed diction, on my, there is so much to this new book. I can't wait to get deeper into it. She is a Pulitzer Prize winner in my estimation."

Thank you GWC and Krystal for this heartfelt talk. Well done. Thinking of Ken, my fellow Clam, and the good times we shared in music.

photo of olson & ginsberg by leni sinclair

Candid real creative wonderful !!!!

THANK YOU ..FOR WRITING THE HISTORY, AND THANK THE GWC for honoring the tradition of Protest songs by having local musicians sing them. Protest songs are people's songs .. and people;e including celebrities, should sing them... OMG, WIllie again made me smile as he always did when I would see him sing in the '*0's

No words, just likessssssss. Get to the top fast = *promo sm*!!!

Wonderful film, thoughtfully and "artfully" made.

If I had a choice between the confusion of identifying the truth of myself who I am my language culture my food traditional ritual's old family stories ECT.. I would take that over reparations . From 9 years of age I aimed to be my best and seek my life dreams I tried all these things under the darkest of little to know opportunities, being like all the kids that look just like me fatherless and broken hearted into poverty and it was normal. I'm 60 now and I'm still fatherless broken hearted 1 son dead from fentanyl another son in prison sense 17 now 41 under the black law another dysfunctional son 30 and on drugs and my daughter who's 3 baby daddy and their fatherless to still I will never know my truth a story to leave my children or grandchildren we r slaves

enjoy the show

enjoy the show

Looking forward to watching this tonight.

before reading "Braces Cove" Jay added some wonderful context to the beauty and uniqueness of that place for himself and his late wife.. Magical!!!

I'm a visitor from another state but I really enjoy listening to FishTales. Storytelling needs to be revived!

this is one long marvel. thank you for enriching our lives with these materials...

Hi there, I have an URGENT poetic question regarding a Master's essay I am writing. I am looking at the English translation by Andrew Lang of the French poem Les Roses de Saadi (Marceline Desbordes-Valmore). The original is has an alexandrine metre - as is typical of classical French prosody - and 3 tercets. However, I am struggling to define the metre of the English translation. Could you help me? Here it is: "This morning I vowed I would bring thee my Roses, They were thrust in the band that my bodice encloses, But the breast-knots were broken, the Roses went free. The breast-knots were broken; the Roses together Floated forth on the wings of the wind and the weather, And they drifted afar down the streams of the sea. And the sea was as red as when sunset uncloses, But my raiment is sweet from the scent of the Roses, Thou shalt know, Love, how fragrant a memory can be." It seems to be a mixture of 12 and 13 syllables, but I'm not sure how to define it exactly. I recognise a strong four beat, but I am not a prosody expert at all. Any help would be appreciated, thank you!

Very good, very good

Your stories are poems in themselves. Thanks for sharing this with me.

I had been wondering the significance of the 6/6 poems. Very interesting reason Jim!

Storytelling needs to be kept alive. I wish we had a community theater.

thank god all these jerks are dead good f-ing riddance!!!

Maud was a major a-hole, total jerk, personality disorder imo.

This is a great gift.

easy to get the other ones to get a ride home and I love it and you too and I hope it so I will be there in a bit I love you too I love you too I can always come back to you and miss the other for a great night

Thanks, Emily

I love Vincent and I love this film.

& Brian is so freakin great !!!

Amazing work Dr. Margo Shea. Looking forward to the read. Your arguments or shares in this interview are so clear and engaging; thank you for making it plain for us outside-outsiders :)

Leontine Hartzell's introduction and 5 minute story starts at 15:40. Enjoy!!

Wonderful poem. It does what I always love in a poem, with one line suddenly snapping everything into place.

Rock on (or Jazz on) Charles. And a shoutout to Henry Ferrini, too. Well done!