The crucial questions of racism, labor rights, and wealth-and their complex and undeniable connections are taken up by LOOM. Kevin Gallagher’s poems are excavations and reclamations of difficult American history, elucidating prismatically the voices and sites of collusion in and resistance to the construction of our nation’s greatest institutions and our nation’s most awful crimes. […]

       

Jed Birmingham, Writer-in-Residence at the GWC and Burroughs scholar gets introduced by Greg Gibson last night.  He spent good time at the Maud/Olson Library which helped his thinking about the concept of an archive.    

André Spears reads at the Gloucester Writers Center on September 14, 2016.

Don Byrds reads on September 21.    

Writers in order of appearance: Jodie Stuart, Elizabeth Enfield, Trish Wilson (read by Amanda Cook), Amanda Cook, Joe Cardoza, Maureen Cusamano, Bobbie Wayne, Hilary Crowley