Open Mic at Gloucester Writers Center with Elizabeth Wolf
FIRST MONDAY OPEN MIC AT GLOUCESTER WRITERS CENTER
Bring your words. Bring your stories. Or simply come listen.
Join us the first Monday of every month from 7–9 PM for Open Mic at Gloucester Writers Center, hosted by Bob Whelan and featuring a different guest poet or writer each month.
This month’s featured writer: Elizabeth Wolf
Elizabeth S. Wolf has published 6 books, most recently Parenting in the Age of Columbine (2025). Her memoir Did You Know? was a 2018 Rattle Chapbook Prize winner. Rattle Summer 2022 featured her project with Prisoner Express. In 2023 Elizabeth taped readings at the White House, Supreme Court, and US Capitol with The Scheherazade Project. She was featured in Boston Literary Magazine in April 2026. Her work is on the moon with the Lunar Codex.
Want to read? No advance registration is needed. Just sign in when you arrive and bring a poem, short piece of prose, essay, story, or other work you’d like to share. Writers will be called in order, followed by a short intermission and a reading from our featured writer.
Prefer to listen? Come on in! There’s no need to sign in or participate.
All genres. All levels. Writers, readers, listeners and the simply curious are welcome.
📍 Gloucester Writers Center
🗓 First Monday of every month
⏰ 7–9 PM
🎤 Hosted by Bob Whelan
Come to read. Come to listen. Come be part of Gloucester’s writing community.
Open Mic at Gloucester Writers Center with Lisa J. Sullivan
FIRST MONDAY OPEN MIC AT GLOUCESTER WRITERS CENTER
Bring your words. Bring your stories. Or simply come listen.
Join us the first Monday of every month from 7–9 PM for Open Mic at Gloucester Writers Center, hosted by Bob Whelan and featuring a different guest poet or writer each month.
This month’s featured writer: Lisa J. Sullivan
Lisa J. Sullivan is a Massachusetts native who holds an MFA in Poetry from the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program, where she was a Kurt Brown Memorial Fellow. Her poems and book reviews have appeared in The Comstock Review, Evening Street Review, The Arts Fuse, Third Wednesday, Common Ground Review, and elsewhere. She was the United States winner of The Poetry Project–Ireland in collaboration with the Academy of American Poets and was an Adrian Tinsley Program Creative Grant recipient. Lisa is the Art Editor for Lily Poetry Review and a Poetry Editor for Pink Panther Magazine. Her debut poetry collection, Theory of Impact, was published in 2026 by Lily Poetry Review Books.
Want to read? No advance registration is needed. Just sign in when you arrive and bring a poem, short piece of prose, essay, story, or other work you’d like to share. Writers will be called in order, followed by a short intermission and a reading from our featured writer.
Prefer to listen? Come on in! There’s no need to sign in or participate.
All genres. All levels. Writers, readers, listeners and the simply curious are welcome.
📍 Gloucester Writers Center
🗓 First Monday of every month
⏰ 7–9 PM
🎤 Hosted by Bob Whelan
Come to read. Come to listen. Come be part of Gloucester’s writing community.
Open Mic at Gloucester Writers Center
FIRST MONDAY OPEN MIC AT GLOUCESTER WRITERS CENTER
Bring your words. Bring your stories. Or simply come listen.
Join us the first Monday of every month from 7–9 PM for Open Mic at Gloucester Writers Center, hosted by Bob Whelan and featuring a different guest poet or writer each month.
This month’s featured writer: John Burciaga
John is Poet in Residence for Newburyport Art and founder of Poetry In Public Places. His book, Poetry That Matters, was released in 2025, with his next book due later this year.
Want to read? No advance registration is needed. Just sign in when you arrive and bring a poem, short piece of prose, essay, story, or other work you’d like to share. Writers will be called in order, followed by a short intermission and a reading from our featured writer.
Prefer to listen? Come on in! There’s no need to sign in or participate.
All genres. All levels. Writers, readers, listeners and the simply curious are welcome.
📍 Gloucester Writers Center
🗓 First Monday of every month
⏰ 7–9 PM
🎤 Hosted by Bob Whelan
Come to read. Come to listen. Come be part of Gloucester’s writing community.