Author: Joey Ciaramitaro

Feb 8th around 5PM:

Hi Joey:
I saw this overhead about an hour ago – does anyone know what flew overhead? meteor? satellite??
Thanks!
Christy

When the cat chasing the other cat got bundled. OMG that’s some funny shit.

Joseph Curley recently presented a $1,000.00 donation from the Cummings Properties Employee Directed Giving Program to the SeniorCare Meals on Wheels Program.  Receiving the check are Scott Trenti, Executive Director of SeniorCare and Linnea Hagberg, Nutrition Program Director.  Last year SeniorCare delivered 131,649 meals to homebound elders and served 39,832 meals at senior dining sites in Beverly, Gloucester, Essex, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Rockport, Ipswich, Hamilton, Topsfield and Wenham.  The donation kicks off SeniorCare’s 2014 March for Meals campaign to raise awareness of the need for senior meals.  For more information visit www.seniorcareinc.org

Hi Joey
I am a GMG fan, and have a big event coming up, but due to my own tech-dummy problem, have not been able to get it on the GMG site.
Can you help me?
Unfortunately, it is coming up soon! (I’m sure you have heard this before)
I am a Co-Chair of  the Gloucester Coalition for the Prevention of Domestic Abuse along with Sunny Robiinson  We have joined the global initiative
ONE BILLION RISING FOR JUSTICE 2014 which is a flash-mob and speak-out about violence against women and girls.
Given the brutal headlines in the GDT this past week, we hope that lots of people will show up.
2013 was our first One Billion Rising event, and we were well supported by the community, the city and the police department.
This year, we hope to gather at least 100 people on Main Street!
Our event will be on Friday, February 14th, Valentines Day at 12:30, Cape Ann Savings Bank Park, 101 Main Street
Speakers will include:
-Mayor Carolyn Kirk
-HAWC Executive Director Anthony DiPietro
-YWCA North Shore Rape Crisis representative Sally Struble
-GPD Lt. David Quinn
-Staff from SeniorCare
I will emcee (Nicki Richon-Schoel)
There is great video at www.onebillionrising.org , but again- being tech-dumb can’t seem to figure out how to upload onto GMG!

ALSO:  THERE IS ONE REHEARSAL remaining to learn the dance to One Billion Rising.
It will be on Wednesday, Feb 12 at JANINES FITNESS, ROCKPORT.
Really hope you can help put this out to the community, and eternally grateful!
call me 978-853-3350 if need more, or text/email
thanks so much!
Nicki

The reading is at Trident Gallery, 189 Main Street, Gloucester, at 5pm, to be followed by a reception with light refreshments. Admission is free, but reservations are recommended (978-491-7785 or events@tridentgallery.com) so that the gallery can try to ensure adequate seating.
“We are lucky to have a poet of Galvin’s reputation coming to read on the North Shore.  As I know from experience, his poetry moves you immediately at a reading and then stays with you for years, growing in depth and importance, words you want to read and read again.” — Matthew Swift, gallery director

He grew up in the Boston area and lives in Truro, Massachusetts, a small town on outer Cape Cod.  He has published over 500 poems in magazines, textbooks and anthologies, including 21 poems in The New Yorker.  More details are at the Facebook event page https://www.facebook.com/events/508016975980702 .  A quotation from a book-length poem of his is on the image, a full recent poem is posted at http://wintermeditations.tridentgallery.com/, and another couple of excerpts are included in the latest Trident Gallery Newsletter if you join soon at TridentGallery.com.

Critical praise for Brendan Galvin:

“Few living poets are as memorable in their descriptions of the goings-on in the non-man-manufactured world.” — The New York Times Book Review
“Over the past four decades, in an era deeply suspicious of the relationship between language and external reality, Brendan Galvin has been quietly reminding us that the best poetry can deepend our understanding of the natural world and of each other.” — National Book Award statement
“Brendan Galvin is an essential presence in contemporary American poetry.” — Tar River Poetry
“If future literary historians wish to demonstrate an excellent late-twentieth-century non-formalist who writes directly and accessibly, let Galvin be their example….More toughminded than most of his peers, Galvin is also far less predictable.” — X.J. Kennedy, Shenandoah: The Washington & Lee University Review
“Brendan Galvin has an exciting gift for finding the unexpected word that proves miraculously perfect in its setting.” — The Atlantic Monthly

About Brendan Galvin:

Brendan Galvin is the author of sixteen collections of poems. Habitat: New and Selected Poems 1965-2005 (LSU Press) was a finalist for the National Book Award. Ocean Effectsappeared in fall, 2007. His translation of Sophocles’ Women of Trachis appeared in the Penn Greek Drama Series in 1998. Whirl Is King appeared from LSU Press in 2008. His crime novel, Wash-a-shores, is available on Amazon Kindle. The Air’s Accomplices, a collection of new poems, is forthcoming from LSU Press.

His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA fellowships, the Sotheby Prize of the Arvon Foundation (England), the Iowa Poetry Prize, and Poetry’s Levinson Prize, as well as the first OB Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Charity Randall Citation from the International Poetry Forum, the Sewanee Review’s Aiken Taylor Award in Modern American Poetry, and the Boatwright Prize from Shenandoah.

He has been Wyndham Robertson Visiting Writer in Residence in the MA program at Hollins University, Coal Royalty Distinguished Writer in Residence in the MFA program at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, visiting writer at Connecticut College, and Whichard chairholder in the Humanities at East Carolina University.

He lives in Truro, Massachusetts.

Joey,
Could you please post the following?
Hoping to put together an art exhibit featuring the fishing vessel Phyllis A at Marine Railway. Have seen many paintings and great photos around town. Please contact Gene Ehlert at lmegbe@yahoo.com (board member of Phyllis A Marine Association)
978-865-3049 or cell 603-788-4605
Thanks

Also, Gretchen Hill of SALTWATER MASSAGE will be there from 5 pm to 7pm!

http://www.goodmorninggloucester.com Do you get it?

David Calvo forwards-

Joey do you think we can promote this on the blog?  I organized this with Robert Newton and there will be a discussion after the movie

SPECIAL SCREENING – “Divorce Corp.” (Sun. Mar. 9 @ 4:00pm)

By Robert Newton on January 15, 2014

For roughly 50% of American families divorce is an unpleasant fact of life. Dealing with divorce and its effects destroys lives and bankrupts individuals every day. Family law, which barely existed for most of our country’s history, has morphed into a gigantic industry over the past several decades. Learn first-hand about the excesses and injustices rampant in the U.S. family court system. Do not miss the riveting film that offers a spotless condemnation of family courts across America. In interviews with top insiders and an array of litigants, a place aptly termed “the last fiefdom of lawlessness and tyranny,” is uncovered.

DATE:
SUNDAY, MARCH 9TH @ 4:00PM

TICKETS:
$10.00 ADULTS / $8.50 STUDENTS & SENIORS / $7.00 CINEMA MEMBERS