A gallery conversation with Peter Anastas and David Rich on the life and work of writer Vincent Ferrini. This program is free for members or with Museum admission. Space is limited, reservations are required.

Anastas and Rich, both established writers in their own right, will lead a discussion on Ferrini (1913-2007), the poet who lived and worked in Gloucester for sixty years and whose literary magazine – Four Winds – gave its name to the current Cape Ann Museum exhibition of avant-garde art from 1950s Rocky Neck, an era in the Rocky Neck art scene that saw Ferrini as a central player.

As a compliment to the Four Winds exhibition, the two will reprise their talk presented at the Gloucester Writers Center last spring, which marked the occasion of Ferrini’s 100th birthday. Drawing from the Museum’s archives they will offer new research on his childhood, his political activities in Lynn, his literary friendships and rarely-seen volumes of his early poetry.

Press Release: Reading Ferrini (September 3, 2013)

Image credit: Vincent Ferrini with Peter Anastas. 1970. Courtesy of the Cape Ann Museum Archives.