Maud/Olson Library Steering Committee
| André Spears | André Spears, Ph.D. (Comparative Literature), is a co-founder of the Gloucester Writers Center, the Director of the Maud / Olson library and a senior editor at Dispatches from the Poetry Wars. The most recent installment from his Tarot-based work-in-progress, XIII: Ship of State, was published by Dispatches Editions (2019), in conjunction with the “virtual-chapbook” republication of his XO: A Tale for the New Atlantis (1980). He lives in Greenwich Village, NYC, where he and his wife have raised their family, and is a frequent visitor to Gloucester and environs. |
| Mary Catherine Kinniburgh | Mary Catherine Kinniburgh researches, teaches, and consults on the intersections of literary studies and libraries. She received her Ph.D. in English from The Graduate Center, CUNY, where she edited archival documents for Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, including materials by Gregory Corso and Sister Mary Norbert Korte. Trained as a medievalist, she received her M.A. from Columbia University’s English and Comparative Literature department, and her work has been published or forthcoming in Book History, Digital Medievalist, Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies, and the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. She currently works in exhibitions at The New York Public Library, and visits Gloucester frequently to conduct ongoing research on libraries collected by poets–the subject of her dissertation, which prominently features the Maud/Olson Library. |
| John Faulise | Independent Scholar. Studied with George F. Butterick at the University of Connecticut (B.A. English) and contributed to his A Guide to the Maximus Poems of Charles Olson. At the University of Binghamton (M.A. English), served as assistant to the editor for Boundary 2, A Journal of Postmodern Literature 2.1-2 (1973-1974), devoted to Charles Olson. In 2012, received a Charles Olson Award from Simon Fraser University to research the Olson correspondence in their archives. Co-editor with Ralph Maud of a revised edition of Olson’s The Special View of History (not yet published). At the request of the executor of the estate of Ralph Maud, completed an inventory of all books and papers in Ralph’s office and identified the items that would become the Maud / Olson Library in Gloucester. |
| Henry Ferrini | Co-founder, Gloucester Writers Center |
| Gregor Gibson | Gregor Gibson has been a rare book dealer since 1976. He is also a writer and has published three non-fiction books and a novel. Since the 1992 death of his son in a school shooting he has been a gun violence prevention advocate. Gibson’s book about this event – GONE BOY – was an /Entertainment Weekly/ Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year. His crime novel THE OLD TURK’S LOAD was named A /Deadly Pleasures/ Best First Novel of the Year. He is currently awaiting the arrival of his MacArthur Genius Grant from the MacArthur Foundation, who seem to have lost his address. |
| Barbara Gale | Member |
| Paul Cultrera | Paul Cultrera lives in Gloucester where he returned in 2017 after a 27-year absence. In his previous Gloucester life, he was manager of the Cape Ann Food Co-op (may it rest in peace) from 1980 -1990. He then headed west and continued to work with several cooperatives until eventually retiring in late 2016 from his position as the General Manager of the Sacramento Natural Foods Cooperative. While in Gloucester and while away he took notes from his interactions with what was going on in and around him, some of which were published as books and referred to as poems while he would just call them messages. |