OPEN DOORS CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Each month Open Doors will host an art event at the Weymouth Studio. The events are a way for us to recognize and help promote art in the community. These events are by donation and open to the public. Donations go to providing opportunities for emerging and well-known artists, poets, musicians and dancers to showcase and share their work at Open Doors Weymouth Studio.
At Open Doors we believe that our community is vibrant and thriving with artistic expression. We invite you to share your art with us. For more information on events and shows contact Gloria Monaghan, monaghang@wit.edu , or Marilva Wedge, customersupport@opendoorsyogastudios.com.
NEXT EVENT
Open Doors Center for the Arts Presents:
THE CHIVE COLLECTIVE Poems of Spring
Saturday, April 11 | 6-8 pm
Poetry Reading followed by an open mic.
Location: Open Doors Yoga Studios, Weymouth Studio
Events are FREE and Open to the Public. Event location is not wheelchair accessible.
FEATURED ARTISTS
GLORIA MONAGHAN
Gloria Monaghan is a Professor at Wentworth University. She has published seven collections of poetry: Diary of Saint Marion, Lily Poetry Review, (2025), Cormorant on the Strand, Lily Poetry Review (2023), Hydrangea, Kelsay Press,(2020), Torero, Nixes Mate, (2020) False Spring, Adelaide Books, (2019), The Garden, Flutter Press (2015), and Flawed, Finishing Line Press (2011). Her poems have appeared in Mom Egg Review, Quartet and River Heron among others.
She has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize. She has been nominated for the Griffin Prize, and for the Shelia Margaret Motton Award. She was a Semi-Finalist for the Tenth Gate Prize. She is also a film maker.
EILEEN CLEARY
Eileen Cleary is the author of Wild Pack of the Living (Nixes Mate Press,2024), long listed for the Massachusetts Book Award, 2 a.m. with Keats (NixesMate Press, 2020) and Child Ward of the Commonwealth (Main Street Rag Press, 2019), which received an honorable mention for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in Sugar House Review, West Texas Literary Review, The American Journal of Poetry, JAMA, Right Hand Pointing, Verse Daily and other journals and anthologies. She founded and edits the Lily Poetry Review and Lily Poetry Review Books,
CHRISTINE BESS JONES
Christine Bess Jones lives in Orleans, MA and is the author of Limb of Water (One Bird Books, 2025), Now Calls Me Daughter (Nixes Mate Review, 2022) and Girl Without a Shirt (Finishing Line Press, 2020). She’s also co-editor of the anthology, Voices Amidst the Virus: Poets Respond to the Pandemic (Lily Poetry Books, 2020). She’s a senior contributing editor of Lily Poetry Review and co-founder of the Lily on the Cove Manuscript Clinic and Retreat.
ANNE ELEZABETH PLUTO
Anne Elezabeth Pluto grew up in Brooklyn, NY before it was cool. She is Professor of Literature and Theatre at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA where she is the artistic director of the Oxford Street Players. She is an alumna of Shakespeare & Company and was a member of the Worcester Shakespeare Company 2011 – 2016. She was a member of the Boston small press scene in the late 1980s and is one of the founders and editors at Nixes Mate Review and Nixes Mate Books. Her publications include chapbooks: The Frog Princess, White Pine Press (1985), eBook Lubbock Electric, Argotist ebooks (2012), Benign Protection Cervena Barva Press (2016), the edited print edition of Lubbock Electric Nixes Mate Books (2018), and full-length collections The Deepest Part of Dark, Unlikely Stories Press, NOLA (2020), and How Many Miles to Babylon?, Lily Books, (2023) .
GREAT EVENTS... WONDERFUL MEMORIES.
PAST EVENTS
GLORIA MONAGHAN's SHORT FILM DEBUT
Daughter of Rubens, was accepted into the Provincetown Film Festival 2023. This is a short documentary about the life and work of Nancy Ellen Craig, who lived in Truro with the reclusive poet Preston Carter. The screenings for the film were June 11, at 11 am at the Provincetown Art House 1 and June 18th, 4:00 pm. Provincetown Water’s Edge 1.
The film premiered on April 4th, 2023 in Blount Auditorium where several curators from local museums were invited and attended as well as the President of Wentworth, Mark Thompson and his wife Karen.
The Provincetown Independent as well as The Cape Cod Chronicle in addition to The Provincetown Magazine featured articles about the film!
