1623 Studios Podcasts

Heidi chats with Rockport Poet Laureate Bob Whelan about the power of poetry, bridges, thinking versus feeling, and of course, the pleasures of poetry!

"Siding With Love" is Gloucester Unitarian Universalist’s monthly podcast, co-hosted by Reverend Janet Parsons and Carol Bousquet. In our conversations, we’ll explore our religious values and principles that call us to help create a world that is centered on love and Justice. As the first Universalist congregation in the U.S., our podcast will be informed by our traditional Universalist belief tha...

Welcome to Pleasure of Poetry with Jay Featherstone and Heidi Wakeman. Join the Co-poets Laureate of Gloucester, Massachusetts for an inter-generational conversation on poetry, place and pleasure. Regular guests will include local poets and personalities sharing their own poetry.

On Aug. 26, in 2023 and 2024, Amy co-led Women's Equality forums that were well attended and enjoyed, (and filmed by affiliates of 1623 Studios). On Amy's 1st podcast she shares what she's been up to and suggests ways to celebrate Women's Equality Day in 2025, in light of recent roll-backs in women's rights. 

Join Cape Ann Today host Kory Curcuru as he catches up with Erika Brown of The Cricket . This week, they discuss the latest news in the ongoing saga surrounding the Community Center. #CapeAnnToday #OriginalContent #GloucesterMA #CapeAnnMA #RockportMA #EssexMA #ManchesterByTheSeaMA   1623 Studios is a #nonprofit organization dedicated to producing community programming for #CapeAnn—Gloucester, Rock...

Gloucester Times Reporters discuss Essex High School, Cape Ann Museum, and much more. 1623 Studios is a #nonprofit organization dedicated to producing community programming for #CapeAnn—Gloucester, Rockport, Manchester-by-the-Sea, and Essex—and to providing a forum for the free exchange of information and ideas. We also provide a full spectrum of creative services to support our mission. Learn mor...

In this bonus episode, John Curtis Perry has a conversation with Sung-Yoon Lee, expert on North Korea and author of the new book The Sister: North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the Most Dangerous Woman in the World.

Gloucester's Mayor Greg Verga discusses city updates including The Magnolia Pier, Green Street Project, and more!

In this bonus episode, John Curtis Perry describes his practical methodology for writing with the reader in mind, helps writers navigate the rocky shores of stilted or formulaic prose, and celebrates the joy of carefully crafting text.

In this final episode, the postlude book-ending the Revolution at Sea series, John Curtis Perry adds a few words as a sort of summary of our time together. "Together we have thought about some aspects of how the world of the terracentric has interacted with the world of the salt water (71% of the planet). We are living in a time of immense and rapid change as we grapple with the many dimensions of...

Millions of Chinese rise from poverty and support an authoritarian state with global ambitions for prominence. The Chinese declare that their system is superior to democracy. What does this mean for Americans?

Under Deng Xiaoping’s leadership, China opens to the outside world and builds a highly successful export economy. Logistics come first, Deng says.

“China stands up,” Mao says. At immense cost, China struggles in its early PRC years to make enormous political, economic, and social changes.

Having begun our discussion with China, we now return to it. We begin by looking at the nineteenth century when the Atlantic powers seized and occupied many ports, giving China an idea of what the outside world was like and what it then considered to be modern. For China, an age of bitterness.

"South Korea, a severely impoverished nation in the 1950s had always been a continental state. Now isolated from the mainland by international politics, Korea has turned to the sea. In a remarkably short time it has made itself a rich maritime power. [Correction: South Korea and Japan normalized relations in 1965, not 1963.]

Japan, the first Asian nation to develop an export-driven economy, becomes a leader in salt water commerce. It has become the world’s third largest economy and plays an important role in international affairs.

Although Eurocentrism has been strong, some Americans, like President Theodore Roosevelt, think about a dawning Pacific era. In the early 1980s, for the first time trade flows across the North Pacific exceeded those across the North Atlantic, with shipping reflecting a changing world economy. The greatest seaports lie now on the Asian coast.

Waterfronts are no longer densely populated because ships need more space than cities can provide. Sailors now spend only hours in port instead of days. They no longer see the world. A sense of community is lost.

Ocean is no longer the only way for people to travel across oceans. The oceanic empires rapidly collapse. Nuclear power makes true submarines possible and helps open the Arctic. Bulk cargo, the container, and the internet make new complete logistics networks possible and change our lives as consumers.

Europe tears itself apart in the first half of the 20th century. Warfare becomes global and civilians suffer severely. Ocean forms both avenue for the flow of resources, goods, and people, but also for an arena. New weaponry below the surface and above it complicate war at sea.