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I lived in Pawtucketville for several years, from the late 1970s to early ’80s. I often write in response to a place or to make sense of a place, and that neighborhood was no different. I lived on the top floor of an old triple-decker, a sea-green block on a…
Read More »In spite of the blizzard news, I must note that on this day – Janury 27, 2000 – the New England Patriot’s hired Bill Belichick as their 14th coach. And the rest – as they say – is history with perhaps more history to be made in 2015. From the…
Read More »Poet Ezra Pound said, “Poetry [or literature] is news that stays news,” and the doctor-poet of Paterson, New Jersey, William Carlos Williams, believed that the news worthwhile receiving can be found in poems. Following is an excerpt from a long poem that includes Williams’s well known lines about poetry and…
Read More »Kate Hanson Foster graduated from UMass Lowell and gained her MFA in Poetry from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She lives in Groton, Mass. Her poems have appeared in California Quarterly, Comstock Review, and other literary magazines. Her first book “Mid Drift,” published by Loom Press in 2011, was selected that…
Read More »Whether watching men releasing caged birds at dawn in New York City or a ladder of cranes rising from a field in Manitoba, Tom Sexton is a keen observer of the interconnectedness of the natural and human worlds. The former Alaska poet laureate takes to the road in…
Read More »Our far-flung contributor Tom Sexton is wintering Down East, tending to his poems and books. He sent this composition about the young women workers back in the day. Tom’s latest book is “A Ladder of Cranes” (University of Alaska Press, distributed by University of Chicago Press). Congratulations to Tom, one…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. If I were technologically proficient, I’d edge this blog in black. How profoundly sad is the grievous slaughter of 12 yesterday in Paris, journalists and their police protectors at the satire magazine Charlie Hebdo. What…
Read More »The article surfaced on the web yesterday, a Boston Globe Travel section report on the vibrant cultural life in Lowell, a city whose historic sector carries the designation of The Canalway Cultural District, thanks to the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Quickly, the news story by writer Patricia Harris and photographer David Lyon…
Read More »On Wed., Jan. 7, at 7 pm, I will be at the Tewksbury Public Library, 300 Chandler Street, discussing my new book, Mill Power: The Origin and Impact of Lowell National Historical Park. The program is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Robert Hayes at 978-640-4490 or rhayes@mvlc.org Here’s…
Read More »I always welcome the new year as a time for fresh starts whether it be personal goals like working out or eating better or communal objectives like increasing voter turnout or making the city more walkable. Celebrating the actual passage of one year to the next – midnight on New…
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