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The Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene online site has an excellent new review of Paul Hudon’s book-length poem “All in Good Time” (Loom Press) by Irene Koronas of Wilderness House Literary Review. Paul Hudon’s writing, his poems, are open, contemporary; they inspire, invite the reader in. His language resolves…
Read More »Thanks to George DeLuca on Facebook for this link to a Guardian in the UK article about the Buddhist wiseman Thich Nhat Hahn’s statements on living in balance on Earth. Read the article here. Sustainability Week has become the theme for every week starting now. Web photo by Frank Schweitzer, courtesy of…
Read More »In the network of National Parks, Monuments, Recreation Areas, Historial Parks, Battlefields, and other units, Golden Gate in San Francisco is one of the most spectacular for a scenic vista dominated by a wonder of technology, the big red-orange bridge. The people of San Francisco have planned a year-long celebration…
Read More »When Lowell National Historical Park was signed into law in 1978, people involved with creating it often talked about how it would be a different kind of Park because Lowell is a “living city” and wasn’t about to be frozen in time for tourism. The Park is the city, and…
Read More »The Boston Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy can crank up his prose to meet the occasion. Today’s column about the Bruins winning the Stanley Cup is one to clip out of the paper or print from boston.com and keep on file. Read his take on the win, and get the Globe if…
Read More »The Sunday, June 12, Boston Globe included a special magazine section “Diversity Boston” that prominently featured an article about growing voter activism among Cambodian-Americans in Lowell. Sovanna Pouv of the United Teen Equality Center was profiled as a community organizer intent on registering new Cambodian-American voters. I could not find…
Read More »In today’s NYTimes, opinion writer David Brooks rails against what he sees as the utter failure of the two big conventional political parties. It’s fun to read, but I don’t like his insistence on charging both with equivalent incompetence. For once, I’d like him to run down the GOP without having to…
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