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Haiku by Ray LaPorte (April 4)
. Budget crisis looms Nuke radiation drifts here As Red Sox hit swoon . —Ray LaPorte (c) 2011
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3rd Annual richardhowe.com Community Haiku Project
Okay, who’s counting—I know it’s April 4. The haiku writers got an extension because of the weekend start for National Poetry Month. But here we are. Gentle-people and not so much-ers, start your compositional engines. Send traditional (5-7-5) Japanese-style haiku or looser Western haiku that say a lot in three…
Read More »Tom & Me
Arthur’s Paradise Diner is tucked in along the canal in the shadow of the Boott Cotton Mills. Eating there is like eating inside an old wooden tool box that is perfectly designed, without an inch of wasted space between the griddle and the booths. Tom ordered the cheese omelette and gave in…
Read More »Lowell Arts Anthology for Younger Creators
Bootstrap Productions and the Cultural Organization of Lowell have teamed up to produce an anthology of creative work by younger artists in Lowell: writers, musicians, visual artists, and others. The publication is set for release later this year. If you are (or know of) a creator no more than 40…
Read More »‘Sudden Shower at Ohashi Bridge’ by Ando Hiroshige (1857)
Look at this color wood block print image from a Japanese artist in 1857, and then look below at Tony Sampas’s photograph of Lowell City Hall in snow.
Read More »BeatleJuice Dance Party at LMA Last Night
The folks at Middlesex Community College threw a party for more than 500 people at Lowell Memorial Auditorium last night with the best music that could be ordered up, All-Beatles-All-the-Time. On stage was the top Beatles tribute band in this part of the country, Beatlejuice, whose players served up note-perfect versions…
Read More »ETIC, Time Capsule, Soaring Steel
The topping off ceremony at the construction site of UMass Lowell’s Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center was satisfyingly inspirational for many reasons, chief among them being the sight of a long white steel girder autographed by hundreds of people in blue Sharpie and bearing a small fir tree and US…
Read More »Sunday, May 22, Book Event: Save the Date
Sunday, May 22, is a day to mark on your calendars if you are interested in literature, Lowell, the creative economy, poetry, history, America, and more. If the planets line up correctly, there should be four new books released that day by Kate Hanson Foster, Paul Hudon, Bob Forrant &…
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March 31, 2011
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The NYTimes today has an article about a new art project involving tractor trailers and a bunch of activist visual artists and writers and performers. Read about The Great American Art Trip as reported by Randy Kennedy, and get the NYT if you want more of this kind of arts…
Read More »Leymah Gbowee, UMass Lowell’s Greeley Peace Scholar
Everyone is invited to hear the acclaimed African peace activist Leymah Roberta Gbowee speak at UMass Lowell on Monday, April 4, at 12.30 pm, in the O’Leary Library Auditorium, Room 222, 61 Wilder Street, on UML’s South Campus. Parking is available in the Visitor Lot on Wilder. She is the…
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