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Speaking of the power of cities, after two highly successful productions in Lowell (2008-09), the Massachusetts Poetry Festival will move its tents, workshops, coffeehouse readings, and auditorium events to downtown Salem in 2011, with a packed schedule of activities set for May 13 and 14. Keep checking www.masspoetry.org for updates as the…
Read More »Tonight, with my wife and two friends I saw “the movie” at the Showcase Cinemas, just a slapshot away from Micky Ward Circle. The film ended two hours ago and I’m still in a kind of shock from the hyper-realism on screen. Lowell appeared to be under a colossal magnifying glass.…
Read More »Here’s the link to the Facebook Page for the Beat Museum in San Francisco.
Read More »I picked up this item from the latest newsletter from the Beat Museum in San Francisco (www.kerouac.com). There’s a link to the Christie’s auction house site where you can see the letter from Jack Kerouac to Marlon Brando, urging the actor to acquire the film rights to Kerouac’s then-redhot novel…
Read More »Lowell-linked poet Joseph Donahue and his poems are examined in a dense and cerebral essay-review by Jeanne Heuving in the Seattle-based literary magazine “Golden Handcuffs Review” (Winter-Spring 2008). Read Heuving’s take on Donahue here. Joe has new fiction in the current issue of the magazine (Summer-Fall 2010), but unfortunately his selection is…
Read More »The NYTimes continues its series on the Civil War with “The Road from Secession to Sumter.” Read the latest installment here, and get the NYT if you want more.
Read More »In December 1961, “Glamour” magazine published a prose sketch by Jack Kerouac called “Home at Christmas” in which he recalls a blizzardy holiday scene from his youth in Pawtucketville. The writing is loose and lyrical in his spontaneous prose mode. Following is an excerpt from the sketch, which is available…
Read More »This poem comes from my days living in Pawtucketville in the 1980s. It was first published in “The Spanner,” the news bulletin of the now-Independent University Alumni Association at Lowell, related to UMass Lowell.—PM . 214 Sixth Avenue Bright snow at midnight in the shut-down neighborhood, Mute homes of folks I can’t…
Read More »See www.weather.com for the latest on the “big one” due to hit our region about noon. Read the latest forecast here. Here’s the Weather Channel’s Lowell page that you should be able to update. Here’s the link to the forecast at the UMass Lowell Meteorology Department’s Met Lab. Here’s the latest…
Read More »Dec. 23, 2010 (from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal, jsonline.com) Editor’s note: The following editorial, among the most famous ever written, appeared in The New York Sun in 1897 and remains appropriate today. Merry Christmas, everyone! —– We take pleasure in answering at once and thus prominently the communication below, expressing…
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