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On the last day of National Poetry Month, we have a poem by writer and painter Chath pierSath who lived in Lowell many years and earned a master’s degree in community social psychology from UMass Lowell. He’s based on a vegetable-and-fruit farm in Bolton now and regularly travels to Cambodia…
Read More »A special poem for National Poetry Month. Thomas Fitzsimmons (1926-2017) was born in Lowell and attended Lowell High School (he left to join the Merchant Marine but later earned a diploma elsewhere). Here’s a bit about his life from his obituary in the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper: “He is…
Read More »Geoffrey Douglas, long time staff writer and sometime adjunct professor at UMass Lowell, has a new book forthcoming from Globe Pequot Press. A compilation of many of his Yankee magazine stories written over more than 20 years, the book has one selection of special Lowell interest and which I want…
Read More »From the office of Mayor William Samaras: City of Learning: Realizing the Mogan Legacy The Lowell community is organizing itself as a “City of Learning” in the spirit of the global Learning Cities network of the United Nation’s UNESCO program. Places like Cork, Ireland; Nairobi, Kenya; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Volos,…
Read More »Web photo courtesy of HOWL magazine and Tory Wesnofske We learned today that Guy Lefebvre passed away at his home in Maine. Our sympathy goes to his family and many friends. I will always remember Guy’s good spirit and generosity in the years that he ran his Lowell Gallery at…
Read More »JoJo White in his prime. In the spirit of those Boston Globe columnists who would fill a hole in the paper with a Just Thinkin’ piece, here are some thoughts about local sports. One of the best Boston sports days is Patriots Day with the Marathon and Red Sox as…
Read More »Web photo courtesy of MDC At Just Light the Folded News At just light the folded news in a plastic sleeve lands slap on the driveway, tossed by the analog town-crier carrier whose car doesn’t stop at every house the way I remember the paper being delivered by kids…
Read More »When Dick, Marie, and I put together our ten-year anthology of writing and photos from the blog, History As It Happens: Citizen Bloggers in Lowell, Mass. (2017, Loom Press), we made sure to include poems because they had been a prominent feature on the blog for many years. Their appearance was…
Read More »For National Poetry Month, here’s a poem re-posted from my paulmarion.com blog from last July. We’ll try to get a few more poetry-writers on the blog this month. Our readers have seen Mark Reimer this week. Here in Amesbury there’s a banner for National Poetry Month on the main street…
Read More »Mark Reimer is a former colleague of mine at UMass Lowell who now works at another college and “moonlights as a poet and a musician,” in his words. His poetry has been published in America magazine; still: a journal of short verse; Christianity and Literature; and Pontoon: An Anthology of Washington State Poets. I had…
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