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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 »Marlborough Woods . Brown in their winter skins, they rise up, Lean pointers, borders of the wilderness. After January rain, glass branches rock, Melting and re-freezing as air shifts from fog to chill. Across the shelf of Mount Monadnock, Under a white flannel sun, Wind blows the snow like cold…
Read More »Please note that due to extreme weather (cold cold cold) forecast for today and tonight, the Tewksbury Public Library has postponed my talk scheduled for this evening about my new book, “Mill Power: The Origin and Impact of Lowell National Historical Park,” until later this winter. Watch here for the…
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 wrote this poem on the West Coast, when I was in graduate school at the University of California in 1983-84. I had moved across country and wanted to write something about the coincidence of living in Dana Point, which had a Massachusetts and even a Lowell connection. The composition…
Read More »A note from Henri Marchand: Like its subject, this essay has been around, appearing first as a Sunrise radio essay on WUML-FM at UMass Lowell, re-wrapped as a “Guest Column” piece in the Sun, and showing up on this blog for the first time in 2009—and then returning here annually as…
Read More »One of our past contributors has a seasonal essay to share with our readers. Jack McDonough has been a writer and editor at UMass Lowell in the University Relations Office for 20 years. He wrote this piece for broadcast as one of the daily essays on the Sunrise radio program…
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