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For those who haven’t heard from other channels UMass Lowell’s Portuguese Center event with poet Frank X. Gaspar that was scheduled for Thursday evening, April 11, has been cancelled due to a change in the author’s schedule! Please stay tuned for details our event with anthropology scholar Cristiana Bastos on…
Read More »I’m glad I went down to the river last night. The preacher was in town, and the congregation was called to assemble. He made his fourth tour through the city of smokestacks and steeples, the small city with the world on its streets. The people arrived with eager, happy looks…
Read More »The Milk Snatcher . In 1975 I remember marching, as a scuffy undergraduate, to Parliament calling for Margaret Thatcher’s resignation as Minister for Education. I carried a banner which read “Thatcher The Milk Snatcher”—one of Thatcher’s first forays into re-aligning the British state was to propose ending the distribution of…
Read More »Ryan Gallagher, Chuck Levenstein, and I had a good afternoon in Gloucester reading poems for about 20 people at the Gloucester Writers Center, which is a small house on East Main Street that was once the home of poet Vincent Ferrini, longtime poet laureate of Gloucester and a disciple of…
Read More »Read Kevin Cullen in today’s Globe for a great take on UMass Lowell hockey, the university on the move, and what it all means for Lowell.
Read More »When I wrote this post in November of 2009, I didn’t know Patrick Murphy and nobody had any idea of what would unfold in the next few years. Catching up with the latest local commentary on social media this morning, I remembered this quirky post written in the aftermath of…
Read More ». Easter . To get to church you have to cross the river, First breadwinner for the town, its wide Mud-colored currents cleansing forever The swill-making villages at its side. The disinfected voice of the minister For a moment is one of the clues, But he is talking of nothing…
Read More »“East Merrimack Street Bridge” by Richard Marion (c) 2013 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net This image was created in response to the visionary urban beautification plan called “Lowell: The Flowering City,” published in the mid-1990s. Readers may have seen the logo of the project on a large sign at the…
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