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Kate Hanson Foster graduated from UMass Lowell and gained her MFA in Poetry from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She lives in Groton, Mass. Her poems have appeared in California Quarterly, Comstock Review, and other literary magazines. Her first book “Mid Drift,” published by Loom Press in 2011, was selected that…
Read More »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 »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. If I were technologically proficient, I’d edge this blog in black. How profoundly sad is the grievous slaughter of 12 yesterday in Paris, journalists and their police protectors at the satire magazine Charlie Hebdo. What…
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 always welcome the new year as a time for fresh starts whether it be personal goals like working out or eating better or communal objectives like increasing voter turnout or making the city more walkable. Celebrating the actual passage of one year to the next – midnight on New…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I’m not Gene Siskel, Roger Ebert, or Joyce Kulhawik, and I don’t pretend to be. But this is a heavy season for movie going, with the industry trying to distribute its best in anticipation of the next round of…
Read More »For those who celebrate the spiritual event and holyday that for us is Christmas – we do so without restraint on our person, our beliefs, our rituals… the secular and civic revelries of Christmas time ~ the music, gift giving, parties, food, song, symbols and salutes thrive as well…. here…
Read More »Just in time for those with a few days off around Christmas and New Year, Nancy Pitkin writes about her recent visit to the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge: On 22nd December 2014, we visited the newly renovated Harvard Art Museum buildings on Quincy Street. The Fogg and the Arther…
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