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From University Hospital in Waterford, Ireland, Alex Hayes of the staff sent us a poem he wrote in the midst of the virus crisis. We know Alex from the anthology Atlantic Currents: Connecting Cork and Lowell, just published this month. He has several poems in the collection. A graduate of…
Read More »In normal times, some of us would be watching the Bruins late in their season, looking forward to the playoffs. This ain’t normal time. So, we have something else. Mike McCormick sent this essay from Alaska. He grew up in the Merrimack River Valley, Haverhill, and soaked up the Boston…
Read More »art and Emanuel a tale of Fort Wood, Missouri by Michael Casey . when you are making seventy-six dollars a month the idea of spending one hundred dollars on a wall poster when you don’t even have a wall sort of stupid but he sees a leaflet on my…
Read More »We are cross-posting this report from “The Body Politic: A View from Lowell, MA,” the blog of poet and community activist Emily Ferrara. A past contributor to this publication, Emily is allowing us to share her observations on the crisis at hand and other city matters. We are grateful. Watch…
Read More »Anyone who has been watching the UMass Lowell Art Department in the past few decades knows the name Arno Rafael Minkkinen, a world-class photographer who has been anchored there as a teacher and artist since 1987. He lives in the region, but works the world as an acclaimed photographer who…
Read More »One of our occasional contributors, Bob Hodge, has a new book about his adventures in running, Tales of the Times. Bob finished third in the Boston Marathon in 1979 and won the 1982 Beppa-Oita Marathon in Japan. His memoir is filled with rich and lively accounts of an elite athlete’s…
Read More »As panic sweeps the United States and the world in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, our regular contributor George Chigas of UMass Lowell was reminded of the poem “Fear” by Charles Simic, the Serbian-born Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who has taught at the University of New Hampshire since the 1970s.…
Read More »Virus Dispatch From The Northwest by Mike McCormick ON MARCH 3, WHEN MY WIFE KATY and I landed in Seattle off a flight from Anchorage, concern about the spread of the coronavirus was ramping up. We had arrived in Seattle three days before Katy’s scheduled minor procedure at the Swedish…
Read More »Mike McCormick sent us this memory piece from Eagle River Alaska, where the Haverhill native has lived for many years. I met Mike a few years ago through our mutual interest in Jack Kerouac, the Red Sox, music, and writing in general. Mike is a legend in the Northwest,…
Read More »The Massachusetts Genealogical Council is coming to Lowell! The group will hold its 2020 seminar, Origins & Destinations, at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center on Saturday, April 4 and Sunday, April 5, 2020. Registration is open to anyone and you may register for one or both days at…
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