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I borrowed this title from Joe Donahue’s poem sequence about JFK in his 1989 book Before Creation. I imagine a drawer in an old bureau in the cellar or attic filled with collectibles from the Kennedy years. Campaign pins, scrapbooks, LIFE magazine issues. I still have in my office at…
Read More »It seems that everyone is still recovering from the election. Usually at this time of the year all attention shifts to the selection of the next mayor. This year, as I discussed last week, Rodney Elliott immediately lined up commitments from a majority of councilors so he should be the…
Read More »Following are excerpts from a seqence of poems titled “Purple Ritual” in Joseph Donahue’s first book of poems, Before Creation (1989). The sequence in much longer and more complex than these passages suggest, but today it seemed important to me to share part of this composition for the record. At…
Read More »“Salmon Sky Above the Mills” by Richard Marion (c) 2013 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »[youtube]eih67rlGNhU[/youtube] Someone once joked to me that walking through downtown Lowell was like visiting a casting call for Les Miserables. That was twenty years ago. I’m not sure how much has changed. It’s really in the nature of cities to attract all kinds of people, from the very well off…
Read More »Here’s some information from the city of Lowell office of special events: CITY OF LIGHTS PARADE & HOLIDAY CELEBRATION USHERS IN THE 2013 HOLIDAY SEASON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. IN DOWNTOWN LOWELL Daytime Family Activities, Strolling Carolers, and the 6th Annual Hot Chocolate Competition lead…
Read More »I recently learned that Joe Meehan, a good friend from the Greater Lowell YMCA, writes poetry. I asked him to consider sharing one of his poems with us and he agreed. Here’s what Joe offered as background: The change from September to October has a different look and feel the…
Read More »Last Wednesday it was our privilege to be guests at the UMass Lowell 2013 Flag Raising Ceremony & Veterans Day Celebration held outside Cumnock Hall/North Campus. The flag-raising ceremony paid tribute to UMass Lowell’s more than 1,450 student veterans, 2013 Veterans Alumni Hall of Fame inductees and veterans throughout the…
Read More »An excerpt from “The Lighting Up,” an essay in The Prose Works of John Greenleaf Whitter: Volume II (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866). The essay was first published in book form in 1843 in a collection called The Stranger in Lowell, which brought together several essays that had appeared in a…
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