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Blockbuster Council Motion Tuesday Most Lowell City Council motions are noncontroversial, but every so often one with far-reaching implications is served up. Such will be the case Tuesday night when councilors take up a joint motion by Vesna Nuon and Ed Kennedy. The motion requests the City Manager to “encourage…
Read More »Jacquelyn Malone: New Poems, Broadside Contest Winner The first time I read Jacquelyn Malone’s name, it was on a list of writers who had been awarded a prestigious National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. That was around 1990, I think. She was listed as a Lowell resident who had won…
Read More »Kate Hanson Foster: NEA Fellowship, New Book Completed, & More We caught up to a busy Kate Hanson Foster on the Groton frontier, where she lives with her husband, Bert, and their three children. She reports that the garden is pulled up and they just stacked a cord of wood…
Read More »David Moloney of Lowell: Forthcoming Novel, High Praise Bloomsbury Publishing will release David Moloney’s first novel, Barker House, in February 2020. He’s a Lowell resident and graduate of UMass Lowell and Southern New Hampshire University (master’s degree in creative writing). David’s novel has earned outstanding advance notices from well-known writers.…
Read More »Dave Robinson: Writer-in-Residence, Portugal Checking in with writer, poet, and multifarious arts guy Dave Robinson, we learned that he’s back from a Writer-in-Residence gig at Cultívamos Cultura in São Luis, Portugal. He was at the arts center in a dual role with his wife and creative partner, Anna Isaak-Ross, an…
Read More »The Lowell Way By Kendall Wallace Lowell—-My grandparents came to Lowell from Prince Edward Island, Canada more than 100 years ago. Since that time, five generations of our family have called Lowell home. Earlier this year. My family was the last of the clan to leave Lowell. My wife and…
Read More »Tom Sexton sent us a new poem from his outpost on the edge of northeast Maine. He and his wife Sharyn split their time between Maine and Alaska. Our readers will recognize Tom’s name from past contributions to this blog. He drops back in to Lowell when he’s on the…
Read More »Here’s another in my series of updates on active writers with a local/regional connection. I can see Exeter, N.H., from my house on a hill in Amesbury, so Matt W Miller is close by. Readers of this blog may know him from his Lowell days growing up and during high…
Read More »2019 City Election Politics in Lowell never takes a day off, so as soon as the November 6, 2018, state election was complete, thoughts turned to the 2019 city election which will be held next November with a preliminary election, if needed, in September. You can’t talk about the 2019…
Read More »Here’s the second update on writers in the area. Watch for a few more next week. — PM Emilie-Noelle Provost: First Novel & Back in the Magazine Biz Lowell writer Emilie-Noelle Provost, formerly editor-in-chief at 512 Media Inc. in Methuen, publisher of Merrimack Valley Magazine and The Bean Magazine, is…
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