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A special poem for National Poetry Month. Thomas Fitzsimmons (1926-2017) was born in Lowell and attended Lowell High School (he left to join the Merchant Marine but later earned a diploma elsewhere). Here’s a bit about his life from his obituary in the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper: “He is…
Read More »Web photo courtesy of MDC At Just Light the Folded News At just light the folded news in a plastic sleeve lands slap on the driveway, tossed by the analog town-crier carrier whose car doesn’t stop at every house the way I remember the paper being delivered by kids…
Read More »When Dick, Marie, and I put together our ten-year anthology of writing and photos from the blog, History As It Happens: Citizen Bloggers in Lowell, Mass. (2017, Loom Press), we made sure to include poems because they had been a prominent feature on the blog for many years. Their appearance was…
Read More »For National Poetry Month, here’s a poem re-posted from my paulmarion.com blog from last July. We’ll try to get a few more poetry-writers on the blog this month. Our readers have seen Mark Reimer this week. Here in Amesbury there’s a banner for National Poetry Month on the main street…
Read More »Mark Reimer is a former colleague of mine at UMass Lowell who now works at another college and “moonlights as a poet and a musician,” in his words. His poetry has been published in America magazine; still: a journal of short verse; Christianity and Literature; and Pontoon: An Anthology of Washington State Poets. I had…
Read More »Here’s a cross-post from my website blog at paulmarion.com which brings back a poem and a local Irish scene from the late 1980s in Lowell. The setting is a pub where boxer Jackie Brady’s fight photographs hung on the walls.– Paul Marion
Read More »Starting last fall, my blogger-colleague Paul Marion began posting updates on local writers and poets who Paul found were doing “interesting and substantial things” with their work. That effort has yielded 22 writer profiles and has reminded us of others who should be included on the roster and introduced us…
Read More »Our far-flung correspondent Down East in Maine sent us a new poem. Tom Sexton of Lowell and Alaska and Maine reports that he gave a poetry reading to a capacity audience at his Atlantic Coast-base in Eastport, the youngest attendee checking in at about 60 years old. I say, You…
Read More »At the blog, we’ve had a great response to the series of updates on writers linked to Lowell and the region. My co-blogger Paul Marion contacted the writers and did the overviews of their activity in the past year as well as hints about what’s forthcoming in 2019. I wanted…
Read More »Sarah Sousa: A Fruitful Creative Path I met Sarah Sousa a few years ago at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival in Salem, Mass. She was there with friends from Perugia Press, an independent publishing company in Florence, Mass. Perugia publishes one title a year, a first or second book by a…
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