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Chath lives and works on a small family farm in Bolton, Mass., where he contemplates writing as a form of escape, but he can’t just rid himself of human ties. He paints the American sky thinking of Cambodia’s tyranny and blood. He’s alone, but not lonely, and tries living to…
Read More »My friend and mentor Charles Nikitopoulos of Lowell, Mass., passed away a few days ago. His obituary is here. I want to share my thoughts about what he meant to me as well as to the community and university of which he was a part for decades. He came to…
Read More »My new collection of poems is published by Brendan Gaylord of SuperLargePrint.com, a specialty publisher of books featuring extra-large print, twice the size of the large-print books available in public libraries, for people with sight challenges. Brendan takes books and parts of books that are in the public domain, meaning…
Read More »Tooch Van, a friend and a member of Lowell’s Cambodian-American community, shared the following poem: When Khmer Rouge Soldiers did not kill me was a mistake of their mission that night, this what I believe of it. I am in debt to my parents/ family and other Cambodians and their…
Read More »On the last day of National Poetry Month, we have a poem by writer and painter Chath pierSath who lived in Lowell many years and earned a master’s degree in community social psychology from UMass Lowell. He’s based on a vegetable-and-fruit farm in Bolton now and regularly travels to Cambodia…
Read More »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…
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