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The NYT today has an update on the Bill and Melinda Gates/Warren Buffet trolling-for-billionaires initiative. They are having a great deal of success in getting people to pledge to give at least half of their riches to charity. Read the article here, and consider buying a copy of the NYT if…
Read More »The Visit . When I saw her gnarled fingers, shaved head, eyes like knots of wood, I didn’t say anything. He waved her out of the room, asked us to sit down, served iced drinks. He talked about ’75 when he worked security at the embassy in Phnom Penh and…
Read More »Now available at Barnes and Noble Downtown, Welles Emporium, Guy Lefebvre’s Lowell Gallery, Brew’d Awakening, National Park Visitor Center Gift Shop, Monkey’s Ice Cream & Gifts, Dharma Buns, and online at www.loompress.com and www.amazon.com At many of these same fine businesses, readers will find Loom Press book titles, including those by Steve…
Read More »CHICAGO by Carl Sandburg Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders: They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen…
Read More »Here’s a poem from my days in Maine that was first published in 1991 in a small literary magazine in Troy, Maine, called “Potato Eyes.”—PM . Maine Heron A blue heron waits an hour, Shows patient power In a one-man soup line, Disregards time In favor of a single mind— The…
Read More »Poet Catherine Strisik has a new book, “Thousand-Cricket Song,” about Cambodia and the culture of the country in the post-genocide era. She will be in Lowell on Saturday, July 31, at 2 p.m., reading from her work and signing books at the UMass Lowell Barnes & Noble Downtown Bookstore on…
Read More »Nancye Tuttle of the SUN broke the news on June 10 that Lowell Memorial Auditorium will present writer, radioman extraordinaire, and poetry enthusiast Garrison Keillor on March 6, 2011. As far as I can recall Keillor has never played Lowell or the Merrimack Valley, so that’s a great get. Let’s be sure Garrison…
Read More »I missed taking note of Bastille Day (July 14), but my family has been following Le Tour de France on the Versus Channel. The coverage is first-rate—and worth watching as a travelogue as much as for a bicycle race. In honor of the French (mostly French Canadian) roots of many…
Read More »Following is the third and final section of my poem “Colorado,” which I hope our readers have enjoyed. I’m working on a new collection of poems and prose sketches whose title is “Stars in the Dark.” The book includes older and new writings, most of which are not related to…
Read More »Following is the second section of my poem “Colorado,” which I introduced yesterday. The Blood of Christ or Sangre de Cristo Mountains are in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. The range is either the beginning of the Rocky Mountains on the way north or the last stretch of the Rockies heading south.…
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