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‘When I Heard John Lewis Speak’: Lianna Kushi
Lianna Kushi is executive director of E for All Lowell-Lawrence, a nonprofit organization founded in 2013 that accelerates economic & social impact through inclusive entrepreneurship. She lives with her family in Lowell. John Lewis (web photo courtesy of Georgia Public Broadcasting) When I Heard John Lewis Speak by Lianna Kushi…
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From this week’s headlines . . .
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Cartoons from Nicholas Whitmore
Some Saturday morning cartoons from the past few weeks from our UK-based cartoonist, Nicholas Whitmore: …
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Some Saturday morning cartoons from the past few weeks from our UK-based cartoonist, Nicholas Whitmore:
Read More »Throwback Thursday: May 8, 2007
Here’s a new feature for this site: Throwback Thursday. We’ll repost an article from the archives. Our first offering comes from 2007, the first year of this blog’s existence. It was written by Marie Sweeney about the rapidly forming race to succeed Marty Meehan in Congress. Women in the “Fabulous…
Read More »Jacquelyn Malone’s New Poem
May 4, 2020
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PaulM
Posted in Politics, Coronavirus 2020, Current Events, History, Poetry
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Ill Wind by Jacquelyn Malone The wind whines wild and compulsive, spreading instability across the land. Shamelessly it contradicts itself, whipping—demented—in one direction, then reversing itself along an already trashed path. No one can forecast a steady state: the wind, a pompous blowhard, has no firm compass, diving into low…
Read More »‘Snake News’ by Nicholas Whitmore
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Read More »Tom Sexton: A New Poem
April 6, 2020
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PaulM
Posted in Poetry, Politics, Election 2020, Literature, Culture, History, Lowell
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The Barbarians Have Arrived After Cavafy by Tom Sexton After a few centuries of patiently waiting outside the city, the barbarians have finally arrived and taken over the Capitol. When did they realize our Republic was rotting from the inside like an overripe pear? Who thought they’d…
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