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Tom Sexton (photo by Kevin Harkins) On the Street, Tom & Me Around 2010, I wrote a series of posts for the Howe blog about my weekly hikes in Lowell. Usually I walked alone on Sunday mornings when the streets are quiet, often taking notes about what I saw and…
Read More »Tom Sexton at Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill, Mass. (photos by Kevin Harkins) Farewell to Our Friend Tom Sexton, American Poet (1940-2025) We learned from his wife Sharyn Sexton that our friend and fellow contributor to this blog Tom Sexton passed away at home in Alaska on March 12…
Read More »We have a new poem from one of our far-flung contributors, Tom Sexton in Alaska. Tom is a former Poet Laureate of Alaska and a permanent member of the Lowell High School Alumni Hall of Fame. The photographs below are by Kevin Harkins, made a few years ago when Tom…
Read More »Tom Sexton, a frequent contributor to this blog, sent us a new poem that he worked on for some time. The length of a poem doesn’t guarantee that the composition was written swiftly. In the title, Yellowhead is the Yellowhead Highway, a main route in Western Canada. I like the…
Read More »Our frequent contributor Tom Sexton sent a new poem from the coast of Maine where he is spending the winter—on break from Alaska. Tom is the author of many collections of poetry including Cummiskey Alley: New and Selected Lowell Poems and Li Bai Rides a Celestial Dolphin Home. He is a…
Read More »Creamer’s Field Wildlife Refuge by Tom Sexton Beyond the wide fields planted with barley for the cranes, a speck of boreal forest with nature trails, wild strawberries, pale iris, seasonal marsh crossed by boardwalks now jumbled like pick-up sticks thrown down by a witless hand. The permafrost is melting.…
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