Greg Cook makes a ‘Friends Is Friends’ linocut
Here’s how Greg Cook carved and printed a linocut rendition of the cover of his long comic book “Friends Is Friends,” August 2016. Above: Finished prints hung up to dry.Continue Reading →
“It’s About Resistance To Throwing Things Out.’ Debuting the Maud/Olson Library
“It’s about resistance to throwing things out,” poet Ammiel Alcalay said during the shindig Saturday night to celebrate the opening of the Maud/Olson Library in Gloucester. The library is a…Continue Reading →
Amanda Cook’s ‘Fragments’ and ‘Gloucester Poem’
From “Fragments” by poet Amanda Cook (pictured above) of Gloucester, Mass., as published in late 2015 in the third issue of editor Joe Torra’s “Let the Bucket Down: A Magazine…Continue Reading →
Gerrit Lansing remembers Harry Smith
“I smoked a lot of weed with him [Harry Smith], on the streets even. We met in bars. We once were together in the great jazz place that closed very…Continue Reading →
Greg Cook’s ‘Friends Is Friends’
I think today I may have drawn my last page for my comic book “Friends Is Friends,” which is heading to the printer after, like, a decade and a half…Continue Reading →
Boston Public Library gets $488K grant for new teen programming
The Boston Public Library will offer “new and expanded technology programs in the new Teen Central space” scheduled to open at the Copley Square branch in late February with help from a…Continue Reading →