Goodbye To Former Boston Poet Laureate Sam Cornish
Sorry to hear about the passing of Sam Cornish, who was Boston’s Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2015. He died on Aug. 20 at age 82. “As a black writer…Continue Reading →
Photos: 2018 Boston Poetry Marathon
Over the past year, the Gloucester poet Gerrit Lansing had been thinking a lot about death, poet Ruth Lepson recalled at the annual Boston Poetry Marathon on Sunday afternoon. “Do…Continue Reading →
The Man Who Took Care Of Winnie-The-Pooh’s House
Just north of Harvard Yard in Cambridge sits the Harvard Science Building. And just to its left, on its west side facing toward Cambridge Common, is the stump of a…Continue Reading →
Photos: Boston Compass Centennial Celebration at Garment District
Boston Compass celebrated eight years of publishing and the arrival of its hundredth issue with the “Compass Centennial” party featuring DJs, snacks, beer and a “fashion photo booth” at the…Continue Reading →
Boston Compass—The Monthly Guide To The City’s Music Underground—Reaches Its 100th Issue
I wrote about the Boston Compass reaching a milestone in the latest Dig Boston: “Directing you to underground shows and awesome happenings! in Boston,” Samuel Potrykus scrawled across the top of the…Continue Reading →
Providence Comics Consortium Invites You To Draw Mutants And Monsters At ‘Sketchbook Church’
The Providence Comics Consortium’s “Sketchbook Church,” writes artist Walker Mettling, is “not church in the religious way, church in the Sunday morning way. Maybe in the coffee and bagels way.” It’s…Continue Reading →
Improbable Places Poetry Tour Brings Poetry To A Bike Shop, A Bank, A Farm, A Swimming Pool And (Tomorrow, Maybe) A Viking Ship
The idea for the Improbable Places Poetry Tour arrived at a time when Colleen Michaels’s daughter was young and they’d walk everywhere, especially along Cabot Street in Beverly, where they…Continue Reading →
Rock Historian Explores How The Occult And Underground Spirituality Energized The ‘Devil’s Music’
In the beginning, there was Elvis Presley shimmying as he sang the new rock ‘n’ roll for 1956 white America. The young things in the audience were entranced, but the…Continue Reading →
Jessica Kensky Lost Her Legs To The Marathon Bombing, In Her New Children’s Book She Writes Of The Struggles And Setbacks Of Healing
At the beginning of the new children’s picture book “Rescue & Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship,” a girl lays in a hospital bed worried after being told by her doctor: “You’re…Continue Reading →
‘There Are Hurts That Don’t Go Away’—Amanda Cook’s Poetic Memoir Of Her Mother’s Dementia, Of Becoming A Mom Herself, Of Everyday Life
“There are hurts that don’t go away. They follow us like the dead or the lost, and we mourn them as such,” Amanda Cook writes in the entry for Saturday,…Continue Reading →