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 →
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 →
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. 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 →
Two decades ago, author Junot Diaz was asked by his two goddaughters, Dominican girls living in the Bronx, to write a book about little girls like them. “The only problem…Continue Reading →
At the start of last year, Minneapolis novelist Kelly Barnhill won the Newbery Medal, the highest honor in young adult literature, for her fourth novel, “The Girl Who Drank the…Continue Reading →
Will my umbrella survive? Will I survive? How many trash cans will I see tumble by my window?Continue Reading →
Last Saturday, Feb. 24, hundreds of people gathered at Gloucester’s Hammond Castle for a memorial to eminent Gloucester poet Gerrit Lansing, who died on Feb. 11, a couple weeks shy…Continue Reading →
The titles of the paintings in Providence artist Allison Cole’s exhibition “Lost Together” in the Reading Room at AS220’s Project Space gallery in Providence through Feb. 24 begin to tell…Continue Reading →
“I was able to do something maybe wilder than I would have on my own,” the Boston artist Barbara Swan would say about her illustrations for Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston poet…Continue Reading →