Colleen Michaels, founder and host of the Improbable Places Poetry Tour, debuted her first poetry collection “Prize Wheel” (Small Bites Press) with a reading and party at Chianti in Beverly…Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
“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 →
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 →
“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 →
I was saddened to learn yesterday that my friend, the eminent Gloucester poet Gerrit Lansing, has entered care for the end of his long and amazing life. (Update Jan. 12:…Continue Reading →
“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 →
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 →