Massachusetts Poetry Festival
“This is not what you read in High School,” said January O’Neil, the executive director of this weekend’s Massachusetts Poetry Festival, an annual invasion of downtown...
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Metamemoirs
Perry Glasser, a professor at Salem State University, was recently named a Fellow by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. His newest book, Metamemoirs, is made of up essays that...
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Speak Up! Spoken Word Open Mic Turns Five
Beverly Storyteller Tony Toledo hosts and features at Lynn event’s Fifth Anniversary Show April 10th  It was five years ago, on April Fool’s Day, that host Tony Toledo and...
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In Review: Bruce Guernsey’s From Rain: Poems, 1970 – 2010 (2012, Ecco Qua Press)
In the autumn of last year, Bruce Guernsey enjoyed an attentive audience of several dozen, who lapped up a smolderingly dramatic poetry reading from his new retrospective book...
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Making Literature Accessible at PEM
A recent addition to the ongoing Peabody Essex Museum’s PEM/PM program is bringing unique literary flair to an already special lineup. The Tannery Series has a simple goal when...
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When a Wife Just Isn’t a Wife
I will happily celebrate my seventh wedding anniversary next summer. My problem as a married lesbian is the lack of a good all-occasion word to refer to my beloved. I struggle...
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