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Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene: Interview with Heather Aveson: New News Director of Somerville Community Access TV
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Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene. About the Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene. Friday, July 24, 2015. Interview with Heather Aveson: New News Director of Somerville Community Access TV. Interview with Heather Aveson: New News Director of Somerville Community Access TV. Aveson reflected, “ I want to continue Jane's mission of giving a voice to people who don't have a voice.” And some of these people she gave a voice to were the Nepalese community in our city, as well as the ...Although SCAT...
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Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene: 06/14/2015 - 06/21/2015
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Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene. About the Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene. Friday, June 19, 2015. Bird in the Hand Poems by Lianne Spidel. Bird in the Hand. Poems by Lianne Spidel. Review by Dennis Daly. 8230; our hems were turned down twice. Before our mothers cut up our dresses. For doll clothes. Somehow. There was always a doll for a birthday. Or Christmas, certain as a ration book. Or a terrifying newsreel at a Saturday matinee. While faraway children starved. Full of salmon and th...
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Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene: 05/24/2015 - 05/31/2015
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Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene. About the Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene. Saturday, May 30, 2015. Book Review: Portrait of an Artist as a Young Poseur 1974 to 1983. By Doug Holder. Book Review: Portrait of an Artist as a Young Poseur 1974 to 1983. By Doug Holder ( Big Table Books) $12. Review by Ed Meek. There he’d run into luminaries like the great Richard Yates, author of Revolutionary Road, or the young, but just as rumpled, Barney Frank. Friday, May 29, 2015. Ignatius, in her role...
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Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene: 06/07/2015 - 06/14/2015
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Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene. About the Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene. Wednesday, June 10, 2015. Journalist, Poet, Wendell Smith: From the Cambridge Phoenix, Spiro Agnew, Wounded Knee, Kent State and all points beyond…. Journalist, Poet, Wendell Smith: From the Cambridge Phoenix, Spiro Agnew, Wounded Knee, Kent State and all points beyond…. Doug Holder: So tell me how you got your first writing gig? DH: You wrote for the Cambridge Phoenix at its inception, in the fall of 1969.
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Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene: The Underwater Typewriter By Marc Zegans
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Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene. About the Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene. Thursday, July 23, 2015. The Underwater Typewriter By Marc Zegans. Review by Meghan Guidry. Charting the Depths – A Review of Marc Zegans’ The Underwater Typewriter. Human engagement and connection is a negative condition of survival in Zegans’ poetic environment. Without it, we perish. This is the axiom of Zegans’ work: The whiplash anxiety between grasping for connection and the moments of ...Zegans’ spe...
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Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene: 07/12/2015 - 07/19/2015
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Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene. About the Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene. Tuesday, July 14, 2015. Nina R. Alonso: A Poet with a dancer’s sensibility. Nina R. Alonso. Left) Kathleen Spivack ( Right). The renowned David Godine Press published her book “The Body.” She is also the founder of the literary magazine Constellations. I had the privilege to interview her on my Somerville Community Access TV show “Poet to Poet: Writer to Writer.”. Nina R. Alonso:. NRA: It was great working with ...
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Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene: Interview with Somerville poet Afaa Michael Weaver: A poet with a strong sense of responsibility.
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Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene. About the Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene. Thursday, August 06, 2015. Interview with Somerville poet Afaa Michael Weaver: A poet with a strong sense of responsibility. Interview with Somerville poet Afaa Michael Weaver: A poet with a strong sense of responsibility. 8221;I am always of the pinon that when I write a poem, I try to write the best poem that I can. I try not to write a poem that is political and that is a very difficult thing to do. I...DH: Y...
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Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene: 05/31/2015 - 06/07/2015
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Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene. About the Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene. Friday, June 05, 2015. Talking with Michael C. Keith, author of the memoir “The Next Better Place”. Talking with Michael C. Keith, author of the memoir “The Next Better Place”. Q: Why did you use first person narrator? Q: How hard was it to capture the voice of the 11 year-old as a middle age adult? A: Surprisingly easy. I believe I had retained that 11 year-olds’ voice in my head my whole life. Fr...A: I think ...
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Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene: Buell Hollister: A Novelist with a Head for Shrunken Heads
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Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene. About the Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene. Monday, August 03, 2015. Buell Hollister: A Novelist with a Head for Shrunken Heads. Buell Hollister: A Novelist with a Head for Shrunken Heads. Doug Holder: So how does a shrunken head by the name of Leeram come into play in your novel? DH: Was he fashioned after you at one point in your life? DH: Also the women in his life propelled him, right? DH: They all wind up in Fordlandia in Brazil. JOHN AMEN: PUTTING H...
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THE BAGEL BARDS: May 2010
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Saturday, May 8, 2010. Bagel Bard Lawrence Kessenich wins Strokestown International Poetry Award- -Ireland. I got this letter from Bagel Bard Lawrence Kessenich:. Sorry you weren't at Bagel Bards today. You missed an array of free pastries, which I bought to celebrate (drum roll, please) my winning FIRST PRIZE at the Strokestown International Poetry Festival in Ireland! Yes, out of 2,400 entries, my poem "Angelus" rose to the top, and I was awarded 4,000 euros! Http:/ www.strokestownpoetry.org/. I am hap...
