Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene

  Red Letter Poem #204    Two Poems       ––Yuliya Musakovska  Year’s End  The year rolls to its end lik...

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 Article by Doug HolderSince Harvard University has a course on Taylor Swift in their catalogue, I thought, " What the heck, maybe I could use Swift as a teaching tool." During class we disc...

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 om the classroom: By Doug HolderSo- I taught Ginsberg's Howl the other day--out of 36 students in two classes--only one knew who he was. So, I was glad to talk a bit about Ginsberg and...

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 The Red Letters  In ancient Rome, feast days were indicated on the calendar by red letters.To my mind, all poetry and art serves as a reminder that every day w...

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 Arts and Animals: Poems by David CampbellGoose River Press, 2022 95 pages $14.95Review by Off the Shelf Correspondent Denise ProvostEspecially in Somerville, many will recognize David Campb...

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 Climate Capitalism by Akshat Rathi. Greystone Books, London, 2024.  Review by Ed Meek  We Have Made Progress  In 2007, Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth warns of melting...

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 The Red Letters  In ancient Rome, feast days were indicated on the calendar by red letters.To my mind, all poetry and art serves as a reminder that every day w...

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 Discipline by Debra Spark. Four Way Books, Tribeca, 306 pages. $19.95.   Review by Ed Meek   Debra Spark is the author of a number of novels and short story collections as well as...

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  Article byMichael SteffenTo dot our i’s and cross our t’s, technically Shakespeare would be measured as the greatest dramatist of the English language. He has been vaulted to post...

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  The Red Letters  In ancient Rome, feast days were indicated on the calendar by red letters.To my mind, all poetry and art serves as a reminder that every ...

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Somerville Poet Laureate Lloyd Schwartz contacted me recently about a reading he has organized that will take place April 28, 2024 -- 5:30 PM at the Somerville Arts Armory in Somerville. I decide...

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 The Red Letters  In ancient Rome, feast days were indicated on the calendar by red letters.To my mind, all poetry and art serves as a reminder that every day w...

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Recently, I caught up with the accomplished poet and artist Bridget Seley Galway, before her exhibit of her work at the Cultural House in Union Square, Sat, March 30, 2024  5:30 to 8PM. Ther...

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 REVIEW BY KAREN KLEINThe poems in Peter Crowley’s Empire’s End reflect the divided consciousness expressed in the difference between the image on the front cover and the image on t...

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 The Red Letters  In ancient Rome, feast days were indicated on the calendar by red letters.To my mind, all poetry and art serves as a reminder that every day w...

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 Knock-knockBy Owen LewisDos Madres Press www.dosmadres.comLoveland, OhioISBN: 978-1-962847-01-835 PagesReview by Dennis DalyDoes surpassing life’s expectancy bestow any extraordinary bles...

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Forget About Sleep, Miriam Levine, NYQ Books, The New York Quarterly Foundation, Inc., P.O. Box 470, Beacon, NY 12508, 95 pages, www.nyq.org. Book Review by Sarah SternMiriam Levine's sixth ...

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 Red Letter Poem #198  Three Short-form Poems     ––Andrea Cohen        Regarding My Delay       I’ve be...

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 Cost of LivingReview of Cost of Living, a play by Martyna MajokSpeak Easy Stage, at the Calderwood Pavilion through March 30, 2024By Andy HoffmanCost of Living, which won the 2018 Pulitzer ...

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 Interview conducted by Doug Holder/Co-President of the New England Poetry ClubRecently --I had the chance to speak to playwright Andy Dolan, about a one man show he wrote concerning the lat...

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 The Rape of Lucrece narrative poem by William Shakespeare a reading to wish the Bard a happy 460th ! upon his birthday April 23rd Tuesday, at 7pm in the Auditorium of the Somerville Pu...

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 Blues, Prayers, & Pagan ChantsPoems by Diane SahmsAlien Buddha Press abuddhapress@yahoo.comISBN: 979887373458086 PagesReview by Dennis DalyAre there parallel universes that complete us,...

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    (Somerville, Ma)Ibbetson Street Magazine founded in 1998 on Ibbetson Street in Somerville, MA. by Doug Holder, Richard Wilhelm and Dianne Robitaille, will be having a reading o...

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 The Red Letters  In ancient Rome, feast days were indicated on the calendar by red letters.To my mind, all poetry and art serves as a reminder that every day w...

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I recently caught up with Somerville photographer Bruce Myren to conduct an interview about his life and his accomplished work.From his website:Bruce earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography...

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