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08/02/2023

07/02/2023

We're taking a late afternoon dive into oceanic Iowa, as it existed 359–352 million years ago. Sometime during this window, USNM specimen 6094 was living its best life.

The fossils preserved here, and on view in , are mostly crinoids. During the Paleozoic Era, crinoid forests covered the seafloor and were akin to the colorful coral reefs found today.

Dense clusters of delicate sea lilies prospered in shallow seas, gathering food in their feathery arms. Different species grew to different heights and evolved arms of many shapes. Most species disappeared in a mass extinction 252 million years ago. Because of their hard skeletons, they left spectacular fossils.

Though not as dominant as they once were, crinoids still exist. Those that have a stalk are commonly referred as sea lilies, while those that float freely in the water are called feather stars. Both have frilled arms with branches, called pinnules, that give them a feathered appearance.

12/12/2022

Big success at Stephen O'Connor book party at Athenian Corner restaurant on Dec. 10, 2022. Thanks to Lowell Cultural Council for the photographs.

11/12/2022

Boston Globe's Nina MacLaughlin reviews Steve O'Connor's new stories. Thank you to NM and BG.

Literary news from around the region.

10/12/2022

Join acclaimed poets Maya Janson and former Concord resident Helena Minton who will read and engage in a Q & A about their craft. This event will take place in-person in the Goodwin Forum at the Main Library.  PLEASE REGISTER BELOW FOR A SEAT IN THE GOODWIN FORUMMaya Janson reads from On the Mercy ...

18/11/2022

If you are between the ages of 13 and 19, you should know that we are starting a new weekly workshop series at Lowell High led by FreeVerse! alums and headed toward some cool events, both in the near future and the new year. The workshops are Wednesdays from 2:45 to 4:15, and we do sharing, writing prompts, and feedback on works in progress. If you are interested (or you know of a teen who might be), email us at [email protected], and we will give you more info. Get Free, Poet! Get FreeVerse!

21/08/2022

https://www.loompress.com/store/paris-paint-box

Paris Paint Box, New and Selected Poems, brings together over forty-five years of poetry by Helena Minton. The book opens with a sequence about the life and work of the French Impressionist painter, Berthe Morisot.

10/08/2022

My earliest encounters with poetry were through the Bible. As a young person raised Catholic the poems and songs of that ritualistic life were my first major exposure to poetry.  Little poetry resonated with me in formal schooling.  It wasn’t until I started listening to Bob Dylan in high school...

10/08/2022

Another episode from Carla Panciera, whose book of stories will be published next spring by Loom Press.

This is the fifth in a series of posts that I will be doing about the 30 years it took me to compile a collection of short, autobiographical fiction based on growing up on my family’s dairy farm in…

06/08/2022

A poem for Sunday

05/08/2022

May 15, 2022 Two Poems from Bucha, Ukraine Lesyk Panasiu, with introduction by Ilya Kaminsky Guest Artists Poetry Ilya Kaminsky on Lesyk Panaisuk’s Poetry “Russian soldiers stayed in our building,” the poet Lesyk Panaisuk wrote to me a few weeks ago. When the war began, Lesyk left Bucha in a h...

04/08/2022

Martín Espada giving us the news in poetry.

For Camilo Pérez-Bustillo and the city of El Paso A freak fall, you said. A bad landing, you said, a Colombian from Queens always wandering a map of unknown places. The tumble down the stairs of the brownstone in Brooklyn ripped your knees from their moorings, ruptured both quadriceps, and in the w...

25/07/2022

Follow Carla Panciera's account of her forthcoming book of stories going from an idea to a finished book. The stories are due from Loom Press next April.

This is the fourth in a series of posts that I will be doing about the 30 years it took me to compile a collection of short, autobiographical fiction based on growing up on my family’s dairy farm i…

15/07/2022

Author Carla Panciera's inside story of stories in her forthcoming book from Loom Press, due next spring. Watch for continuing episodes here!

Homesick Tum-A-Lum Winner Darcy. Beautiful, right? (and that’s my dad at her halter). Recently, I said to my cousin, Jo, a painter: “I want to learn to paint. How do I go about learning how t…

14/07/2022

Behind the scene at bookstore events with award-winning author David Daniel, whose book of stories, "Beach Town," is due from Loom Press this fall. Great get, Dave.

David Daniel’s book of stories, Beach Town , is due from Loom Press in the fall. In this Boston Globe article he remembers fondly and with humor his many bookstore events as an author waiting for the public to buy his book and get a signature. Dave is the author of award-winning fiction. He lives

12/07/2022

Poetry, says Limón, can reclaim our humanity as we've "been bouncing from trauma to trauma."

09/07/2022

Reading in Lowell, Wed. July 20, 8 pm with open mic before. Thanks for the invitation.

The 3rd Wednesday is now Untitled! July 20, 6 to 9 pm Featuring Lowell’s own Paul Marion Editor of The Lowell Review Author of Mill Power A vital force force for literature in and around the Mill City! The Untitled Open Mic is excited to announce we are

02/07/2022

The remarkable life and writings of Mary Folsom Blair will be the focus of a Book Club in September thanks to the Southeast Land Trust of N.H. and Water Street Bookstore of Exeter. Kudos to author Phil Primack for documenting Mary's story in a new Loom Press book.

“Mary E. Folsom Blair was just a name on a listing sheet when young writer Phil Primack bought her Epping, New Hampshire, property in 1974. As he learned more about this lifelong teacher, Quaker, and early advocate for outdoor education, his reporter bones began to twitch.

24/06/2022

Loom Press is proud to be the publisher of Carla Panciera's stories, forthcoming in Spring 2023. We'll be watching for each new installment about the life of this literary project.

This is the first in a series of posts that I will be doing about the 30 years it took me to compile a collection of short, autobiographical fiction based on growing up on my family’s dairy farm in…

21/06/2022

Thanks to the Eagle-Tribune for this story about Dennis DiZoglio's book about making local government work for everyone. Please order at Loom Press or other outlets.

METHUEN — Former Mayor Dennis DiZoglio recently published “The Value of Political Capit$l,” a book looking back on more than three decades of his life that were dedicated to public

14/06/2022

Big thanks to Doug Holder and reviewer Dannis Daly of 'Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene' for telling readers why they should scoop up the new collection by Kevin Gallagher, THE WILD GOOSE. If you are Irish or Irish American or Boston Irish or Bostonian or none of these and simply a discerning reader, please get this for your summer book bag. Available everywhere online including Loom Press dot com.

The Wild Goose Poems By Kevin Gallagher Loom Press www.loompress.com 67 Pages $20.00 Review by Dennis Daly No writer distills...

02/06/2022

Loom Press author Kevin Gallagher gets noticed here for a reading in Gloucester. Thanks to thecricket.com for the write-up on Kevin and his new collection of poems, The Wild Goose, available at loompress.com and all outlets.

When the Rocky Neck Cultural Center opened its doors for a Gloucester Writers Center poetry reading May 19, a dormant component of Cape Ann’s creative culture was revitalized.Live readings are

18/05/2022

New book by a writer with roots in the Lowell/Dracut, Mass. area. Thanks to Jessica Moore Wilson for the tip.

17/05/2022

Forthcoming this summer from Loom Press, the poetry of Helena Minton of Andover, Mass., including a new long poem about Berthe Morisot, a remarkable French artist from the Impressionist era. Available to order now at loompress.com

Paris Paint Box, New and Selected Poems, brings together over forty-five years of poetry by Helena Minton. The book opens with a sequence about the life and work of the French Impressionist painter, Berthe Morisot.

15/05/2022

Loom Press will publish Phil Primack's book about the fascinating teacher and writer Mary Folsom Blair of N.H. in July. Available for orders now at loompress.com. Today's Boston Globe Magazine has Phil's story of finding his Romanian pen pal from the 1960s after decades being out of touch with each other.

Recently, I learned that my trip in the 1970s was considered a "stain" on the file Romanian authorities kept on my friend and his family.