Anthology of writing and images from ten years of the RichardHowe.com blog (2007-16) that document the way of life in a small, highly diverse American city that is a national park commemorating the Industrial Revolution.

History as It Happens: Citizen Bloggers in Lowell, Mass.

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Anthony Accardi

Loom Press

Cameo Diner: Poems

Matt Miller

The Dreams of Mary Rowlandson

Hilary Holladay

Dogtown has long provided inspiration for poets and fiction writers including early 20th century poet and playwright Percy MacKaye, who sought to create a poetic form of democratic drama for America, Gloucester s two epic poets, Charles Olson and Vincent Ferrini, and contemporary best-selling author Anita Diamant. A visit to Dogtown revitalized the work of the great American painter Marsden Hartley, as the two exhibits of his work by the Cape Ann Museum have shown. Until now, Elyssa East's Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town has done the best job of weaving together the various threads that create the fabric of the experience of the place that is Dogtown, and now James Scrimgeour comes forward with the single imaginative artistic work about Dogtown that I've been waiting for. While reading James Scrimgeour's collection of Dogtown poems, I am struck by the many voices I hear, or more precisely, the voices Scrimgeour enables me to hear. Marsden Hartley characterized Dogtown as a combination of Stonehenge and Easter Island, an apt analogy that makes me realize those places that fascinate us the most harbor voices that speak to us and tell us of the numinosity of those places, that is, what makes them supernatural and mysterious. The voices in these poems of Scrimgeour's bring Dogtown alive in a multi-dimensional way that comes as close, in my judgement, as anyone has come so far to capturing the complete essence of Dogtown. When I finish reading these poems, when I have heard all the voices they contain, I think of Dogtown as if it is a sentient, breathing organism, and I marvel at my appreciation and understanding not only of the experience of Dogtown in particular, but also of the experience of place in general. In this collection of poems, we are also invited to reach out and touch Marsden Hartley, Charles Olson and all the other writers and artists inspired by Dogtown. We are invited to reach across the centuries and make the lives of Dogtowners object lessons for our own lives. We are invited to appreciate the plants and flowers of Dogtown and to understand its geology as embodied by the terminal moraine, the rocks and the boulders, and the erratics. We are invited to receive the inscribed truths that Roger Babson sought to convey. We are invited to visit Dogtown, to walk around, to experience that place for ourselves in our own way, to hear voices and to be guided by the approach taken by James Scrimgeour in this transcendent collection of poems that will take its place as a culminating work within the literature of Dogtown. -Carl Carlsen

Voices of Dogtown

Literature & Fiction

James R. Scrimgeour

Poetry

Anthology of stories, essays, and poems by contemporary writers from Cork, Ireland, and Lowell, Massachusetts

Atlantic Currents: Connecting Cork and Lowell

Michael Casey

Stephan Anstey

Joey Bahn

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Literary

A collection of poems by Eric Linder including work from the 1970s through 2020. Linder's insight, wit, and precise lines combine to make poems that you will want to go back to time and again. With a clear eye and open heart he gets to the nub of situations, life's puzzles, and the absurdities of daily life. His work has appeared in The Quarterly, Harvard Magazine, Light Year: The Annual of Light Verse and Funny Poems, Bellingham Review, and Tightrope.

The Blue in the Eye of the Girl at La Jolla: New and Selected Poems

Eric Linder

THE MAN I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE is an eloquent, vivid new collection of poems from a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Set in the mountainous rainforests of the Pacific Northwest, these poems capture with startling clarity a people and a terrain that is both dark and beautiful.

The Man I Was Supposed To Be

John Struloeff

Artist Linda Hoffman saved an orchard and reshaped her life at Old Frog Pond Farm in Harvard, Massachusetts. When she moved to the farm she didn't know anything about apple-growing. More than twenty years later, the farm is one of the few organic pick-your-own orchards in New England, as well as a hub for a thriving community of visual artists, writers, and spiritual seekers. Hoffman, the mother of three children, a Zen practitioner, and a breast cancer survivor, has now written about her extraordinary journey in The Artist and the Orchard: A Memoir.

The Artist and the Orchard: A Memoir

Hoffman, Linda

Arts & Photography

The Fogg is a map of real and imagined streets, famous and obscure paintings and minds of figures in those paintings. The poems found here are layered with detours, cluttered with ordinary objects made metaphysically strange...There is a connectedness created through the poet's seeking out interior needs. Alfred Bouchard searches for 'second-hand memories' in galleries of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University to inform his own dreams and memories, to expose his own eyes and heart to the buried need. ...The Fogg as a whole details how the old, the innocent, the corrupted, and even the imagined live and die 'Still terribly young in their need.' -- David Robinson, from the Introduction

The Fogg

Alfred Bouchard

In his first collection, Stephen O'Connor arrives fully formed as a writer--with 13 memorable stories filled with characters pulled from the streets, bars, and parishes of his historic mill-city: Lowell, Mass. He digs deep and find the essential humanity in the high and low of our daily rounds. Admired for his clear narrative style and fine ear for dialogue, O'Connor invents a world in these stories that lets us see and hear the essential drama in what might appear to be undramatic lives at first glance. His characters arise from the people whose stories often go untold. His readers are richer for the encounters in these pages.

Smokestack Lightning: Stories

Stephen O'Connor

Short Stories & Anthologies

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