Poor Relations (Poem)

(Removed for publication consideration.)

Poet’s Moon Cafe (East Boston)

Poets’ Moon Cafe hosts a series (with open-mic followed by two features) in the gorgeous Cultural Exchange Center on the East Boston waterfront.   

 

4 Poems (July)

One of Those Mondays
Yeah, it’s Monday and I’m wearing Levi’s to work,
missing the train that would mean being late by
fifteen minutes instead of a half hour. But, hey,
who’s keeping track of me anyhow—the kid dozing
in the corner in rainbow-skulled pants, eyes capped
tight with an unofficial, yellow-B’d Sox hat?
Hell.  Only at Back Bay, and the reader [...]

North Shore Writers’ Group

A new North Shore Writers’ Group (The Parlor) has formed, and I heard Hannah Tinti read from her debut novel The Good Thief in her native town Salem.  The setting is a fictional yet familiar-seeming New England town.  The main character reminds one of Johnny Tremain and a few good Dickens protagonists rolled into one. 
The talkshow-style [...]