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February 1
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I am a lover of irony. It seems that a Somerville Bagel Bard Zvi A. Sesling (Who resides in Brookline) lobbied and spurred the city on to have a Brookline Poet Laureate. I told him about the lack of interest in our beloved burg and it inspired him to get one for his town…they finally saw the light. The light in Somerville is still way, way at the end of the tunnel…sadly. Here is an article by Sesling about how he did it…
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January 25
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Lawrence Kessenich is one of the managing editors of the literary magazine Ibbetson Street. He is also a former editor at Houghton Mifflin and worked with Diana Hume George and Diane Wood Middlebrook on the Selected Poems of Anne Sexton as well as a subsequent biography. He was generous enough to send this essay about his experiences to the Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene.
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January 18
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– Photo by Stu Rosner
Janet Mendelsohn is a passionate writer who writes about other people’s passions. This Davis Square resident has the ability to hone in on her subject like some predatory literary bird, and peck out what makes them tick—to strain an analogy. I met Mendelsohn on a warm October morning in one of my favorite haunts in Union Square, the Sherman Cafe.
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January 11
Jesse Morgan is a literary enthusiast and amateur poet. He received his undergraduate degree in political science from Brown University in 2010. He currently lives in Stow, Massachusetts.
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James Caroline started out mainly as a Slam poet getting his feet wet at the famed Cantab Lounge in Cambridge, Mass. when it was under the reign of Michael Brown. Since then he has become as respected on the stage as the page. And in fact the poetry is much more important to him than the performance.__________________________________________________________________
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