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From February, 2002 to March, 2009 I wrote a column called City Type for The Boston Globe. The columns were conversations with Boston-area writers and poets and are archived here.

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 poem of the month

Rochambeau

Looking back I’d
have to say that I was
scissors,
you were
rock,
though no real
breakage was involved and
things played back and forth quite
evenly, you just the
slightest bit ahead, and
through the years the
scissors
(edges eased to
harmlessness) and the tranqil
rock
reposed in amity while
something we did not yet know
was paper.

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readings

Thursday, May 10, 7 pm at Cambridge Public Library, Central Square. I will be reading with Susan Donnelly and Charles Coe.
good news

Garrison Picks Ellen:
My poem, "Letter Home" is in Garrison Keillor's new anthology, "Good Poems, American Places." Hear him read it.

One of my poems was nominated for a Pushcart Prize!

Here are two interviews I did, one on television and one for National Poetry Month (scroll down to April 30 to see it).

"Why I Write"--brief essays by poets, including me!

quote of the month

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

CenterPiece is a one-person play I have written and that I perform. It looks at the patchwork of life experiences we all share, from assimilating our family legends to learning about love and loss to finding our own voices and moving into the center of our lives. Click here for more info.
 
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