Reading in a New Jack City
As announced on Pornfeld, I will be reading with my fellow Mass. Cultural Council poetry fellows on April 10 in Lowell. The reading will be held at the New England Quilt Museum in downtown Lowell. I don't know Lowell too awful well. I've only been there once and that was when my brother-in-law graduated from UMass-Lowell. The graduation was held in Tsongas Arena, which was named for the late Senator from Massachusetts, Paul Tsongas. Tsongas had the distinction of losing the Democratic nomination to Bill Clinton in 1992. Interestingly enough, John Kerry (Kerry's Wikipedia page is quite extensive!) would succeed Tsongas as the junior Senator from Massachusetts. Kerry, a former district attorney of Middlesex County, was living in Lowell at the time. But perhaps more to the theme of a poetry reading, Lowell is also the hometown of Jack Keroac, author of On the Road, the book that made the "Beat Generation" famous. Remember, April is National Poetry Month! 
Edit: corrected reading date to April 10 (not 11) on 3/14/05.
Edit: corrected reading date to April 10 (not 11) on 3/14/05.