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New Poem: Montague Book MillThis poem is a love letter to the Montague Book Mill, a place where books, music, food, and ...
02/06/2026

New Poem: Montague Book Mill

This poem is a love letter to the Montague Book Mill, a place where books, music, food, and the sound of moving water come together in quiet defiance of speed and algorithms. It reflects on decades of personal connection and the enduring joy of getting lost on purpose. By a river that refuses to hush,where the dam keeps time with a steady rush,...

This poem is a love letter to the Montague Book Mill, a place where books, music, food, and the sound of moving water come together in quiet defiance of speed and algorithms. It reflects on decades…

New Poem: PeaceBirdsSome artworks do not try to explain the world. They try to hold it. The PeaceBirds Project, with its...
02/05/2026

New Poem: PeaceBirds

Some artworks do not try to explain the world. They try to hold it. The PeaceBirds Project, with its thousands of folded cranes and its invitation to gather, grieve, and create together, felt like that kind of work. This poem grew out of thinking about paper as witness, libraries as containers for unfinished histories, and the slow, deliberate acts that make solidarity visible....

Some artworks do not try to explain the world. They try to hold it. The PeaceBirds Project, with its thousands of folded cranes and its invitation to gather, grieve, and create together, felt like …

New Poem: When Lions Wake The StreetThis poem was inspired by the Lunar New Year parade moving through downtown Amherst,...
02/05/2026

New Poem: When Lions Wake The Street

This poem was inspired by the Lunar New Year parade moving through downtown Amherst, where traditional lion dance brings blessing, movement, and continuity to familiar streets. It reflects on how ritual briefly transforms everyday places, reminding a town that culture is something practiced, not archived. On a winter afternoon the town loosens its collar,February holding its breath just long enough....

This poem was inspired by the Lunar New Year parade moving through downtown Amherst, where traditional lion dance brings blessing, movement, and continuity to familiar streets. It reflects on how r…

UntitledThe Pioneer Valley has always been good at holding layers of time. Mills become studios, armories become data co...
02/05/2026

Untitled

The Pioneer Valley has always been good at holding layers of time. Mills become studios, armories become data corridors, rivers continue whether we name them or not. Reading about the quantum and AI infrastructure quietly taking shape here felt familiar, less like disruption and more like stewardship. This poem is part of my ongoing interest in how land, history, and emerging technology intersect, and how progress can arrive without erasing its roots....

The Pioneer Valley has always been good at holding layers of time. Mills become studios, armories become data corridors, rivers continue whether we name them or not. Reading about the quantum and A…

Tables For LoveThis poem reflects on the quiet role shared meals and intimate rooms play in long relationships. Rather t...
02/05/2026

Tables For Love

This poem reflects on the quiet role shared meals and intimate rooms play in long relationships. Rather than focusing on spectacle or destination, it lingers on the ordinary places where love learns how to last. It connects loosely to my ongoing How I Met Your Mother series, not as a song, but as a reflection on how time, patience, and shared presence shape a life together....

This poem reflects on the quiet role shared meals and intimate rooms play in long relationships. Rather than focusing on spectacle or destination, it lingers on the ordinary places where love learn…

Mishoon by FireThis poem grows out of a real event in Ashfield, Massachusetts: a traditional Mishoon burn, where a dugou...
02/05/2026

Mishoon by Fire

This poem grows out of a real event in Ashfield, Massachusetts: a traditional Mishoon burn, where a dugout canoe is shaped by fire in the presence of community. It reflects on Indigenous stewardship, cultural renewal, and the patience required to let land and history speak for themselves. Though it carries echoes of my ongoing “songs for the land” work, this piece is written as poetry, not performance, meant to sit with the reader rather than move them along....

This poem grows out of a real event in Ashfield, Massachusetts: a traditional Mishoon burn, where a dugout canoe is shaped by fire in the presence of community. It reflects on Indigenous stewardshi…

Bridge Street, Finding BalanceIn Shelburne Falls the river keeps its own calendar.Spring announces itself before the lea...
02/05/2026

Bridge Street, Finding Balance

In Shelburne Falls the river keeps its own calendar.Spring announces itself before the leaves,before the town believes it.The Green River swells and speaks louder,a rough syllable rolling through open windows,water practicing its long memory on stone.When I lived nearby I learned to sleep inside that sound,the way you learn a friend's breathing,the way place becomes a body you trust....

In Shelburne Falls the river keeps its own calendar.Spring announces itself before the leaves,before the town believes it.The Green River swells and speaks louder,a rough syllable rolling through o…

Booking Saint Patrick’s Day Events NOWA Bridegroom’s Delight is a traditional tune that carries celebration without exce...
02/03/2026

Booking Saint Patrick’s Day Events NOW

A Bridegroom’s Delight is a traditional tune that carries celebration without excess. We approached it the way these tunes were meant to be played, steady pulse, clear lift, and enough space for the melody to breathe. Celticado focused on groove and togetherness rather than flash, letting the tune do what it has always done best, move people and mark a happy moment. Booking Saint Patrick's Day Events NOW: 413-213-5767 Listen to this tune on BandCamp: Watch them play on YouTube:

A Bridegroom’s Delight is a traditional tune that carries celebration without excess. We approached it the way these tunes were meant to be played, steady pulse, clear lift, and enough space for th…

Behind The Song: Amhrán an FhadaisSome songs arrive fully formed. This one arrived like winter. Amhrán an Fhadais did no...
02/03/2026

Behind The Song: Amhrán an Fhadais

Some songs arrive fully formed. This one arrived like winter. Amhrán an Fhadais did not announce itself. It settled in slowly, the way cold does, almost unnoticed at first. Distance feels different once winter takes hold. Roads stretch. Waiting becomes heavier. Love does not disappear, but it has to move more carefully, conserving warmth. I turned to sean nós because it understands this instinctively....

Some songs arrive fully formed. This one arrived like winter. Amhrán an Fhadais did not announce itself. It settled in slowly, the way cold does, almost unnoticed at first. Distance feels different…

Behind The Song: Remember The JeanI have a long, personal relationship with the ocean, and that is what made writing Rem...
02/03/2026

Behind The Song: Remember The Jean

I have a long, personal relationship with the ocean, and that is what made writing Remember The Jean unavoidable rather than optional. In 1979, when I was a teenager, I spent six weeks with Outward Bound on Burnt Island off the coast of Maine. We lived in open pulling boats, fourteen of us to a craft, learning what it means to trust weather, tides, and each other....

I have a long, personal relationship with the ocean, and that is what made writing Remember The Jean unavoidable rather than optional. In 1979, when I was a teenager, I spent six weeks with Outward…

Behind The Song: Greenfield StringsI have always believed that music survives because it is passed along in rooms, not b...
02/02/2026

Behind The Song: Greenfield Strings

I have always believed that music survives because it is passed along in rooms, not because it is preserved in institutions. Watching a program like Greenfield Strings makes that belief feel very real. A gym or hall fills with kids carrying instruments that are bigger than they are, and suddenly something ancient and fragile keeps going another generation. What struck me most was not the polish....

I have always believed that music survives because it is passed along in rooms, not because it is preserved in institutions. Watching a program like Greenfield Strings makes that belief feel very r…

Behind The Song: If You Do NothingI lived in South Hadley for ten years, and for more than twenty after that I have kept...
02/02/2026

Behind The Song: If You Do Nothing

I lived in South Hadley for ten years, and for more than twenty after that I have kept property there, returning season after season. The town has never been just an address to me. It has been a place where life unfolded in layers. Mount Holyoke College has been woven through all of that time in quiet, steady ways. As a parent, some of my favorite memories are the simplest ones....

I lived in South Hadley for ten years, and for more than twenty after that I have kept property there, returning season after season. The town has never been just an address to me. It has been a pl…

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