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2022
Contributors
Sarah Alcott Anderson’s first collection of poetry, We Hold On To What We Can, was published in 2021. Her work has appeared in North American Review and Raleigh Review. A high school English teacher for eighteen years, she lives in Exeter, New Hampshire, with her husband and two children, where they run The Word Barn, a space for literary and musical events. Kathleen Aponick is a former teacher and textbook editor. Her poetry books include The Descendant’s Notebook, Bright Realm, The Port and Near the River’s Edge. With Paul Marion and Jane Brox, she co-edited Merrimack: A Poetry Anthology. Her poems have been in Poetry East, Notre Dame Review, and Potomac Review. She lives in Andover, Mass., with her husband, Tony. Born in Lowell, Mass., Susan April grew up in the Highlands neighborhood and later in the Collinsville section of Dracut nearby. Recent work has appeared in A Tether to This World: Stories and Poems About Recovery and When Home is Not Safe. Her essay in this issue of TLR, “Another Turn,” won the Shepherd University Common Reading Program essay contest in 2021. For many years, Alfred Bouchard has lived in Lowell with his wife, the painter Lieby Miedema. His book The Fogg features a probing sequence of poems written in response to artworks in the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, along with other work dealing with the relations between men and women, existential questions that arise on the street, and dreamscapes that beg meaning. Paul Brouillette is an architect living in Somerville, Mass. His interests include American literature, the design and impact of public monuments, and travels in the desert Southwest. His previous essays appeared in French Class: French Canadian-American Writings on Identity, Culture, and Place. Patricia Cantwell has taught drama and produced and presented a daily radio program. After twenty years as a lawyer, she sold her solicitor’s practice to concentrate on writing. In 2016, she won the “Emerging Poet” award at Carrick-on-Suir Writers Weekend while two of her poems were short-listed for the prestigious Bridport Prize, UK. Her poems have appeared in local collections.
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