— Photos by Claudia Ferro

Somerville resident and business owner Elio LoRusso’s band “Seabreeze” played at the St Peter’s Fiesta in Gloucester over the weekend. The St. Peter’s Fiesta is a five day festival honoring the patron saint of the fisherman St. Peter.

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Somerville Bagel Bard Alice Weiss reviews a new collection from poet Jennifer Barber:

Spare and lovely, the poems in Jennifer Barber’s Works on Paper resonate with answerings. Not just call and response or antiphon, although that is there too, her poems seek out the moment when, even though the call is inaudible, there is something. In Source, the opening poem, the leaves, hearing the rain before it sounds, lean “toward the place where the rain is about to begin … widening the surface of their urgency, their need/to register each shifting of air.” In Assembling a Psalm, phrases propose a psalm, without being one, and at the same time, being one: the sun, the cedars, grass like flesh, and where is she? She doesn’t know and not knowing still, and we find an answering:

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Robert K. Johnson is a consulting editor for Ibbetson Street magazine and was for many years a professor of English at Suffolk University, teaching the work of such writers as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dante, Wordsworth, Flaubert, and Frost. He has written several collections of poems, and two non-fiction books (one on Francis Ford Coppola, the other on Neil Simon). His poems appear in many publications including Webster Review, Main Street Rag, New York Times, Chiron Review, and Minotaur.

Arrests:
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Carlos Rodriguez, June 20, 12:46 p.m., arrested at Middlesex Ave. on warrant charges of miscellaneous equipment violation and unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.

Lisa Primeau, June 21, 9:54 a.m., arrested at Boston St. on charges of distribution of a class A drug and conspiracy to violate drug law, and on warrant charges of no inspection sticker, operation of a motor vehicle with a suspended registration, and uninsured motor vehicle or trailer.

Walking Dialogues with Police, Youth and Community 2016 series begin tonight. — Photo by Donald Norton

The City of Somerville’s Police Department and the Center for Teen Empowerment invite you to join police, youth and community members in a series of Walking Dialogues and community social events. There will be multiple locations to share your thoughts and identify concerns for action. For additional information contact John Norena at jnorena@teenempowerment.org.

The City of Somerville and Shape Up Somerville, in partnership with Groundwork Somerville, announces the return of the Somerville Mobile Farmers’ Market for its sixth season, beginning on Friday, July 8. The Somerville Mobile Farmers’ Market sells fresh, local produce. Receive 50% off your purchase if you are a resident of North Street Housing or Mystic Housing, or for showing your SNAP card, WIC card, or Senior Farmers’ Market Coupons. The Mobile Market accepts cash, credit, debit, SNAP EBT, WIC Farmers’ Market Coupons, and Senior Farmers’ Market Coupons. All are welcome! The Mobile Market makes stops at the following locations:

Yani Batteau

Back in 2010 I interviewed musician and artist Yani Batteau at the Bloc 11 Cafe. Since then she has moved to Medford from Somerville because of the astronomical rents she experienced. I revisited Batteau at the same spot at the Bloc some six years later, to catch up on her art and life. We talked about the gentrification of Somerville, her “American Soul” brand of music, and her art.

Patricia Vossler of Somerville has joined  (SAA) to make a splash for pediatric cancer programs at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and MassGeneral Hospital for Children Cancer Center. Vossler will swim in the 20^th annual Boston Harbor Swim on July 8, alongside Olympians Carlton Bruner, Janel Jorgensen McArdle, Kristy Kowal, Heather Petri, Craig Beardsley, and Erik Vendt.

Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, Ward 5 Alderman Mark Niedergang, and the Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development invite the public to a Hoyt-Sullivan Playground community meeting to discuss potential renovations. The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, June 29, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the third-floor community room at the Visiting Nurses Association Building, 259 Lowell St. All are welcome to share ideas that will help to shape the design of the new playground.