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Review by Dennis Daly
First books of poetry rarely surprise. Clay Ventre’s initial collection, It’s Not Love Until Someone Loses An Eye, does. His first-rate love poems are off-beat and oddly self-demolishing. He chisels each quirky narrative to innovative perfection and then keeps on chiseling. The new, miniature worlds created by Ventre’s persona and his persona’s lover highlight reality’s instability and logical absurdness. But that’s alright. Creators (read poets), after all, are (for good or ill) gods and goddesses by virtue of their productions, and they make sense by rearranging the raw material of chaos.
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DeWitt Henry’s recent prose collection, Endings & Beginnings: Family Essays (MadHat Press, 2021), was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, 2022. His first poetry collection, Foundlings, is available from Life Before Man/Gazebo Books in September, 2022, and his second collection, Restless For Words: Poems, in November from Finishing Line Press. He was the founding editor of Ploughshares and is Prof. Emeritus at Emerson College. Details at www.dewitthenry.com.
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The Home Depot Foundation Grants Will Support Program Expansion and Facility Upgrades at the Massachusetts Bay Veterans Center in Somerville
Volunteers of America of Massachusetts (VOAMASS), a nonprofit that creates opportunities for individuals through residential and outpatient behavioral health treatment, re-entry for justice-involved individuals, veteran services and senior living, announced today that it has received two grants totaling more than $200,000 from The Home Depot Foundation for programs and projects at the Massachusetts Bay Veterans Center (MBVC) in Somerville.
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Medford Police Department is actively looking for Nature Moncoeur, 18, of Somerville. Moncoeur violated his probation by cutting off his GPS ankle monitor and there is an outstanding warrant for his arrest. Moncoeur is the suspect in the assault that took place on Royall Street in Medford on July 2, 2023.
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Nonprofit tenants notified in April of August 31 closure, recent findings underscore safety concerns; both nonprofits offered city support to assist with relocation
The Somerville Building Commissioner, in consultation with the Somerville Fire Chief, has ordered that the city’s 90-92 Union Square building close to the public on August 31 due to public safety risk. In 2019, city and independent inspectors determined that the building, which dates to the late 1880s, needed significant structural repair. Emergency repairs were made at the time, but the assessments found that complete gut renovation is required for full and lasting building repair. In early April, the city gave final notice to both tenants, two Somerville nonprofits, to close operations by the end of August to protect the public as well as the organizations’ staff, clients, and members. The city has voluntarily provided and offered both nonprofits a range of relocation support.
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Virtual meeting with City & School staff regarding the status of the Winter Hill Community School.
(The opinions and views expressed in the commentaries and letters to the Editor of The Somerville Times belong solely to the authors and do not reflect the views or opinions of The Somerville Times, its staff or publishers)
On Tuesday, August 15 from 7-9pm, the Center for Arts at the Armory will be hosting a community meeting during which we will:
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share our perspective on the City of Somerville’s “Armory Master Plan Process”
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educate our audience about our non-profit arts organization
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and provide opportunities for attendees to speak, ask questions, and have the meeting recording and this petition delivered to City government.
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