Our poet this week for Lyrical Somerville is Angie Kahn. Angie Kahn has recently moved to Somerville from Stamford, CT, where she was an Urban Planner. However, because she is the daughter of a writer, Angie spends much of her time reading and writing. She has previously been published in the Sparrowgrass Poetry Forum
To have your poems considered for the “Lyrical” send them to:
Doug Holder, 25 School St., Somerville, Mass. 02143  or dougholder@post.harvard.edu

Fans of the Walsh Brothers, who will perform this weekend at Jimmy Tingle’s Off-Broadway Theater (Friday 7 p.m., Saturday 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., tickets $15, $7 students go to jtoffbroadway.com for more info or call the box office at 617-691-1616.), should hold out hope that someone taped their first performance together. From the way they tell it, it seemed to have all the elements of a classic Walsh Brothers routine: props, characters, a surreal setting, and sensitive subject matter. The only problem was, it also had the Mayor of Boston hiding his head under his table.

Somerville has been described as the “Paris of New England,” and no wonder; in this often overlooked city that looms in the shadow of Boston and Cambridge, lies a rich mother lode of artists, poets and writers.
One of the artistic denizens of our beloved burg is poet/musician Dick Lourie. Lourie has been an editor for the small press “Hanging Loose.”
The press, founded in 1966, publishes “Hanging Loose” magazine, and individual collections of poetry. “Hanging Loose” is one of the oldest continually running small literary presses in the country.
It specializes in bringing new writer’s work to the surface. They have published books by such writers as: Sherman Alexie and Dennis Nurske, and continue to maintain relationships with writers they published more than 30 years ago.
Lourie is an accomplished poet in his own right.
He has published a number of collections of his own poetry, and in 2000 released a CD “Ghost Radio Blues” that mixes spoken word, with the Blues. His work has been in such magazines as: “Verse,” “Exquisite Corpse,” “Massachusetts Review,” and others.
He has edited two anthologies of high school writers with the “Hanging Loose Press,” and has worked extensively with students and teachers in poetry programs.
Lourie also excels in the medium of music.
He plays tenor sax and trumpet with a 50’s rock ‘n’ roll band as well as a “Doo-Wop” group.
He is retired from the University of Massachusetts at Boston, where he worked as an editor.

The rumor around Ward 5 is that John L. Sullivan, former aide to Tony LaFuente’s campaign, is considering a run for Ward Alderman against Sean O’Donovan.  We also hear that there may be a third candidate in that race – making a Primary in Ward 5.  Guess they plan on keeping Sean very busy this year and on his toes – not sleeping on the job. 

It would be nice, after all, to be able to reach Alderman O’Donovan other then at the 305 area code where he seems to be spending a lot of time lately – by the way, nice tan Sean.

Another rumor we recently heard was that on the statewide political scene – a name that keeps popping up is former Mayor Dorothy Kelly Gay.  She is supposedly considering a run for Secretary of State.  Close Newstalk insiders say she’s looking at the possibilities, especially if Bill Galvin, the present Secretary of State, is going to run for Governor.