Guest Info : : UMass Lowell

Thursday, March 29

Guest Host
Marie Sweeney
Board Member
Community Teamwork, Inc.
[Web] http://www.comteam.org/

Focus on Arts
Dave Robinson
[Email] Dave_Robinson@uml.edu

The 3rd Annual Celebration of National Poetry Month in Lowell!
Brought to you by the Lowell Poetry Network
All events are free and open to the public!

April 5, 12, 19, 26, 30, 7:15 a.m., Thursdays
Working Poets on WUML
91.5 FM on your dial, “Sunrise”
Featuring poets from the Lowell Poetry Network and UMass Lowell: Kate Hanson, Major Jackson, Al Bouchard, Gigi Thibodeau, Paul Marion and Hilary Holladay. Tune in!

April 5, Thursday, 7 p.m.
Lowell Poetry Open Mic and Poetry Slam
Brew’d Awakening, 61 Market St.
Sign up to read between 6:30 - 7. A prize will be awarded for the winner of the poetry slam! Visit http://brewdawakening.com.

April 11, Wednesday, 7 p.m.
Urban Village Arts Series Special Edition
119 Gallery, 119 Chelmsford St., Lowell
Lowell native and former poet laureate of Alaska, Tom Sexton gives his first reading in his hometown! Michael Casey’s “Obscenities” won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award; he is also a Lowell native. Michael will read from his latest work. See: http://119gallery.org/ for more.

April 15, Sunday, 2 p.m.
National Poetry Month Celebration
Arts League of Lowell Gallery, 246 Market St., next to the National Park Visitor Center
Featuring poets from the Lowell Poetry Network: Billy Perrault, Al Bouchard, Ed Marshall, Judith Bessette, Walter Bacigalupo and Helena Minton.

April 25 & 26, Wed. and Thurs.
3rd Annual N.E. Poetry Conference
O’Leary Library, Room 222 (auditorium), UML South, 61 Wilder St.
Featuring: Michael Frye, Hilary Holladay, Major Jackson, Ed Marshall, WD Snodgras and more. For a full schedule of events see: www.uml.edu/poetryconference.

April 29, Sunday, 2 p.m.
A Poetry Reading for National Poetry Month
National Park Visitor Center
UML English Dept. Prof. Hilary Holladay will read from her book The Dreams of Mary Rowlandson; Paul Marion, UML’s Executive Director for Outreach, will read from his collection What is the City? which includes his Lowell poems from the past 30 years.

Sponsored by:

THE LOWELL POETRY NETWORK,

Lowell Cultural Council, Patrick J. Mogan Cultural Center, Cultural Organization of Lowell / COOL, Sunrise, WUML 91.5, UMass Lowell Office of Outreach, UML English Dept., Dr. Melissa Pennell, UML’s Kerouac Center for American Studies, Arts League of Lowell / ALL, Moses Greeley Parker Lectures, 119 Gallery, Lowell: the Flowering City, Lowell Heritage Partnership

Interview
Jeanne Whitten
Methuen School Superintendent
[Email] jewhitten@methuen.k12.ma.us
[Web] http://www.methuen.k12.ma.us/

Interview
Dan McNeil
Community Software Lab
[Email] dan@thecsl.org
[Web] http://www.thecsl.org/

Interview
Joel Tickner
UMass Professor
[EMail] Joel_Tickner@uml.edu

Wednesday, March 28

Guest Host
Jim Wilde
Executive Director
Merrimack Valley Housing Partnership
[Web] http://www.mvhp.org/

Focus on Health
Janice Hrenko-Boyd
Elder Services of the Merrimack Valley
[Web]

Interview
George Proakis
Cheif Planner
City of Lowell
[Email] gproakis@ci.lowell.ma.us
[Web] http://www.lowellma.gov/

Interview
Atef Ghobrial
UMass Lowell Professor

Sunrise Bookshelf
Becky Herrmann
Director
Chelmsford Public Library
[Email] bherrmann@mvlc.org
[Web] http://www.chelmsfordlibrary.org/

Becky Recommends:

Children's Books
Here's a Little Poem by Jane Yolen
Junie B. Jones, First Grader, Dumb Bunny by Barbara Park
Max Counts his Chickens by Rosemary Wells.

Fiction
Astrid & Veronika by Linda Olsson
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
March by Geraldine Brooks

Seasonal- Basketball -- Weddings
Pistol : the life of Pete Maravich by Mark Kriegel
Simple Stunning Wedding Showers by Karen Bussen

Cookery
The New InterCourses: An Aphrodisiac Cookbook by Martha Hopkins and Randall Lockridge
Vegetable Harvest by Patricia Wells --to be released April 10th

Gardening
Wild Braid by Stanley Kunitz
Down & Dirty: 43 Fun & Funky First-time Projects & Activities to Get You Gardening (Paperback) by Ellen ZachosM

Poetry
The Light Within the Light:Portraits of Donald Hall, Richard Wilbur, Maxine Kumin, and Stanley Kunitz by Jeanne Braham, illustrated by Barry Moser

Monday, March 26

Focus on Business
Randy Breton
Rob Breton
Co-Founders
LowellRocks.com
[Web] http://www.LowellRocks.com

Interview
Drew Gallagher
Volunteer
[Web] http://www.dominicandream.org/

Interview
Susan Thompson
Rosenie Dorce
Rita Ofori-Frimpong
Gathering at the Well: Who Cares? The People, Policies, and Politics of Care work.
[Web] http://www.uml.edu/centers/women-work/workshop/workindex.html

Interview
Michael Lafleur
Sun Reporter
[Web] http://www.lowellsun.com/

Friday, March 23

Focus on Travel
Melissa Pennel
UMass Lowell Professor
English Department
[Email] Melissa_Pennell@uml.edu
[Web] http://faculty.uml.edu/mpennell/

Melissa Pennell discusses spring bird migration – and other avian issues.

Interview
Jack Neary
Playwright
[Email] jackneary3@aol.com
[Web] http://jacknearyonline.com/

Interview
Allan Knee
Author
[Web] http://www.merrimackrep.org/home/default.asp?h=

Thursday, March 22

Inteview
Richard Howe Jr.
Lowell Political Blogger
[Email] Richard-Howe@comcast.net
[Web] http://www.richardhowe.com/

Inteview
John Wooding
UMass Lowell Provost
[Email] John_Wooding@uml.edu

William Moylan
UMass Lowell Music Dept. Chair
[Email] william_moylan@uml.edu
[Web] http://www.uml.edu/College/arts_sciences/music/default.html

Interview
Michelle Gagnon
UMass Lowell Art Gallery Coordinator
[Email] Michele_Gagnon@uml.edu
[Web] http://www.uml.edu/dept/art/gallery.htm

Wednesday, March 21

Guest Host
Mehmed Ali
Director
Mogan Cultural Center
[Email] mehmed_ali@nps.gov
[Web] http://www.nps.gov/archive/lowe/2002/mogan/index.htm

Focus on Health
Shannon Mooney
Dietician
Lowell General Hospital
[Web] http://www.lowellgeneral.org

Interview

Matt Fitzpatrick and Amy Werner
Co-founders of Young Professionals of Greater Lowell
[Web] http://www.ypgl.org/

Interview
Jessica Batchelder
UMass Lowell Equestrian Club
[Web] http://umlequestrian.com/default.aspx

Interview
Heather Makrez
UMass Lowell Student Trustee

Stephen Holstrom
President
Umass Lowell Student Government Association
[Email] Stephan_Holstrom@student.uml.edu
[Web] http://www.uml.edu/sga/index.htm

Sunrise Bookshelf
Maureen Nimmo
Director
Lawrence Public Library
[Web]http://www.lawrencefreelibrary.org/

Weird New York

Tuesday, March 20

Guest Host
Jane Calvin
Executive Director
Lowell Parks and Conservation Trust
[Web] http://www.lowelllandtrust.org/

Interview

Arthur L.Boland, M.D.
Orthopaedic Surgery
Mass General Hospital
[Web] http://www.massgeneral.org/

Interview
Valerie Kijewski
UMass Lowell Professor
College of Management
[Email] Valerie_Kijewski@uml.edu

Sheila Webber
UMass Lowell Professor
College of Management
[Email] Sheila_Webber@uml.edu

Interview

Craig Robertson
Musician
Ukulele Noir
[Email] craig@ukulelenoir.com
[web] http://www.ukulelenoir.com/

Robert Wheeler
Musician, Founder
Ukulele Consiousness
[Web] http://rockthatuke.com/

Monday, March 19

Focus on Business
Rober Halpin
Executive Director
Merrimack Valley Economic Development Council
[Web] http://www.merrimackvalley.info/

Interview
John Duffy
UMass Lowell Professor
Mechanical Engineering
[Email] john_duffy@uml.edu

Jorge Barrientos and Manuel Heredia
Peruvian Graduate Students

Bernie Lynch
Lowell City Manager
[Email] citymanager@lowellma.gov
[Web] http://www.lowellma.gov

Wednesday, March 7

Guest Host
Jon Geer
President
Keep Lowell Beautiful
[Web] http://www.keeplowellbeautiful.org/

Focus on Health
Alyssa Dver
Family Saftey Expert, CEO
Wander Wear, Inc.
[web] http://www.wander-wear.com/

A Conversation With
Paul Georges
President
United Teachers of Lowell

Interview
Finbar Wright

The Irish Tenors
[Web] http://www.finbarwright.com/
[Web] http://www.theirishtenors.info/

Tuesday, March 6

Guest Host
Faye Morrison

Former Ayer Selectwoman
Civil Rights Activist

Interview
Karen Frederick
Executive Director
Marie Sweeney
Board Member
Community Teamwork, Inc.
[Web] http://www.comteam.org/

Interview
Karla Brooks Baehr

Superintendant
Lowell Public Schools
[Web] http://www.lowell.k12.ma.us/

Interview
Deb Busser
UMass Lowell Professor
Author of New Easy Women: Unleash Your Creational Powe
[web] http://www.debbusser.com/index.htm

Interview
John Schneider
President
MassInc
[Email] jschneider@massinc.org
[Web] http://www.masinc.org/

Monday, March 5

Focus on Business
Matt Fitzpatrick
Vice President
Investment Advisory Services at Enterprise Bank

Interview
Craig Sandler
President and General Manager
State House News Service
[Email] craig.sandler@statehousenews.com
[Web] http://www.statehousenews.com/public/

Interview
Ashley Mowry
Meri Moll
Mothers of Rock
[Web] http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=36955447

Interview
Chris Scott
City Editor
The Lowell Sun
[Email] cscott@lowellsun.com
[Web] http://www.lowellsun.com/

Friday, March 2

Guest Host
Bruce Robinson
Vice President
Fred C. Church Insurance
[Email] brobinson@fredcchurch.com
[Web] http://www.fredcchurch.com/

Weather Watch
Will Sheridan
UMass Lowell Student Meteorologist
[Email] Will_Sheridan@student.uml.edu

Interview
Stephanie Bucholz
Young Women's Coordinator
United Teen Equality Center (UTEC)
[Email] stephanie@utec-lowell.org
[Web] http://www.utec-lowell.org/

Thursday, March 1

Guest Host

Jack Neary
Playwright
[Email] jackneary3@aol.com
[Web] http://jacknearyonline.com/

Eye on the Economy
Rober Forrant
UMass Lowell Professor
[Email] rforrant@external.umass.edu
[Web] http://www.uml.edu/Dept/RESD/forrant.htm

Interview
Kate Watt
WUML News Director
[Email] news@wuml.org
[Web] http://wumlnews.blogspot.com

Interview
Marty Meehan

US Fifth District Congressman
[Web] http://www.house.gov/meehan/

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