(Photo credit: Carolina Porras Monroy) When I wrote this post on the Boiler House Poets Collective's tenth anniversary reading (and my birthday), I fully intended to post another couple of times during the residency, but that didn't work out, so this is my catch-up attempt to encapsulate the rest of the residency. Sunday was a busy day. Leery of being in an enclosed space with lots of people for over an hour, I opted for online mass.

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As I wrote about here, I am in North Adams for the 10th anniversary residency with my beloved Boiler House Poets Collective. It is unusually warm for early October this year, which is, unfortunately, riling up some of my health issues, but I did manage to spend some time in the buildings at MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) yesterday.

The Illinois native’s comments come a week after the U.S. president derided the fight against climate change.

As you may have surmised from the post about our reading on this Saturday, I am once again in North Adams in residence with the Boiler House Poets Collective at The Studios at MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art). This is the tenth anniversary year of the first poetry workshop-in-residence that The Studios offered within their opening weeks in fall 2015.

Just when we most need strong leadership to reach our climate goals, the draft plan proposes to weaken New York further.

For those in the North Adams, Massachusetts: Join the Boiler House Poets Collective for a special reading in honor of our tenth anniversary at the North Adams Public Library on Saturday, October 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM! This invitation issued under the auspices of Linda's One-Liner Wednesdays. Join us! Find out more here:

My birthday is coming up, so I have a birthday fundraiser for the Madrigal Choir of Binghamton up on Facebook here which you can share or contribute to, if you are so inclined. Thanks! Join us for Linda's One-Liner Wednesday! Find out more here:

As promised, Samantha Terrell's Felling Trees: Selected Poems 2000-2025 from Low Hanging Fruit Publishing is now available! You can order through Amazon or ask your favorite bookstore to order it for you. The publisher describes the collection: “Felling Trees gathers twenty-five years of sharp, unflinching verse from Pushcart and Forward Prize-nominated poet Samantha Terrell. Known for her clarity of vision and emotional honesty Terrell charts the evolution of a voice both politically alert and deeply personal.

Focusing on minority populations, the study’s findings show how low-income communities in New York City can bear generational consequences from climate change.

Leaders unveil new targets to cut planet-heating pollution after Trump called climate crisis a ‘con job’ World leaders have unveiled new targets to cut planet-heating pollution at the United Nations, in a bid to spur fresh impetus to the beleaguered climate effort a day after Donald Trump called the crisis “the greatest con job ever perpetrated upon the world”. A total of 120 countries and the European Union announced new goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in New York on Wednesday. The pledges most notably include one from China, the world’s leading emitter, which said it would cut emissions by 7-10% from its peak level by 2035. Continue reading...

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