Poetry Archives
The Birth of Ar Lain Ta (Part One) The Birth of Ar Lain Ta (Part One)
By Marc D. Goldfinger Everyone gets to pay the gatekeeper. In the end we pay with the only currency that we own. The gatekeeper’s desires are simple. All he wants is all we’ve got. They call me the... CONTINUED
Love, Lies, and Broken Dreams (Conclusion)
By Marc D. Goldfinger Jeanie nods her head as the tears spill down her cheeks. We huddle together on the mattress, both of us crying, until we fall asleep. We sleep for 30 hours. When we wake up I... CONTINUED
Haitian Folk Tales: The Snake and the Pauper
Jacques Fleury Spare Change News It was a beautiful sunny day in the forest of Carfou, a small town in the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital city. The birds were chirping and the trees... CONTINUED
Love, Lies, & Broken Dreams
Marc D. Goldfinger Spare Change News There is no sense of time here. Have I been in the Troll’s basement for 30 days? Or has it been 30 years? The other junk- ies who dropped in here today tell me... CONTINUED
Sol Y Canto: Latin roots music to change the world
Nakia Hill Spare Change News The Amador family of Cambridge has a lot to be thankful for this coming New Year. First, the dynamic duo of Sol Y Canto and their 15-year-old twin daughters, Alisa and... CONTINUED
The Arts Maven: A selective guide to free events in Greater Boston
By David Fillingham New England Conservatory: Free Concerts Date: December 1, 2011- 6:30 PM Price: Free Location: Williams Hall Here's more than a bunch of symphonies and songs. Even those are not... CONTINUED
Putting a Face on Homelessness
Alexander R. Moore Spare Change News A joint collaboration between the Horizons for Homeless Children (HHC) organization and the National Center on Family Homelessness (NCFH) to commemorate Homeless... CONTINUED
A Holocaust of Toads
By Doug Holder As boys- we dropped rocks a flurry of bomblets on a passing phalanx of toads. Commanders for once free from the clamp of parental constraint punch drunk with the notion of our control... CONTINUED
The Straight Story
Marc D. Goldfinger Spare Change News There are so many things going wrong right now in our country that I find it hard to begin because I am overwhelmed. Some of these flaws are worldwide and our... CONTINUED
Tales from the Wandering: Stories based on the lives of the homeless in Boston
Tales from the Wandering Stories based on the lives of the homeless in Boston Spotting Your Own Skin For the better part of the next ten years, the Black Smoke stayed within orbit around a variety of... CONTINUED