*LYRICS & PHOTOS 
  'Listening to the right voices'
  
Young people from ZUMIX share dreams and fears through their song lyrics.
Zumix4a
      *MEMOIR 
     What are we saying now?
      By Maxine Tassinari Teixeira




     A former columnist remembers the East 
     Boston Community News, a voice for local 
     residents, 20 years after its final issue.
EBCN
   POETRY 
    'Bereft of legend
  and landmark'
   By Jim Correale
   Five additional
   works, including
   three new pieces.
Photo by Jim Correale
     ESSAY
    Friend Security
     By Steve Holt
     We need each
     other during
     recessions
     (and all the time)
Photo by Jim Correale
   POETRY
  'This grasp and clutch'
   By Thomas DeFreitas
   Three tight yet exquisite poems
   by a local wordsmith.
    PHOTOGRAPHY
    Wild Eastie
   Photos by Jim Correale
   Though the images
   look like they were
   taken far from the
   city, they are all
   around us.
Photo by Jim Correale

 


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