LYRICS & PHOTOS 
 
 Listening to the right voices
  
Young people from ZUMIX share dreams and fears through their song lyrics.
      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
     ESSAY
   
 Friend Security
     By Steve Holt
     We need each
     other during
     recessions
     (and all the time).
Photo by Jim Correale
   *POETRY
 
Verses of all sizes
   By Thomas DeFreitas
  

   Four new works from the witty
   and prolific local poet.
    *POETRY
 
 An Elegy
   By Jim Correale

  
Remembering a friend
   and his place in Eastie.

 


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   *POETRY
 
'Begging to cover the moon'
   By Tina Kelly
  

   A new poetic
   voice in the
   neighborhood.
Photo by Jim Correale