Boston

Poetry

Monument

"Your eyes are cells of shadow. / Your hands are empty...." Anne Myles

Beacon Hill Friends House

October 2021 Update Quaker Works

Ione Dusinberre

Dusinberre—Ione Dusinberre, of Sandy Spring, Md., 89, on August 9, 2019, of age-related conditions. Ione was born on August 2,… Staff
Features

Bearing False Witness

Sometimes people aren't who they seem. Andrew Huff
Poetry

Mistress Dyer and the Wilderness

FJ Poetry: Sometimes the wind comes from the bay / and it carries me to the Thames. But rarely. /… Anne Myles
Features

Meeting with Friends in an Old Library

A visitor settles down at the library table at Beacon Hills Friends House. Sheilah Hill
Poetry

After the Marathon Bombing

FJ Poetry: What shall we do with the stillness, do with the hate and the pity? Lisa DeSiro

Sonja Biorn-Hansen

Biorn-Hansen—Sonja Biorn-Hansen, 58, on February 6, 2016, in Portland, Ore. Sonja was born on October 21, 1957, in Boston, Mass.… Staff
Audio

Poet Meredith Trede reads “I Tell Him About the Body Bags”

FJ Poetry: Meredith Trede is a poet and editor. Her collection, Field Theory, was published by SFA Press, Stephen F.… Meredith Trede
Poetry

I Tell Him about the Body Bags

Friends Journal poetry: He loads the dishwasher, his Mom’s birthday / dinner done... Meredith Trede
Poetry

A Long Way To Run In This Cruelest of Months

Phidippides / Two thousand and some years ago / ran all alone / on his forty thousand meter footfall from… Robert E. Young
Poetry

Light a Candle

Boston is ablaze with anger, candles, and prayers… I add my candles and prayers for the victims Namaya
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