Boston

Poetry

Monument

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

Beacon Hill Friends House

October 2021 Update

Ione Dusinberre

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