A woman grieves a miscarriage, haunted by the Buddha's birth. An artist with schizophrenia tries to survive hatred and indifference in small-town India by turning to the beauty of sculpture and dance. Orphans in India get pulled into a strange "rescue" mission aimed at stripping their mysterious powers. A brief but intense affair between two […]
Find out more »Spare Change News Poems: An Anthology by Homeless People and those Touched by Homelessness Spare Change News was founded in 1992 and since its inception has worked to elevate the voices of the homeless and economically disadvantaged people in the Boston area. Our anthology includes a selection of poems that have been published in the paper […]
Find out more »Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.