Paul Marion
Paul Marion (b. 1954) is the author of Union River: Poems and Sketches and Lockdown Letters & Other Poems and editor of Jack Kerouac’s early writing, Atop an Underwood. His book Mill Power chronicles the modern revival of the historic textile factory city in which he was born, Lowell, Massachusetts.
His work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Café Review, The Massachusetts Review, Wisconsin Review, Yankee Magazine, Cholla Needles, So It Goes, and poetsreadingthenews.com, as well as in anthologies and other literary magazines in the U.S., Canada, Japan, and England. He is featured in The Grifter, the Poet, and the Runaway Train: Stories from a Yankee Writer’s Notebook by Geoffrey Douglas.
He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and studied in the MFA Program in Writing at the University of California, Irvine. His career work involved communications and cultural affairs in state and federal government positions.
In 1978, he founded a small publishing company, Loom Press, which has released more than fifty titles: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography, and anthologies.
With his wife, Rosemary Noon, he lives in Amesbury in the Merrimack River Valley of northeastern Massachusetts.
Photo credit: UMass Lowell
Books
Portraits Along the Way: 1976-2024 (Available for advance orders)
Strong Place: Poems '74-'84 (1984)
Apples and Oranges (1986)
The Loom Reader (1986), editor
Middle Distance (1989)
Merrimack Poetry Anthology (1992), co-editor
Vital Records (editor)
What Is the City? (2006)
History As It Happens: Citizen Bloggers in Lowell, Mass. (2017), co-editor
Haiku Sky (2019)