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Established in 1978, Loom Press publishes books by established and emerging writers and artists with an emphasis on (but not limited to) writers from New England. Loom Press titles range from fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to documentary photography, biography, and cultural studies.
Loom Press books, available at loompress.com, are distributed nationally and globally by Pathway Book Service of N.H. Titles are listed on all major databases: Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, etc.
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Paul Marion
Paul Marion founded Loom Press in 1978. The company has since published chapbooks, broadsides, poetry postcards, anthologies, and full-length books of poetry, prose, photo-documentary work, and more. He is the author of the poetry collections Lockdown Letters & Other Poems, Haiku Sky, Union River: Poems and Sketches, and What Is the City?, and editor of Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings by Jack Kerouac (also available in Italian and French translations). His book Mill Power: The Origin and Impact of Lowell National Historical Park documents the comeback of an historic industrial city whose revival has been praised worldwide. His writing has appeared in the Massachusetts Review, So It Goes, Cafe Review, SpoKe Seven, Slate, Carolina Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, Christian Science Monitor, and Yankee, as well as in other publications in the U.S., Canada, Ireland, England, and Japan. His work is represented in many anthologies, including For a Living: The Poetry of Work (Univ. of Illinois Press), Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems (Southern Illinois Univ. Press), and French Connections: A Gathering of Franco-American Poets (Louisiana Literature Press). In the 1980s, he helped shape the new Lowell National Historical Park as an administrator for the Lowell Historic Preservation Commission, U.S. Dept. of the Interior. He helped plan and develop museum exhibitions, the city's first conversion of mill space into artist studios, and the Lowell Public Art Collection. Among his projects was the development of the Jack Kerouac Commemorative, a sculptural tribute. He is one of the founders of the acclaimed Lowell Folk Festival and the Lowell Heritage Partnership, a community alliance dedicated to protecting the city’s architecture, nature, and culture. He is a former Fellow in the Building Community Through Culture program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, and in 2008 received a Local Hero award from Community Teamwork, Inc. A graduate of UMass Lowell (B.S. in political science, M.A. in community social psychology), he also studied in the MFA Program in Writing at the University of California, Irvine. He is the former executive director of Community and Cultural Affairs at UMass Lowell. He lives in Amesbury, Mass., with his wife, Rosemary Noon.
Rosemary Noon
Rosemary Noon has more than 35 years of experience in cultural affairs planning and management, art history and museum studies education, and communications. A graduate of Regis College, she has a master’s degree in Art History from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is a former Loeb Fellow at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. As the first director of the Lowell Office of Cultural Affairs, she implemented the Lowell Cultural Plan and managed the development of the acclaimed Lowell Public Art Collection. At Regis College, she was the first director of a new Fine Arts Center (1993) and later was appointed Director of Communications and Cultural Affairs. At Regis College, she taught Art History and directed the Museum Studies Program for several years. She also managed the Carney Art Gallery at Regis, emphasizing the work of women artists in several exhibitions each year. At the Fine Arts Center, she oversaw productions by major acts such as Cherish the Ladies, Savion Glover, and Yo-Yo Ma. She is the former assistant director of the Lowell Plan, Inc., an economic development organization where she managed the Public Matters leadership development program for emerging leaders, which now has more than 200 alumni. She is a trustee of the Pollard Memorial Library in Lowell and Lowell Cemetery and a board member of the New England Quilt Museum. She lives in Amesbury, Mass., with her husband, Paul Marion.