Michael T. Kearney built a legendary career in sports across multiple communities including Revere, Malden, Chelsea, and Everett.
Mr. Kearney, a popular youth coach in Revere sports, most notably as an assistant on Lou Cicatelli’s RHS staff for more than a decade, died on Feb. 25. Mr. Kearney, who had been living in Everett for several years, was 91.
A terrific football player at Malden Catholic High School and Northeastern University, Mr. Kearney above all loved coaching kids.
“We are saddened by this loss to our football program and our community,” said Cicatelli. “Mike was a staunch supporter and a coach for many years. He helped us with the running backs at Revere High School and I know he helped out coaching in other Revere sports as well. Just a nice, nice guy who was as knowledgeable about football as they come and a tremendous person to have around inspiring and being a positive influence for our student-athletes.”
Susan Blood, Banner Correspondent
Brendan Galvin stopped counting his published poems once he hit 900. The longtime Truro resident has new poems out at 18 different magazines.
“It doesn t do you any good to let them hang around the house,” he said.
Over the years, Galvin’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Harper’s Magazine, and Kenyon Review, among many others. Galvin’s latest collection, “Partway to Geophany,” came out in November.
Galvin first began writing seriously 57 years ago. “It felt like I had added a new room onto my house, and later that my whole life had moved into it. Now, as I read the galleys for my nineteenth book, ‘Partway to Geophany,’ I find myself believing that poetry’s nothing less than food for the soul,” reads his statement about the new book.