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Below you will find a selection of Sean Carlson's writings.

Please contact sean@seaninireland.com with any questions, responses, or requests for republication.


Opinion / Commentary
 
"Beep the sheep: Making the most of traffic jams in Ireland"
The Daily Free Press (Boston University)
1 December 2005
  "Valuing students the entire time they're here"
Boston Business Journal (Boston)
13-19 May 2005
  "Film adaptations force paradox for creativity"
The Daily Free Press (Boston University)
21 March 2005
[reprinted at PlanetTolkien.com]
  "Burritos serve up microcosm of community change"
The Daily Free Press (Boston University)
3 February 2005
  "City ordinance undermines majority of college students"
Allston-Brighton TAB (Boston)
1 October 2004
[similar op-eds ran in The Allston-Brighton Bulletin (Boston), The Heights (Boston College), The Daily Free Press (Boston University), and The Trojan Horse (University of Southern California)]
  "A look back: Andover memories"
The Andover Townsman (Andover, Mass.)
27 December 2001

Letters to the Editor
 
"To find family's roots, one must dig"
The Boston Globe
2 September 2006
 
"The Starbucks Effect"
Fast Company
September 2006
 
"Students: Priceless"
Boston Herald (Boston)
25 January 2005
  "Extra credit"
Boston Magazine (Boston)
January 2005
  "Protect the civil rights of students"
The Beacon Hill Times (Boston)
26 October 2004
  "City targets student rights across the river"
The Tech (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
22 October 2004
  "Students stigmatized"
Boston Herald (Boston)
28 September 2004
  "Beyond profits in music industry"
The Boston Globe (Boston)
8 October 2003
  "Mom's advice could warm up all"
The Daily Free Press (Boston University)
3 February 2003

Poetry
 
"There is no perfect messenger"
Citizen Culture 5 (New York), p. 88
  "to Ireland without thinking"
Clarion 7.1 (Boston), p. 12
  "The Greatest of Ease"
Clarion 5.1 (Boston), p. 29
  "lettersbothtogether"
Mental Blocks, 2001 (Danvers, Mass.), p. 15
  "the profile of your babbling brook"
Mental Blocks, 2001 (Danvers, Mass.), p. 16