Thursday, July 25, 2024
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
JOHN MAYALL GOODBYE ~
born in Macclesfield, England, just outside Manchester, on Nov. 29, 1933 ~ (2024)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvU5X5NTcM4
JOAN ACOCELLA ~
Acocella was lost to us early in 2024 —
read this collection of diverse portraits,
essays, mind-sweeps, whatever you wish to call them —
even one on Gianni Rodari — and
know what we have lost.
Farrar Straus Giroux
2024
Monday, July 22, 2024
Sunday, July 21, 2024
Saturday, July 20, 2024
Friday, July 19, 2024
HAPPY TRAUM ~
b. Bronx, NY 1938 ~ 2024
Happy Traum, left, in performance with his younger brother, Artie, at the Bitter End in Greenwich Village in 1970. The brothers performed at the Newport Folk Festival, toured the world and released five albums.Credit...
Sherry Rayn Barnett/Michael Ochs Archives, via Getty Images
Thursday, July 18, 2024
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
NEW AT LONGHOUSE: ALEC FINLAY ~
New poems and photographs of the poet
on his footwork travels
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$10 postpaid in the USA
Overseas please add $5
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Tuesday, July 16, 2024
NEGATIVES (MUSIC) ~
"Emo is a music genre characterized by emotional, often confessional lyrics. It emerged as a style of hardcore punk and post-hardcore from the mid-1980s Washington, D.C. hardcore scene, where it was known as emotional hardcore or emocore. "
Monday, July 15, 2024
Sunday, July 14, 2024
Saturday, July 13, 2024
LUCILLE CLIFTON ~
won’t you celebrate with me
what i have shaped into
a kind of life? i had no model.
born in babylon
both nonwhite and woman
what did i see to be except myself?
i made it up
here on this bridge between
starshine and clay,
my one hand holding tight
my other hand; come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.
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Lucille Clifton
The Book of Light
Copper Canyon Press, 2023
Friday, July 12, 2024
MARIE-CLAIRE BANCQUART ~
Scent of linden trees
their pollen in rain.
I inhabit the visible
by that, I will never be deserted
under the trees
stones and beetles
are enough for my geography
my vertical green
the night under my feet:
ecumenical landscape.
Where on earth, it doesn't matter
it's here, in the moment,
beginning and end.
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Marie-Claire Bancquart
Every Minute Is First
selected late poems
translated from the French by Jody Gladding
Milkweed Editons, 2024
Thursday, July 11, 2024
CHARTER WEEKS, PHOTOGRAPHER ~
My
I began studying photography with Harry Calahan at RISD in the 1960s. I was deeply influenced by the extraordinary images coming out of Viet Nam and the civil rights movement in the south. In 1965 I went to London and studied at the London School of Film Technique and then returned to New York where I worked as commercial photographer shooting for major agencies, magazines and the music industry. I also was a principal in a film company and for two years we were the primary film resource for the BBC shooting both news and documentary projects. A most memorable experience was shooting in Harlem the night after Martin Luther King was killed (utter chaos.) I also did a series of photographs in the south for The National Sharecroppers Fund to use in fund raising.
I returned to New Hampshire in 1971 and worked partly as an art director at a small agency and cutting film for an independent film company in Manchester NH. I built my own house in rural southern New Hampshire and started an Industrial Advertising Agency (Isinglass) since it was not possible to make a living as a full time photographer during that period.
I have been a photographer for 50 years, much of it documentary in nature. I have photographed in Europe, Asia and Africa, been exhibited in galleries around the US and published in a variety of magazines including The New York Times, The Virginia Quarterly Review, South Loop Review, Drunken Boat Corvette Fever and other journals.
My archives reside at Keene State College.



















