PETER YARROW ~

 

P E T E R   Y A R R O W

NYC May 31, 1938 ~ NYC Jan 7, 2025

Peter Yarrow

Newport Folk Festival

1964

LIONTAMING IN AMERICA ~

 

E L I Z A B E T H   W I L L I S

New Directions

2024

JEROME ROTHENBERG & MANY FRIENDS ~

 

R E A D   M E

       University of California Press

       2024

JOE NAPORA ~

 

Eber Hopper

He was coming at noon to show me

where to sink the well

I read everything I could about water tables

rainfall, soil, stone, and rock

So many books to read

It was my need to know

To be less ignorant of the process

But when he came to the farm

and the spot near the barn

there was no time to talk about

the pros and cons of divining rods

No time to discuss spiritualism and salvation

No time to get up a membership in a new cult

He just reached for his forked stick

nodded as it shook him

as it shook me

and found water

___________________

Joe Napora

Upon the Objects of Our Memory

BullHead Books, 2024

509 North Main Street

Piqua, Ohio  45653

CLARENCE EDWARDS ~

 

THE AFRICAN GAZE ~

 

R E A D   M E

     Thames & Hudson

      2024

NELL IRVIN PAINTER ~

 

R E A D   M E

   Doubleday 2024

LOVE, JOE (BRAINARD) ~

 

R EA D   M E

     Columbia University Press

      2024

SLEATER-KINNEY LOVES ~

 

CARL ORFF ~

 

OKSANA MANSYMCHUK ~

Collective Bargaining

On New Year's Eve we record wishes

on strips of paper, burn them, then

gulp down the ashes

chasing them with cheap

sweet champagne

Will those who survive

be us

or our shadows

beings transformed

altered?

If I come out of the ordeal

unharmed

I will burn each day

in a celebration

I'll be fearless and defiant

I promise

the higher power

trying, again, to take

a private exit

out of the common catastrophe —

typical of our species

Duck-Rabbit

a field, dry reeds

a patch of ice

like a blot of ink —

a child on the ground

bright red on white

her arms reaching out

shot dead or

making a snow angel?

Mother's Work

The remains

buried hastily

in the yard

recently ran about

with a shaggy dog

sewed a dress for a doll

bombed at Scrabble,

sang a lullaby

____________________________

STILL CITY

OKSANA MANSYMCHUK

University of Pittsburgh Press

2024

EDWARD SAID, PALESTINIAN LIVES ~

 

R E A D   M E

THE ULTIMATE ALFRED HITCHCOCK ~

 

R E A D   M E

      Black Dog Books

      2024

THE INCREDIBLE JERRY SCHATZBERG AT 97 ~

 

Jerry Schatzberg Closet Picks

GAYLEEN AIKEN, HER ENCHANTED WORLD ~

 

G A Y L E E N

ST. VINCENT ~

 

Total Pleasure Records

2024

JIVE-A-RAMA ~

 

MARY ELLEN SOLT ~

 

M E R R Y   C H R I S T M A S !

F R O M   L O N G H O U S E

JEAN SHEPHERD ~

 

J E A N   S H E P H E R D

A   C H R I S T M A S   S T O R Y

ARCHIE SHEPP ~