JUAN RULFO ~

 

R E A D   M E

       University of Texas Press

      2024

REMEMBERING SHEILA JORDAN TONIGHT ~

 

ELLMANN'S JOYCE ~

 

R E A D   M E

      Harvard University Press

     2025

JIMMY WITHERSPOON TONIGHT ~

 

1963 Fantasy, Inc.

REFAAT ALAREER ~

 

REFAAT  ALAREER

If I Must Die

If I must die,
you must live
to tell my story
to sell my things
to buy a piece of cloth
and some strings,
(make it white with a long tail)
so that a child, somewhere in Gaza
while looking heaven in the eye
awaiting his dad who left in a blaze —
and bid no one farewell
not even to his flesh
not even to himself —
sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above,
and thinks for a moment an angel is there
bringing back love.
If I must die
let it bring hope,
let it be a story.

OR Books, 2024

AHARON SHABTAI ~

 

Tikkun

The horror

the calamity

the disgrace,

the rubble of folly

and religion's stupidities,

the dimness of vision

and violence of despair

won't be repaired by an officer,

a bomb or a plane,

and not by still more blood.

Only wisdom of the heart could mend it

only the surgeon, the doctor,

the good teacher, the teachers

the medic — an Arab, a Jew —

only the quiet traveler

riding a bicycle,

someone carrying a sandwich

and walking along a street,

someone opening their eyes,

someone who speaks with compassion,

someone listening

someone learning and wise

someone waiting and thinking

someone guiding someone

down a path of kindness, affection,

the painter, the poet,

disciples of peace —

only the gardeners of peace.

                                                                      October 10, 2023

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Aharon Shabtai

Requiem

translated by Peter Cole

New Directions, 2025

YOSHITOMO NARA ~

 

R E A D   M E

    Guggenheim 2024

MEMPHIS SLIM TONIGHT ~

 

CONDITIONAL CITIZENS ~

 

R E A D   M E

       Pantheon 2020

THE MAGIC BAND TONIGHT ~

 

   1972

T E N   Y E A R S   L A T E R

BILL ORCUTT GUITAR QUARTET TONIGHT ~

 

   2023

LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTS ~

 

R E A D   M E

      The Idol's Kiss, 20th Century by Cecilio Guzmán de Rojas

   Phaidon 2024

GERALD MURNANE'S BARLEY PATCH ~

 

R E A D   M E

       And Other Stories, 2025

ARCHIVE: HOWARD ZINN / THE BOMB ~

 

R E A D   M E

    City Lights Books,

    2010

KONG NAY, CAMBODIA ~

 

K O N G    N A Y 

Kong Nay teaching the chapei dang veng, a long-necked lute, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in 2003.Credit...

                                                                               Andy Eames/Associated Press

TONI AT RANDOM ~

 

R E A D   M E

     Amistad 2025

BOB ARNOLD'S MUSEUM ~

 

       Purchase MUSEUM

~ Update ~

BTW, Birthday wishes for Bob with all love, Sweetheart!

Stone work by Bob Arnold, Summer Flowers 2025

JOHN LEE HOOKER TONIGHT ~

 

1966 UMG Recordings, Inc.

IS A RIVER ALIVE? ~

 

R E A D   M E

Norton 2025

THE CRACKING OF THE GLEN CANYON DAM ~

 

The birth of the radical environmental movement is captured in the short, poetic film on Earth First’s legendary direct action at Glen Canyon Dam in March of 1981. The film contains one of the only interviews ever given by the late, great, Monkey Wrench Gang author Edward Abbey along with his classic speech from the back of a pick-up truck. Produced by Christopher (Toby) McLeod, Glen Switkes and Randy Hayes.