NYRB
2025
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
Monday, August 17, 2026
DONOVAN TONIGHT ~
The Mountain · Donovan Slow Down World ℗ Donovan Discs LTD Released on: 1976-05-01 Producer: Donovan P. Leitch Composer: Derroll Adams Lyricist: Donovan
LINDA GREGG ~
We Manage Most When We Manage Small
What things are steadfast? Not the birds,
Not the bride and groom who hurry
in their brevity to reach one another.
The stars do not blow away as we do.
The heavenly things ignite and freeze.
But not as my hair falls before you.
Fragile and momentary, we continue.
Fearing madness in all things huge
and their requiring. Managing as thin light
on water. Managing only greetings
and farewells. We love a little, as the mice
huddle, as the goat leans against the hand.
As the lovers quickening, riding time.
Making safely in the moment. This touching
home goes far. This fishing in the air.
Marriage and Midsummer's Night
It has been a long time now
since I stood in our dark room looking
across the court at my husband in her apartment.
Watched them make love.
She was perhaps more beautiful
from where I stood than to him.
I can say it now: she was like a vase
lit the way milky glass is lighted.
He looked more beautiful there
than I remember him the times
he entered my bed with the light behind.
It has been ten years since I sat
at the open window, my legs over the edge
and the knife close like a discarded idea.
Looked up at the Danish night,
that pale, pale sky where the birds that fly
at dawn flew on those days all night long,
black with the light behind. They were caught
by their instincts, unable to end their flight.
Staying After
I grew up with horses and poems
when that was the time for that.
Then Ginsberg and Orlovsky
in the Fillmore West when
everybody was dancing. I sat
in the balcony with my legs
pushed through the railing,
watching Janis Joplin sing.
Women have houses now, and children.
I live alone in a kind of luxury.
I wake when I feel like it,
read what Rilke wrote to Tsvetaeva.
At night I watch the apartments
whose windows are still lit
after midnight. I fell in love.
I believed people. And even now
I love the yellow light shining
down on the dirty brick wall.
Grinding the Lens
I am pulling myself together.
Don't want to go on a trip.
I have painted the living room white
and taken out most of my things.
The room has never been so empty.
Just now a banging thunder
and suddenly falling rain.
I leave the typewriter and run
outside in my nightgown and take
the cotton blanket off the line.
It is summer and I am in the middle
of my life. Alone and happy.
______________________________
Linda Gregg
Poetry, April 2026
photo: 1981
Sunday, August 16, 2026
Saturday, August 15, 2026
L' Afrique Danse No. 1 TONIGHT ~
The First Of The African Labels "L' Afrique Danse" Compilations. Made Up Of 6 Previously Released 7" Singles By OK Jazz And Conga Succes With Various People Taking A Leading Role With Them.
Friday, August 14, 2026
Thursday, August 13, 2026
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
New! Jonathan Greene at Longhouse ~
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Jonathan Greene
Thoughts to Survive Hard Times
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L O N G H O U S E
2026
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