BEN E KING ~

 

NEW! ANDREW SCHELLING FROM LONGHOUSE ~

 

Andrew Schelling

FOREST, TEMPLES, GLACIAL RIVERS

Longhouse

2022

many-colored

& limited

$10

postpaid

$15

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Longhouse 

PO Box 2454

West Brattleboro, Vermont 05303

ZZ TOP ~

 

HENRY TOWNSEND ~

 

STONE CARVERS ~

 

Julio Jiménez drives short spikes into a large piece of stone in order to cut out a section from a quarry near Escolásticas.

S T O N E    C A R V E R S

SHOLOM ALEICHEM ~

 

L I S T E N

NATHAN ABSHIRE ~

 

STEWART BRAND ~

R E A D      M E

                                                            Mr. Brand in Sausalito, Calif., in 2016.

                                                                       Mark Maheny/Redux

Credit...Mark Maheny/Redux

CARMEN GIMENEZ SMITH ~

 

Lullaby

What does the poet call

a loss of words?

She calls it widest pupil.

They call it skewered sight.

How precise the nerves

that bear the toll of language.

Once there were stories

I didn't want true about me,

but here I am, twisted

with appetite. My mother

said I was a curious child.

She meant it as a gift.

Pirate moon, the

rapture of deep sleep,

build me a fortress

for my mantle.

__________________________

Carmen Giménez Smith

Cruel Futures

City Lights 2018

MARY LOU WILLIAMS ~

 

JOHNNY WOODS & R.L. BURNSIDE ~

 

PAUL AUSTER BRINGS US STEPHEN CRANE ~

 

NAT & BILLY ~

 

MARIE KNIGHT ~

 

ONE FRIDAY IN APRIL ~

 

R E A D     M E

Boubacar Traoré & Ali Farka Touré ~

 

PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON ~

 

THE BLUES DREAM OF BILLY BOY ARNOLD ~

 

R E A D      M E

University of Chicago

2021

BOBBIE NELSON ~

 

B O B B I E     N E L S O N

J.B. HUTTO ~

 

JACK KEROUAC AT 100 ~

 

Don't use the telephone.
People are never ready to answer it.
Use poetry.

––Jack Kerouac
from Scattered Poems

photograph by

Allen Ginsberg, 1957

YESTERDAY AT LONGHOUSE (March 10, 2022) ~

 

photographs by

Bob Arnold

March 10, 2022

PATRICIA HIGHSMITH 1941-1995 ~

 

R E A D    M E

Liveright, 2021

ALBERTO GIACOMETTI ~

 

G I A C O M E T T I

FANNIE LOU HAMER ~

 

F A N N I E     L O U     H A M E R

HOA NGUYEN ~

Unrelated Future Tense

with me being a bastard

and Saigon tea   will ask about my language

people will ask about bar girls

even without food in the poems

they will smell fish sauce and pho

ask about 'the war' which is to say

about men fathers and soldiers

about white Americans what

about them

about them

about white Americans what

about men fathers and soldiers

ask about 'the war' which is to say

they will smell fish sauce and pho

even without food in the poems

people will ask about bar girls

and Saigon tea   will ask about my language

with me being a bastard

__________________________

Hoa Nguyen

A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure

Wave Books, 2021

photo ~

1956, Vinh Long province. On the back of the original photograph, for the apparent purpose of giving it to someone unnamed, it says in her handwriting as follows:
“This is a glorious time, in 1956.
In those days I was a flying motorist artist—
this is the sole memory of my life.
For my friend, to keep as a memory…
The flying motorist artist”
Her Vietnamese name was Nguyễn Anh Diệp (April 21, 1941 – June 9, 2019). When she left Vietnam for North America in 1968, she became Linda Diep Lijewski. She does not leave the photo for the friend but takes it with her.

WENDELL BERRY, THE FARM ~

 

T H E     F A R M

ANNE BRIGGS ~

 

THE GREATEST OF SONGBOOKS ~

 

S O N G B O O K S

Duke University Press

2021