TRIPPING ON UTOPIA ~

 

R E A D   M E

MARILYN SCOTT ~

 

RAY AGEE ~

 

WRITING ~

 

W R I T I N G

SHIRLEY THOMS ~

 

DONALD SUTHERLAND ~

He recounted how he was once rejected for a film role by a producer who said: “This part calls for a guy-next-door type. You don’t look like you’ve lived next door to anyone.”

D O N A L D    S U T H E R L A N D

July 17, 1935, in Saint John, New Brunswick ~ 2024

Ron Galella Collection, via Getty Images

JIMI ~

 

JIMI  HENDRIX  COPENHAGEN  MAY  21, 1967

R E A D   M E

Chronicle, 2022

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photo by Bent Rej

WILLIE MAYS ~

 

W I L L I E    M A Y S

Westfield, Alabama, May 6, 1931 ~ 2024

Mays making “The Catch” at the Polo Grounds in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series.Credit...

New York Daily News Archive, via Getty Images

JAMES GRAY ~

 

JUMP CHILDREN ~

 

THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF UNSETTLED THINGS ~

 

R E A D   M E

University of North Carolina Press

2022

CHLOE ARIDJIS ~

 

R EA D   M E

    Catapult, 2023

ROBERT GORDON / LINK WRAY ~

 

ART FROM AN AFRICAN AMERICAN SOUTH ~

 

R E A D    M E

North Carolina, 2022

JOSE EMILIO PACHECO / FERNANDA MELCHOR ~

 

R E A D    M E

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Françoise Hardy ~

 

Françoise  Hardy 

Paris 1944~ 2024

JERRY WEST ~

 

J E R R Y   WE S T

      West Virginia 1938 ~ 2024

ON MINIMALISM ~

 

L I S T E N  /  R E A D  M E

U/Cal. 2023

LOS NUGGETZ ~

 

compiled by James Austin

ROCK BEAT 2013

GEORGE KALAMARAS ~

Walking the Night Woods, Taking the Darkness

into the Cells of My Body, I Realize All I've

Ever Realized Is Words Only and, Thus,

Only Part of Who I Am

And stood in a star-sparked meadow. And heard

lost parts of myself in the barred owl's screech,

thunder in the long wood. Cutover I

walked through. Deadfall in the hardwood river

bottom. Chokecherries. Ripple-wind. Marshy

maidenhair ferns among the hummock scrub.

Said I wished I. Said words that wouldn't work.

Said and said till I broke the saying whole.

Yes, I'm a hound-blur man. Scent is the way

I speak. Rabbit-scratch. Quail boiling out

of thicket cover. Fractured word-fracture

toward the primordial pull of pre-phrase

sound. Midnight as dawn in sugar maples.

Oak. In hound-dog snout taking in the ground.

_________________

George Kalamaras

What My Hound Dog

Is Scenting Through

the Sloughgrass Is a

Way of Scenting Me

Wolfson Press, 2023

MADAME EDNA GALLMAN COOKE ~

 

FOR NOW ~

 

R E A D    M E

Yale University, 2020

H. BRUCE FRANKLIN ~

 

H.  B R U C E    F R A N K L I N

Brooklyn, 1934 ~  2024

Denver Post, via Getty Images

NAM LE ~

36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem

 [1. Diasporic]

In English, mind You.

You dink I write Yiknamee?

Shame on You.

It was Your violence dumbed me

Smeared me, reaved me —

Your war I don't remember

And won't let You forget —

Moved me

From place and sufficiency.

From everything I didn't know

I didn't know

I would've known

You would've known.

Dis place ment

Everything to me

Before the power went

Home. Shame on me.

What do I know?

What's Vietnamese in me

Could fit in a poem.

________________

Nam Le

36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem

Knopf 2024

JESSE STONE ~

 

CARSON McCULLERS ~

 

R EA D    M E

   Knopf 2024

NONNY HOGROGIAN ~

 

                                                                                              via Hogrogian family 

N O N N Y    H O G R O G I A N

1932 ~ 2024