TSIMSHIAN EAGLE ~

 

R E A D   M E

   Chin Music, 2023

MERLE TRAVIS ~

 

     Bear Family

HUGH & KARL FARR ~

 

     Country Routes, 1992

RORY BLOCK ~

 

      Rounder Records

    1996

ERIC HAZAN ~

 

E R I C   H A Z A N

Paris, July 23, 1936 ~ 2024

Benoit Soualle/Opale.photo

NATURAL BOOGIE ~

 

Alligator, 1974

MARGARET GIPSY MOTH ~

 

M A R G A R E T   G I P S Y   M O T H

                                                                    Ten Speed Press, 2023

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

PHOTO: OCTAVIO NAVA / SECRETARÍA DE CULTURA CIUDAD DE MÉXICO FROM MÉXICO. CC BY-SA 2.0 (HTTPS://CREATIVECOMMONS.ORG/LICENSES/BY-SA/2.0), VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS.

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 ~