SLEATER-KINNEY LOVES ~

 

CARL ORFF ~

 

OKSANA MANSYMCHUK ~

Collective Bargaining

On New Year's Eve we record wishes

on strips of paper, burn them, then

gulp down the ashes

chasing them with cheap

sweet champagne

Will those who survive

be us

or our shadows

beings transformed

altered?

If I come out of the ordeal

unharmed

I will burn each day

in a celebration

I'll be fearless and defiant

I promise

the higher power

trying, again, to take

a private exit

out of the common catastrophe —

typical of our species

Duck-Rabbit

a field, dry reeds

a patch of ice

like a blot of ink —

a child on the ground

bright red on white

her arms reaching out

shot dead or

making a snow angel?

Mother's Work

The remains

buried hastily

in the yard

recently ran about

with a shaggy dog

sewed a dress for a doll

bombed at Scrabble,

sang a lullaby

____________________________

STILL CITY

OKSANA MANSYMCHUK

University of Pittsburgh Press

2024

EDWARD SAID, PALESTINIAN LIVES ~

 

R E A D   M E

THE ULTIMATE ALFRED HITCHCOCK ~

 

R E A D   M E

      Black Dog Books

      2024

THE INCREDIBLE JERRY SCHATZBERG AT 97 ~

 

Jerry Schatzberg Closet Picks

GAYLEEN AIKEN, HER ENCHANTED WORLD ~

 

G A Y L E E N

ST. VINCENT ~

 

Total Pleasure Records

2024

JIVE-A-RAMA ~

 

MARY ELLEN SOLT ~

 

M E R R Y   C H R I S T M A S !

F R O M   L O N G H O U S E

JEAN SHEPHERD ~

 

J E A N   S H E P H E R D

A   C H R I S T M A S   S T O R Y

ARCHIE SHEPP ~

 

MARIA STEPANOVA ~

from Holy Winter 20 / 21

A stirring, ceaseless

Tickling

And scratching

Water on snow

Steam on water

Self on self

And dark, as the inside of a bucket

And like steamed-up glasses

Like in the brightest bath of snow

You are made double

You evaporate as you move

~

Wind. The blue of the mountains invisible

in the twilight, under winter stars

Our little house is covered in snow

I hear the dogs barking

By the village gates

Through snow and wind

Someone is coming home.

Foreign words melt in the cheek

Like sugar cubes.

____________________

Maria Stepanova

Holy Winter 20 / 21

translated by Sasha Dugdale

New Directions, 2024

SEASON'S GREETINGS FROM LONGHOUSE ~

 

Over the River and Thru the Woods

from

Bob & Susan

at

L O N G H O U S E

SMART TALK FROM BERNIE ~

 

        Bernie Sanders

         US Senator for Vermont

BECCA ROTHFELD ~

 

R E A D   M E

   Metropolitan Books

   2024

GREIL MARCUS ~

 

R E A D   M E

      Yale University Press 2024

GEORGE KALAMARAS : NEW POEMS AT LONGHOUSE ~

 

G E O R G E

K A L A M A R A S

P O E M S   O F   T H E   W E S T

$ 10 postpaid in the USA

We accept Paypal or we can invoice you

Please use our email address of 

longhousepoetry@gmail.com

More ways to order ~ through ABE Books, Alibris and Biblio

Payable by check ~

Longhouse 

PO Box 2454

West Brattleboro, Vermont 05303

BONNIE SINGS SIPPIE ~

 

ZAKIR HUSSAIN ~

 

Z A K I R    H U S S A I N

I SING ~

 

R E A D   M E

Two Dollar Radio

2024

COLLAGE BY WOMEN ~

 

R E A D   M E

     Hoaki Books 

   2019

RAMY AL-ASHEQ ~

 

R E A D   M E

     Seagull Books

       2024

KEVIN BARRY ~

 

Doubleday, 2024

R E A D   M E

Every book by Barry is much

worth your late nights ~

you'll see this new novel ends

like a Leonard Cohen song

SANDY DENNY ~

 

    Earth Recordings

    2024

THE COLLECTED POEMS OF MARY ELLEN SOLT ~

R E A D   M E

    Public Information

    2024

PETER MILLER: SHOPKEEPING ~

 

From the publisher:

For more than four decades, Peter Miller has run a design bookshop that shares his name in Seattle. He has also written three of his own books, manuals about cooking and about food and about eating together. In this love letter to his day job, Miller writes for the first time about his other love: shopkeeping.

Miller crafts stories from the bookshop floor with wry humor and skillful storytelling. Readers are taken on a shopkeeping journey and will come to understand along the way that small shops characterize our towns and cities, making them unique, special and worth visiting and living near. This essay collection is for shop lovers everywhere and captures the art and heart of running a local shop treasured by the community that surrounds it. By the end, you can’t help wanting to own a shop.

     PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS

     2024

FLIGHT O'ER YOSEMITE ~

 

Christopher Carrillo

HARRIET TUBMAN ~

 

R E A D   M E

Penguin 2024

WILLIE NELSON ~

                                              BA C K R O A D   C H A L K I E

D E C E M B E R     2 0 2 4

Willie Nelson long ago speaking about

a way of music, and music is often

applied many ways