Atria Books
2025
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Monday, July 20, 2026
Sunday, July 19, 2026
Saturday, July 18, 2026
Friday, July 17, 2026
Thursday, July 16, 2026
THELONIOUS MONK LIVE TONIGHT ~
Released on: 1964-04-01 Producer: Teo Macero Drums: Frank Dunlop Arranger: Hall Overton Mastering Engineer, Mixing Engineer: Vic Anesini Bass: Butch Warren Tenor Saxophone: Charlie Rouse
ANNA SWIR ~
Priceless Gifts
An empty day without events.
And that is why
it grew immense
as space. And suddenly
happiness of being
entered me.
I heard
in my heartbeat
the birth of time
and each instant of life
one after the other
came rushing in
like priceless gifts.
_________________________________________________
translated from the Polish by
Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
BOB ARNOLD'S "SWWIMMER" ~
"Artists feed each other: John Cheever fed one of the best. Bob Arnold was inspired by the John Cheever’s short story.“The Swimmer” to write a fact based novel SWWIMMER (the double “W” is intentional) that honored Cheever’s achievement. In doing so, Arnold created a rare work of art: a stunning trade book that is also an artist-book, an example of masterful writing, exquisite design, and a story that takes the particulars of personal family relationships and makes them universal as they develop the themes of love, loss, abandonment, the striving to return to inner peace by finding a way outward, “swimming” into the world’s confusions and mysteries." — JOE NAPORA
Bob Arnold
SWWIMMER
Longhouse
2026
available now
New, perfect bound, 170 pages
Prose
$20
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Please use our email address of longhousepoetry@gmail.com
LONGHOUSE
P.O. Box 2454
West Brattleboro
Vermont
05303
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
Monday, July 13, 2026
Sunday, July 12, 2026
Saturday, July 11, 2026
Friday, July 10, 2026
Thursday, July 9, 2026
LINDA GREGG ~
Asking for Directions
We could have been mistaken for a married couple
riding on the train from Manhattan to Chicago
that last time we were together. I remember
looking out the window and praising the beauty
of the ordinary: the in-between places, the world
with its back turned to us, the small neglected
stations of our history. I slept across your
chest and stomach without asking permission
because they were the last hours. There was
a smell to the sheepskin lining of your new
Chinese vest that I didn't recognize. I felt
it deliberately. I woke early and asked you
to come with me for coffee. You said, sleep more,
and I said we only had one hour and you came.
We didn't say much after that. In the station,
you took your things and handed me the vest,
then left as we had planned. So you would have
ten minutes to meet your family and leave.
I stood by the seat dazed by exhaustion
and the absoluteness of the end, so still I was
aware of myself breathing. I put on the vest
and my coat, got my bag and, turning, saw you
through the dirty window standing outside looking
up at me. We looked at each other without any
expression at all. Invisible, unnoticed, still.
That moment is what I will tell of as proof
that you loved me permanently. After that I was
a woman alone carrying her beg, asking a worker
which direction to walk to find a taxi.
____________________
Linda Gregg
Poetry, April 2026
Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Tuesday, July 7, 2026
Monday, July 6, 2026
Sunday, July 5, 2026
RAE ARMANTROUT ~
Angel
When I was almost a woman
the men in the radio
called someone I thought
might be me
an angel and a baby.
I wasn't offended.
What did I know?
I knew I would have to
empty myself to fit inside
the songs. And I wanted
to be in them as long as
they lived, to be called to
and never come. To be full of
my lighter and lighter self,
with literally no place to go
as it is in heaven
Between
"The,"
we say,
making
our claim
on eternity.
"The"
short gray
sidewalk between
those shaved strips
of lawn
_____________________
Rae Armantrout
Go Figure
Wesleyan University Press, 2024
Saturday, July 4, 2026
CLIFFORD BURKE ~
C L I F F O R D B U R K E
1942- 30 June 2026
A friend to many in the small press world ~
captain of the seas with his Cranium Press
since the 1960s and long association with
Desert Rose Press while in New Mexico,
Hollow Orange was Clifford's literary journal
to keep.
Photo by Andrea Grimes
DON CHERRY & ED BLACKWELL TONIGHT ~
℗ 1982 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
RONALD JOHNSON AGAIN ~
Wild Apples
with 'bow-arrow tang'
cows or birds or Johnny Appleseed
planted
New England westward
Whole orchards, boughs knotted
with fruits of coral & gold — to be eaten, Thoreau believed,
in the wind.
Whose 'bloom' rubs off in pockets
like wild horses
broken in, harnessed
to plow.
Neither orchards of the east, in lichened
walls, or west
hedged in eucalyptus—
bounded only by slopes of oak
& of maple,
the woods-apple comes sweet from the hills, both spring
nights & autumn
a wildflower sharpness, an earthy
cider
Domestics
shape
for hand,
& tint
of 'apple
color'
—but wild may brindle
as a cow,
may rust like
rock
____________________________
Valley of the
Many-Colored Grasses
The Song Cave, 2023
Friday, July 3, 2026
CROOKED FINGERS TONIGHT ~
℗ 2026 Merge Records
Released on: 2026-02-27
Main Artist: Crooked Fingers
Producer: Eric Bachmann
Composer Lyricist: Eric Bachmann
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