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