N.H. PRITCHARD: THE MATRIX 1960-1970 ~

 

G O     R E A D

BIG MAMA THORNTON ~

 

Live At The Rising Sun Celebrity Jazz Club 1977

NIC JONES ~

 

RAY BRADBURY ~

 

The Library of America, 2021

R E A D      M E

ELIZA GRISWOLD ~

Water Table

My earliest wish was not to exist —

to burst in the backyard

behind the rectory

where no one would see me.

This wasn't a plea to be found

or mourned for, but to be unborn

into the atmosphere. To hang

in the humid air, as ponds vent upward

from the overheated earth,

rise until they freeze

and crystallize, then drop

into the aquifer.

________________

Eliza Griswold

If Men, Then

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

2020

PETE DRAKE ~

 

BANSKY ~

 

R E A D     M E

MIT Press

2021

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image

A work by English graffiti artist Banksy is seen on a wall in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Friday, Dec. 21, 2007

JUDY HENSKE ~

 

J U D Y    H E N S K E

Dec. 20, 1936, Chippewa Falls, WI. ~ L.A. April 27, 2022 

IRVING ROSENTHAL ~

 

I R V I N G     R O S E N T H A L

photograph by Ira Cohen

LARRY WOIWODE ~

 

L A R R Y      W O I W O D E

CHARLIE MCCOY ~

 

E.O. WILSON ~

 

R E A D     M E

JIM FOREST ~

J I M     F O R E S T

 

PIER PAOLO PASOLINI ~

 

STORIES FROM THE CITY OF GOD

FRIDA KAHLO AND MY LEFT LEG ~

 

R E A D      M E

Notting Hill Editions

2021

 

QUATTRO

 

GEORGE BARNES ~

 

CHARLEY PLYMELL, HAPPY BIRTHDAY ~

 

CHARLES   PLYMELL

! H A P P Y    B I R T H D A Y !

Poet

Publisher

Printer

Native

Born April 26, 1935

Holcomb, Kansas

"The only way to stay out

of trouble is to grow old"

Orson Welles

The Lady From Shanghai

photograph by Mark Reinertson

Charley sent it to me last weekend

RUSSIA ~ UKRAINE ~

"Don't think yourselves better because you burn up

friends and enemies with long range missiles

without ever seeing what you have done."

THOMAS MERTON 

____________________________________

It is unconscionable that while Ukrainians are being slaughtered, NATO members still send hundreds of millions of euros every day to Mr. Putin’s coffers to buy oil and gas. Political leaders who oppose a total halt to transfers to Russia are complicit in Mr. Putin’s war crimes. They are indirectly paying the wages of those who committed atrocities in Bucha. Ending all imports of Russian oil and gas would come at a significant price, but it would be small compared to the continued destruction in Ukraine. Here too, Finland is moving in the right direction, promising to end the country’s reliance on Russian energy imports in a matter of “weeks or months.”

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Mr. Rasmussen is a former secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and a former prime minister of Denmark.

New York Times, April 25, 2022

RENE CHAR

 

The Resourceful Bulrush

I hear rain even when it's not the rain,

Just nightfall;

I rejoice in dawn even when it's not the dawn,

But my own white pulp stirring among the mud.

A child's mouth ruffles me with its teeth.

Love of the silent waters!

The hawthorn has the nightingale.

I have the spells that bind.

__________________________

Rene Char

The Inventors

translated by Mark Hutchinson

Seagull Books, 2015