LOVE, JOE (BRAINARD) ~

 

R EA D   M E

     Columbia University Press

      2024

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 ~

 

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