HOW TO ~

 

   No One Is Defying Trump          Like Brazil’s President

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ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA ~ "Small Holdings" ~

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

Small Holdings

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THE LIFE OF ROBERT FROST AND HIS POEMS (THE LATEST VERSION) ~

 

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     Farrar, Straus, Giroux

    2025

FATS DOMINO LIVE TONIGHT ~

 

RUTH KRAUSS ~

 

H A P P Y   B I R T H D A Y,   S W E E T H E A R T

Ruth Krauss

Maurice Sendak

DICTEE ~

 

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First Third Woman Press

University of California Press

1982, 1995, 2001, 2009, 2022

MICHAEL OCHS ~

 

Michael Ochs, right, with his brother Phil, the protest singer, in 1968 in Mill Valley, Calif. For a time, Michael served as Phil’s manager. Credit...Alice Ochs/Michael Ochs Archives, via Getty Images

M I C H A E L   O C H S

Top Collector of Rock ’n’ Roll Photos, Dies at 82

CLIFF CARLISLE TONIGHT ~

 

DAVID GIANNINI ~

              

Something Else

Losing a good-luck charm does not mean losing

good luck or that bad luck will occur more

frequently. That is why Husband looked into

the pickle jar, with its lone occupant.  Husband

thought that if he could remove the lid, after

years of having the jar tightly sealed away

in the dark, good luck might befall him in a

charming, if not charmed, way.

"My view is kind of difficult to explain," said

Husband to Wife.

"It's a belief, that's why," said Wife.  Good luck

with it.

Husband and Wife stood in the root cellar as

Husband held the pickle-in-its-jar to the dim

light of a 20-watt bulb.

"I believe the pickle is still in there, dear," said

Husband.

"Yes, I believe he's there, too," said Wife,

"though the jar is so cloudy."

"Let's call him Something Else," said Husband.

"That won't change the fact that he's still our

pickle in the clouds," said Wife.

"No, I suppose not," said Husband, and he

placed the boy-in-the-brine back on the shelf,

and turned out the light.

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David Giannini

Porous Borders

Spuyten Duyvil, 2017

JETHRO TULL TONIGHT ~

 

     Reprise 1969

THE WISDOM OF SHEEP ~

 

R E A D   M E

     Penguin 2024

ATLAS OBSCURA ~

 

SACAGAWEA, AMERICAN HISTORY ~

R E A D

or

    L I S T E N 

Christoper Cox, NYT

James Patrick Conin

WILLIE NELSON TONIGHT ~

 

OFF THE TRACKS ~

 

R E A D   M E

ECW Press, 2024

RUN THE SONG (BEN RATLIFF) ~

 

R E A D   M E

Photo credit: Gus Aronson

JOHN PHILLIPS CONCRETE ~

 from CONCRETE

               ___________________________

TELL

The story

begins

where

words end

theirs

THIS

What you do with

your silence

is up to you

What I do with mine

is this

CONCRETE

My voice is

but I don't know what my voice is

Other voices come in I try to

let them speak

but I don't

know where from

I make them up

Sometimes they're people on the street

sometimes people I know

Voices are concrete

SIDETRACKED

Thinking

what I'm

reading

as I'm

writing it

________________________

John Phillips

Concrete

The Bodily Press, 2025

BIG JOE WILLIAMS TONIGHT ~

 

Milestones Records

POETS ON POETS ~

 

R E A D   M E

      University of Pennsylvania Press

      2022

BRYAN FERRY TONIGHT (RETROSPECTIVE) ~

 

  BMG 2024