THE ROLLING STONES NOW! TONIGHT ~

 

The Rolling Stones, Now! ℗ 1965 ABKCO Music & Records Inc. Released on: 1965-02-12 Composer Lyricist: Bert Berns Composer Lyricist: Burke Composer Lyricist: Gerald Wexler

EDWARD HOAGLAND ~

 

E D W A R D   H O A G L A N D

        Burlington Free Press

SUSAN SHEEHAN ~

 

S U S A N   S H E E H A N

DUO DUO ~

 

Map

Midnight, there are people beyond the window enticing you

Cigarette butts, like silkworms start clambering

On the table, a glass of water also starts to churn

You pull open a drawer, inside are forty years of snow

A voice, someone's voice, asks: Is it true the sky's a map?

You recognize the pitch-black lips of the one who cries out

You recognize him

In fact it's you, it's that old you

You recognize your head

Just as it's coughed out into the distance from a hospital window

On the far horizon, blacksmith and saboteur move together

Those fighting fires squeeze onto a postage stamp

As they madly splash out the ocean

Swimmers in the water are splashing one another

Their swimming trunks are flour sacks

Printed with the words: Saboteurs far from the motherland

A whiff of a pungent odor

You sniff out the earliest news of the storm

Like a cloud, following the butcher's hooks you float out the

butcher's back window

Behind you, there's a leg still sitting on the butcher's block

You recognize it as your very own leg

Since you passed over that step

1990

___________________________

Duo Duo

The Boy Who Catches Wasps

translated by Gregory B. Lee

Zephyr Press, 2002

BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON ALL DAY ~

 

MARGARET ATWOOD RUMPLED & WISE ~

 

L I S T E N

00:53 Intro 03:58 Margaret Atwood’s new memoir 12:21 How Margaret Atwood became a poet and novelist 19:37 Career themes 28:07 How Atwood’s personal life has influenced her writing 33:54 Can Margaret Atwood predict the future? 39:28 The state of politics today 48:32 Attacks from the right and left 52:21 Swedish Death Cleaning 58:38 Why Margaret Atwood loves birding

PRISON WORKSONGS ALL DAY ~

 

℗ 1997 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. Originally released on Arhoolie Records.

WHITE COUNTRY BLUES ALL DAY ~

 

BLIND WILLIE MCTELL ALL DAY ~

 

℗ Originally Released 1934 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT

LIL' SON JACKSON ALL DAY ~

 

    Arhoolie Records

MEMPHIS MINNIE ALL DAY ~

 

Hoodoo Lady (1933-1937)

FAREWELL ~

 

R O B E R T   D U V A L L

F R E D E R I C K   W I S E M A N

      Tony Cenicola/The New York Times

         Caitlin Ochs for The New York Times

ANNA MALIHON ~

 

A Tale of Burnt Skin

carry me through the forest in your throat

there in the dark blue grass ants crawl over yellow bones

and bright sweet strawberries grow among corpses spilling a sweet smell

but let me collect the wild strawberries

God I really want to stay alive

don't breathe don't speak

you are the girl who tamed the Steppenwolf

didn't they tell you that you shouldn't burn skin

bitch where is your red scalp go remove his sticky promises

on the black twisted trunks by bygone trees

couldn't you wake him when he fell asleep with gum in his mouth

for it was already the apocalypse

now take a jar and strain your poisoned milk

over your cold first born

the one who doesn't know the way never gets lost

I carved maps on your back when I started to come

and kept the scars for myself

let them not judge those who were sentenced to death let them judge me

your venous arterial one . . .

lose me lost I am so tired of going back . . .

somewhere in a magical kingdom there lived a boy with a dimple in his chin

with a crater in his chest

with insects on his head: one half of the world — for mother

the other half — for father

he played the flute  put birds in a box

but from his music wild berries sprouted

something quiet and unnoticeable like the creation of dust

happens in the hours when you let me go

the rain finally becomes rain and happily soaks into the earth

the sand cleverly stirs and grasps shoes in its lips

a wolf embroidered in cross-stitch is nailed above the bed for protection

until the time I am jarred awake again

carry me through the forest

the music broke out beat rustled

better never-ending music came from birds' eyes

in the blockaded space

and the one who initiated it

couldn't stop the blood

_________________________

Anna Malihon

Girl With A Bullet

translated from Ukrainian by Olena Jennings

World Poetry 2025

ZANZIBARA TONIGHT ~

 

    2005

PETER HANDKE ~

R E A D   M E 

       Farrar, Straus, Giroux 

     2025

JOHNNY CASH ~ THE MAN IN BLACK ~

 

          HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHNNY CASH

Johnny Cash, A fly-on-the-wall account that follows the near-legendary singer on tour in the USA during the late sixties. Crammed with superb music footage the film also takes time out to relax with the man behind the most famous voice in Country music.

HISPANIC TRADITIONS TONIGHT ~

 

        Smithsonian Folkways 1992

MEMORIES THAT SMELL LIKE GASOLINE ~

 

R E A D   M E

       new edition ~

      Nightboat Books 2025

JOSEPHINE FOSTER TONIGHT ~

 

     Locust Music

      2006

FRANK STANFORD ~

 

R E A D   M E

      University of Arkansas Press

      2025