Remembering Elvin Jones on his birthday 🎂 My favourite Jones portrait, by William Claxton, c. 1960 "He never lost that pulse: the beat was always palpable when he played, even as he embellished it with layer upon layer of interlocking polyrhythms." - Peter Keepnews

Remembering Mary Oliver on her birthday 🎂 📷 Mariana Cook "She worked in the Romantic tradition of Wordsworth or Keats, but she also infused a distinctly American loneliness into her words." - rachel syme

Mary Oliver, from The Sweetness of Dogs: What do you say, Percy? I am thinking of sitting out on the sand to watch the moon rise. It’s full tonight. 📷 Rachel Giese Brown John Waters: "She had the worst dog. It pissed everywhere. It bit her. It was horrible."

This photo of Mary Oliver is by Molly Malone Cook, the love of her life. The two lived together for 40 years. "Embraced in Oliver’s poetry and prose, Cook’s photographs reveal the intimate thread that brought these two extraordinary women together." - Maria Popova

Mary Oliver by Angel Valentin, 2013 "Her poems are suffused with a pulsating, almost mystical spirituality, as in the work of the American Transcendentalists or English poets like William Blake & Gerard Manley Hopkins." - @margalitfox

Libertad Para (Freedom For) Angela Davis poster (1971) designed by Cuban artist Félix Beltrán The art was based on a photo taken by F. Joseph Crawford in 1969

Bob Gomel Roger Maris hits his 61st home run to break Babe Ruth's record, 1961 What a shot! Today we're celebrating the great slugger's birthday 🎂⚾️

Deny Fear O, thank you!!!! Nearly 40 yrs ago, living in Venice Beach, I found one of their records in a Santa Monica tea shop (there was a sort of Commonwelath expat community there that supported these things). Madly subversive, funny, evil.... ❤❤❤🤪🤪🤪

William Steig The New Yorker September 24, 1990

Happy birthday to Elvin Jones, one of my greatest heroes, born 9/9/27 in Pontiac. Never any doubt that I wanted his picture on the cover of “Jazz from Detroit.” Photo by Francis Wolff. Gratitude to the late Michael Cuscuna, who gave me a generous discount on the licensing fee.

#RIP James Earl Jones With Vanessa Redgrave during rehearsals for Driving Miss Daisy 📷 Annie Leibovitz, 2010

James Earl Jones as Othello & Christopher Plummer as Iago 📷 Martha Swope, 1981 @NYPL digital collection #RIP

#RIP James Earl Jones With Ruby Dee in Athol Fugard's Boesman & Lena 📷 Friedman-Abeles, 1970 @NYPL digital collections

Kelce like an international hit man who just missed his latest target

#RIP James Earl Jones My favourite portrait of Jones, by Carl Van Vechten, from 1961. This is showing up everywhere, & quite rightly; it’s a wonderful photograph. But not always with a photographer credit, alas.

I would have watched the hell out of this

Another wonderful portrait by Carl Van Vechten

[ca.1954] Van de Kamp's Bakery and Coffee Shop with Drive-In service, located on the corner of Fletcher Drive and San Fernando Road in Atwater. (Security Pacific National Bank Collection) buff.ly/4cYqGJR