Larry Havluck is a skyway musician,  I met him again today outside of Macy's in Minneapolis and he said it would be ok with him if I made these available to the listeners of the Jeunesse Doree.  Three songs from "Larry Havluck's Tropical Island Getaway." Three songs -- "Plenty of Pawlenty," (that's Tim Pawlenty-- governor of Minnesota) "Need a Sane Astronaut," and "South Dakota Stars."  The first two songs -- what wit!  The last song: "Ah, what beauty!"

Christmas etc. songs, poems and stories from the JD.  Tim Smith, Dale Credico, Sir Douglas Falstaff, Whitetree, Jamie Green, Don Schaeffer, Rashmi Prakash, Joe Green, Johnny Cash. Merry Christmas etc.!

Sir Douglas Falstaff reads two poems of the great poet Rashmi Prakash and a trifle by the Poet Knave Joseph Green..a clap of thunder...and then!...  The Sir Douglas Elderly Actors Choir Bursts into Song!

On September 24 I drove down to Lanesboro, MN to confront my mortality on the Root River Trail.   I would walk and walk and muse on my advancing age.  My mortality didn't show up but adventure did -- a fellow with a titanium hip, a WW1 Tank that had disappeared from Preston, MN  appearing in the mists, a happy happy ending.  Here are my adventures.

My last noontime walk with the wit and raconteur T. Gluesing.  We wander about Minneapolis.  Discuss how Tom, now longer gainfully employed, might survive (or did I cut that?) and then...adventure!

I met Bill P outside of  a certain grand hotel on Broadway. He has lived there for the last forty years -- the old owners insisting that he always be allowed to stay before they sold the hotel.  Bill is the only man ever to knock down Jake Lamotta (Lamotta took a dive early on...always regretted it but that's another story).  Anyway, here's Bill's account.  More adventures of Bill P to follow.

There. Then.

Madness and massacre at work.  Tom Gluesing and his Tommy Gun.

Metaphysics at the office. Today -- a problem caused by a "Non-existing document."

How is that possible? I asked Tom Gluesing and new worlds were revealed!

 16 Megabytes of Christmas Cheer.  Poems, Songs and Stylings by Dale Credico, Tim Smith, Johanna, Rashmi Prakesh, Don Schaeffer, The Scranton Boys Choir, Sir Douglas Falstaff, and Joe Green.

Don Schaeffer live in Winnipeg.  Presented with the permission of the Don Schaeffer Society and the Cambridge Institute of Spoken Arts. Historic recording.

We yet live.  Poems and entertainments from Dale Credico, Don Schaeffer, Tim Smith, Johanna, Joe Green, George Bush, The Whistler and Orson Welles!  With two guest appearances by noted Minnesota wit and raconteur Tom Gluesing!

"Song for my Father" by Dale Credico, "My Father in the Store Commanding 'Buy'" by Joe Green, "Gondar Avenue" by Tim Smith, "Richie Halloran" by Joe Green, "Arnold Gates" by Tim Smith, "Peggy LaRue" by Tim Smith, "Go Tell the Achyans" by Joe Green, "Going to Goodland" by Tim Smith.

Brought to you by Mr. Clean, Camel Cigarettes, Beechnut Gum, Salem Cigarettes and the folks at Chevrolet!

With an appearance by Roy Rogers!

A salute to Francis Muir – blithe spirit.  Here’s a little bit about him:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Muir

and here it’s possible to read about his asteroid.  http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=95802

 â€œDon't forget to include a reference to my Godfather, Dean of Balliol, and he after whom I was named: Francis Fortescue Urquhart.. Google or wiki will prolly set you straight.â€?

"Famous Monsters" by Joe Green  "One Step Beyond and Back" by Dale Credico  "Immortality" by Tim Smith  "Once There Was Childermas Gazelles" by Joe Green  "The Wild One" by Dale Credico

Beautiful …That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly remold again and ever again, the face of this soiled world.           Drum-Taps. Reconciliation  Walt Whitman

Epiphany Diner.  Haunted Mansion.  Hot dog or Corn Dog?  Confronting Patriot Radio. 

Bucky Beaver?  Prostate Cancer.  At the Marines exhibit.  Poet Laureate for Minnesota.  The DFL Stance.  Hungry again.  Corn Fritters.  University of Minnesota’s Great English Majors.  Persist despite injury.  At the Chapel.  Let’s eat.  Dipping Dots.  The Great Machine.  They don’t eat corn in Germany!   Minnesota Zydeco!  We meet a fellow student.  At the Quilt center!  Creative Activities.  Lefse Bakery.  “She always has to go.â€?  Colleges and Lions.  Jesse Ventura!  Pickle Shirt.  A question at the Mensa Exhibit.    

A Strange Scene!  The Parades!  Ronald McDonald Confronted.  Finger or Thumbs Down?  Appalling Uniforms.  The Mounties!  Polka Spotlight.  Al Franken Speaks!  We cheer!  Al remembers Dwight Eisenhower.  Joe Lieberman’s Teeth.  Petting a Piglet.  Future Farmers of America.  A Musical Interlude.  Sheep bleating.  Final Thoughts.  On the Bus.  Bus driver yells at kid who has hand out window.  We overhear a guy who sounds just like the Rainman.  He discusses Minnesota wrestlers of the sixties.  Mad Dog.  The Baron.  All nice guys.  “My aunt went out on a date with the Crusher.â€?  Cindy Lou the Dog.  Listen to this guy.  Perfect!!!!!!!!

The time: 1992.  The place: Smoking room of Cray Research. Time to Completion (est) about three hours over three days.  Ah, the mojo was with me then!

We all have to make a living-- even we poor poets.  Here are five episodes of workday life from my office: DarkSource, St. Paul.

We write policies and procedures for our government here in Minnesota.

Goldy is our receptionist/switchboard operator.  We are located on the corner of Selby and Western in St. Paul in the Blair Arcade.  Drop in sometime.  We won't be there but Goldy will.  Just tell her what you want so she can forget it!

Books 12 through 24.

Includes "The Mighty Jim" and "A Christmas Story,"

Homer's Iliad translated into limericks by Tim Smith and Joe Green.  The first four books.

"This translation fulfills an unnameable need"  T.S Eliot

The second episode of the Sir Douglas Falstaff Poetry Reading Showdown.

Distinguished  jazz poet and roustabout Dale Credico reads "Babylon" by Robert Graves.

The first entry in the Sir Douglas Falstaff Great Poetry Readings contest.
Read by its author, Timothy Smith, twenty one years ago in the cabin at Owl Oak. Sailor Dreams.

William Butler Yeats comments on Ron Silliman's deep thoughts anent scrunchies.

The Flop Eared Mule brings you the first episode of "Dueling Poets."
Ron Silliman and Kent Johnson duel over a poet's clinamen!  Yes!  Shocking!

A Simple Pirate Song by Tim Smith

More about bums...

The Great Train Journey of Rashmi Prakash as told by Sir Douglas Falstaff!

Rambling Dale Credico abuses some ducks, moans about robot women and reads three poems!

Dale, Tim and Joe on the Midnight Train.

Shake that thang!

From the Introduction to her Book "Gardens of Eden" by Leslie Burton Blades author of "Fruit of the Forbidden Tree."

"Quite young and alone in a strange land, she found herself at the outbreak of the World War in the United States and facing the inexorable knowledge that her German relatives were plunged into the anguish and terror of that great disaster.

Disconsolate, her tongue condemning her to the suspicion and dislike of war inflamed people, she was forced to solitude to seek what comfort could be found in communion with nature.

She begins to write...without knowledge of the technique so highly developed in English poetry...

Such an impulse has prompted many a poet; but few there are who, lacking the irresistible urge of glowing genius, would have attempted poetry in a tongue the rudiments of which were scarcely familiar...Yet..the author bent herself mercilessly to the mastery of English...speaking in a strange tongue, without the knowledge our literary traditions, unacquainted with the trend of our present day poetry...

Dr. H. Spencer Lewis (on the flyleaf of the book jacket) remarks "The first poem is certainly symbolic and very beautiful."  Dr Lewis is none other than Harvey Spencer Lewis F.R.C., Ph.D. (November 25, 1883 – August 2, 1939), a famous Rosicrucian author, occultist, and mystic.

These poems were also endorsed by Paul Swan -- the most beautiful man in the world.

This is the only recording of her poetry available.

Here -- at the Jeunesse Doree.

"In Lunar Conversation" read by Sir Douglas Falstaff.

Oh! Donna!

Soldiers in the rain...

The real story.

Poetry baseball as it is meant to be played!
The Avalon Archers versus the 20^th Century Limiteds

The Archers

Coach W. H. Auden, John Keats, John Donne, John Milton, William Wordsworth, Alfred, Lord Tennyson

20^th Century Limiteds

Coach Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg and Ron Silliman

Broadcast from Don Schaeffer Memorial Stadium  on the Sunny Slopes of Parnassus!

Once more into the breach with Master Poet Donald Schaeffer.

his great poetry.

Recovered!

 A Dale Credico Christmas.  A  Poem on Dale's Loss by William Butler Yeats.  A Loneliest Christmas.  The Lawn Jockey Christmas Carol by Tim Smith.  "Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh" a Hannukah poem by Don Schaeffer and "Don's Dreidel" composed and performed by Joseph Green.

Christmas spectaculars by Tammy Turner Peaden and Mike Antonelli and two trifles by Joseph Green.

Joe Green tells us how -- on a Christmas long ago -- his sainted mother gave up drinking gin and Tim Smith descants on a California Christmas.

Poems and Song of Joe Green and Tim Smith.  Don't miss Tim's "A Sad But Merry Christmas" in which he cries wassail to the great spirits of the JD!

Letters sent to my Uncle Denny during WW2.  All from 1945.  He never answered.  Found in his cabin after his death a few years ago.  Worlds and worlds -- all lost.  Here.

Discovered today in the old trunk in the attic of the Jeunesse Doree studios!
The time: 1986.  The place: the Owl Oak cabin in Owl Oak woods in Carmel, California. 

Yes, I was up in the attic looking for letters to my Uncle Denny sent to him during WW2 (soon to be a major podcast) and found the old tape.  Tim Smith as Samson Shillitoe performing on the Parapark Therapy hour.  You must hear this and just when you think it's over, it ain't.  Listen to the immortal flamenco stylings of Tim Smith back when (as he has said) he could really play.  Is Immortal Diamond.

At last!  For the first time ever! The Lost Poems of Robert Mitchum!

"Out of the Past"

"On Location"

"At Schwabs with Archerd"

 and much much more! 

"Picture of Brando in The Wild One"  Dale Credico

"The Defiant Ones" and "LA Song"  Rin Tin Tin

"What Frank Knew"  Tammy Turner Peaden

"The Stand In"  Tim Smith

"My Brooklyn -- the Movie"  Joe Green

"Movie About Murder"  Don Schaeffer

A Short Ending --Voices of the Stars

The Kindness of Movies -- Jean Marie Green, Johanna, Joe.

A visit with my mother.  This summer. Concertina stylings by Joe Green.

Eldritch songs, poems and tales from Jewelmoon, Johanna, Dale Credico, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Tammy Turner Peaden, Baron Donald Schaeffer, Tim Smith, Joe Green, Sir Valentine Ravenscar, Basil Firth and others.  Tu Mani Martini is your host.  

A song and two poems.  Tim Smith -- lyrics.  Tim Smith --guitar.

The Silence of Men.  The Silence of Men.  The Silence of Men.
What is it?  It's the silence that ensues (according to a certain poet who has written what is, perhaps, the worst poem ever -- a poem that features a waltzing penis)  when men can no longer speak of sex or violence.

In this broadcast Marty and I try to break through The Silence of Men.

I don't think we succeed.

But we try.  Dammit, we try.

Being a true account of my trip to Dartmouth through the Great Flood (greatest downpour of rain on those granite hills in 70 years) to meet my translator.  Includes a jaunt to Detrroit, my mechanical incompetence, dining at Big Boy's, a tribute to Tim Smith, a brief account of the great conference, literary chit chat beneath paintings of men and dogs chasing foxes, a reading of my poem by myself and my great translator and a moving account of my arm wrestling a Russian poet as I recite "Paradise Lost."

Trifles from Joe Green

 Poems from the third day of the Dale Credico festival!

Dale Credico -- the rain, the city...

Dale Credico, blithe spirit, performs two poems!

Six more by Don!

It has been six years since Rinty died at the pound in Brighton Beach.
And now, for the first time, audio of his selected poems is available to the general public.  He would have wanted it this way.  Of course, all sorts of problems remain.  His assertion that he killed JFK still questionable.  His assertion that he was the greatest Hamlet of the twentieth century not accepted by all.

But what is beyond question is that in these poems he gives us a glimpse into an extraordinary dog -- a spirit who, in these querulous times, can, perhaps, lead us to an understanding of what it really means to live and to hope.

The very last minutes of this reading should be listened to with especial attention  by those of you who are not quite convinced  that the myth of the eternal return of a spirit, destined to again and again, bark at the dark until the darkness yields, is merely the embodiment of a vain hope. 

See!  They return!

Did you miss the Flarf festival?  Here is an account exactly (well, almost) transcribed then recited.  The temptation to overlay it all with various news from the suffering world resisted.   At least.

You can change your life.  Here's how I did -- following the advice of Kent Johnson (yes, to younger poets but what the hell) to stop blogging and engaging in the usual reindeer games and do something to show that they know life is short, to defy the pezzonovantes of poesy and to live, to live!

 

Thanks to "The Black Robes" for the music!

This podcast -- by special request -- combines two transcendent moments in World Poetry: the return of the Lonliest Ranger and Kent Johnson's Descent from Heaven in his Swan Boat with what has been described by one fellow as "The Greatest Poetry Reading I Have Ever Heard."

Ah, well.  The Exorcism is deleted.  Why include it?  The Pezzonovantes have been dealt the final blow and, of course, they can't know this.  Please don't tell them.

The Collector's Edition.

The Exorcism continues and then...transcendence!  And more.

Perhaps the greatest Vision ere podcast.

Exorcism on a wet afternoon.  Join me as I travel to Castle Dracula on the express invitation of Andrei Codresceau and am trapped into witnessing the Exorcism of Kent Johnson by Franz Wright, Charles Bernstein, Rob Silliman, the Flarf Gang, Louise Gluck, Ted Kooser and other great Pezzonovantes, Poobahs and Bonzes of American poetry.  Appearances by Jim Behlre and Curtis Faville and many others!

WARNING:  This podcast contains some of the most frightening conversations ever heard.

AMerica's most beloved poet returns with a new poem -- Thirty Three Rules of Poetry for Poets Twenty Three and Under -- and with many new epigrams.

Epigrams for Josh Corey, Stephanie Young, Galway Kinnell, Ryan Daley, George Bowering, Bob Perlman, Joe Amato, Daniel Borzutzky and others.

Recorded on the same Radio Shack tape Kent received for Christmas in 1978 or thereabouts!

 By special request etc. great engines etc. this the First Stave of the Inferno is forthwith published yet again.

By special request of those who depend on not seeing these and having them simply downloaded by great engines.  This -- The Battle -- is republished.

Join Joe Green and Marty Brennan as they stroll, as if strolling through a wood near Athens in the great tradition of Flute, Snout, Plato and Parminides, and discuss Kent Johnson's new book, his character, his probable ethnicity, his probable sexual procilivities and the direction he should take in his art.

Discussion also includes:
Annette Funicello
The theft by Walt Disney of a painting by Marty
The power of the legs of women
The mysterious book of Genta.

A leap from a balcony, An unfortunate fall.

The mysteries of the Book of Genta.

The Descent into Hell.  A word of caution to the troops.  I am met by Dante -- but not that Dante.  A problem with boneless breast of roast duck and seabirds loud with Dawn.  Ron Siiliman in Hell.  Poets in the Ninth Circle -- the most pitiful scene ever narrated.  Up again to the bright world.  Marty Brennan on Damnation.  A plea for Mercy for All.  And so home.

More poetry from Tammy Turner Peaden

In his first broadcast of the Spring, Marty takes a break from recounting near death experiences of years gone by to tell us a simple tale of a frisbee, a janitor and an unfortunate fall.

Into the Poetry Inferno

Tammy Turner Peaden was a medic in Vietnam for three years -- part of the time in the Aushau Valley during the Tet Offensive.  Tammy talks about Vietnam.  Reads some poems about the same.
Exact.

The antepenultimate battle against those who would destroy poetry.

Join Joe Green, Garcia Lorca (briefly), Hitler's Cat, Ezra Pound, John Berryman, John Keats and many others as they defend Joe's Fortress of Solitude from the dark cavalry!

You must listen to this!  And then rest in beauty as Tim Smith recites Joe's "At Con Naugh Naugh" to the pleasant piping of the bagpipers of Lothian Loch!

 

 

Who is responsible for the Death of Poesy? In this shocking segment of the Jeunesse Doree Poetry Hour the Pleasant Reviewer names names, cast a colder eye, judges inerringly and, finally, weeps. It's very shocking. Not for children. Oh, the scandal this will cause in those shippy Internet climes! Beware! Beware!

Includes "Workingman's Blues" by Horski, "Promise" by Don Schaeffer, "Thinking of Willie Loman" by Tim Smith, "Dock Boy" by Christopher George, "San Pedro: by Tim Smith, "Transition" by Tammy Turner Peaden, "Words" by Tammy Turner Peaden, "Bars" by Dale Credico.

More great poetry from Don!

Rin Tin Tin was born one second after midnight in the year 1900 and died one second before that same hour in the year 1999. Lover of Billy Holiday, revolutionary, the greatest Hamlet of the last century, a guitarist to rival Django and Segovia, poet, and assassin Rinty died at the Pound in Brighton Beach unknown except for a young Samoan attendant who recorded his last song and has recently sent that recording to us. Rinty's last book of poetry "The Dark Bark" is available from Owl Oak Press. This special episode is hosted by Tu Mani Martini and includes "Sailor Dreams" by Tim Smith and Rinty's Poem "Boulez, Bloch, Maurice Revel." Rinty currently resides on a houseboat on the Styx which he shares with Roger Maris and Catullus. Rinty's interview with Orson Welles as the two sailed down that river is available here. http://p072.ezboard.com/ftheforbiddenstoryfrm63 The complete "The Dark Bark" will be broadcast this Spring.

The adventure continues!

The first stave of the Ballads and Songs of the Jeunesse Doree. Your host -- the discarnate spirit of William Butler Yeats. Includes: "The Tale of the Tinker Transported" Lyrics by Joe Green, guitar and vocals Tim Smith. "A Loneliest Christmas" Joe Green Music by the Manhattan of Dreams Orchestra "An Interlude" by Dooley Wilson. Times Square 2004. "The Ballad of Longing for Theda Bara" Lyrics and guitar stylings by Tim Smith "The Tale of the Tinker Transported" is from the Parapark Tapes Historic Recording circa 1985, Owl Oak, Carmel, California.

Poems by Christopher Wells. ...from time to time, Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars...

What the hand dare seize the fire?...

The night the stars threw down their spears.

Part 1 in a Day in the Life of a Poet. Meet Marty Brennan, Argus and Abe. Tales of West St. Paul. The many deaths and woundings of Marty Brennan. His Luck, Man's Fate. Periplum. And then, finally, the poet returns home to Ithaca to offer fatherly advice to his beloved daughter. Episode 1 of a continuing series.

The second greatest adventure of the Loneliest Ranger!

Join us at The Palm at the End of the Mind for the poetry of Dale Credico and Hitler's Cat.

Boston University Fulcrum Reading November 2005

The First Episode of Poetry from the Jeunesse Doree. Join as as we travel from the whale ridden waters of Big Sur to the Manhattan of Dreams and then down down down to Yellow Knife as our Fredonian Class "Z" Zeppelin the Arthur Schopenhauer is forced down in that sad but merry city when we are caught up in the Witchita Vortex Sutra! Poems by Tammy Turner Peaden, Don Schaeffer, Joe Green. Music by Marco Esu, Marc Gunn, James Underberg and "Two Violins." The adventure is only beginning!

Two meg version for quick downloading. Immortal Poesy. Join as as we travel from the whale-ridden waters of Big Sur to the Manhattan of Dreams and then board the Fredonian Lift Ship the Arthur Schopenhauer with us and thrill as we are caught up in the Witchita Vortex Sutra!