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

Five minutes of poetry by Don Schaeffer

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!