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!