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!