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!