5: old home week

A collection of unpublished poems that I wrote between June 1969 and September 1970. I was a lot more inventive then, making up words and expressive forms without any regard to what English teachers told me was correct. Graduating from high school freed me to write.

Music: warming up the recorder (or block flute)
Time: 5 min. 14 sec.

4: Dog and Spider

Welcome to Episode 4! I've been prevented from casting by a bathroom renovation and illness. Actually, I don't really have a schedule. In this episode I read Dog and Spider which arrived September 17, 2005 and was finalized today.

Themes: Dogs are loyal and spiders make connections with long threads that you sometimes can't see until you walk through them.

Time: 3 minutes 37 seconds

3: i don't like choking

In this episode I read another poem that I wrote, most likely in 1998. I published it in 1999 in my ezine, shiftAlt. This poem emerged into words ready made. I just wrote it down. Technically, then, I didn't write it. I recorded it as it came through me.

I read it once in public to some friends. They really liked it. I've wanted to record and publish it since then. Now I have. I hope you like it, too.

Time: 7 minutes 37 seconds

2: still waiting

In this episode, I read a poem I published in my ezine, shiftAlt, December 2002. Background music "gemido" created by plagasul and used under the Creative Commons license. Distributed by The Freesound Project.

Time: 1 min. 38 sec.

Episode 1: We Don't Remind Ourselves

My first podcast: a recording of me reading a poem I published April 12, 2005.

The title is based on a literal translation of the German "Wir Erinnern Uns Nicht" which in English vernacular would really be "We Don't Remember." To get really technical, the phrase would be "we don't internalize ourselves" or "we don't look inside ourselves." Memories are inside, hence the way the word is derived: innern (inner).

Time: 3 min. 27 sec.