The Poet Heroic: Recent Episodes
Timothy Arliss OBrien
The Poet Heroic is a monthly podcast of poetry, curated by poet and composer Timothy Arliss OBrien. Each episode takes the listener on a journey through three poems by guest writers, two poems by the host Timothy, and one from a favorite classic author.
In the forty-fifth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore understated universes.
From the forty-fifth episode:
“Dionysus in Vegas”
By: Anthony David Vernon
Published in Apocalypse Confidentia
lhttps://medium.com/@antmanvernon305
“The Parade” (Hagalaz)
By: Anne Westlund
Published in The Wolf in Me
https://www.poetbay.com/AnneWestlund
“Someone Else”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Published #14 in They
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“Love A Special Kind Of Pain”
By: Michaell Magrutsche
https://MICHAELLM.com
“Someone might love me unconditionally one day”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Published in The Queer Revoltwww.timothyarlissobrien.com
“We Wear The Mask”
By: Paul Laurence Dunbar
Music: timothy arliss obrien
Release date: June 7th 2024
In the forty-fourth episode of The Poet Heroic we explore rambling roads.
From the forty-fourth episode:
“Beyond Understanding”
By: Nicholas Yandell
Published in Of Restless Wonder
www.nicholasyandell.com
“Johnston, Iowa”
By: C.W. Bryan
This episode's writing prompt is to get behind the wheel and share a story from the road.
“Inside”By: Nicholas Damion Alexander
Published in Vox Poetica
https://nicholasdamionalexander.blogspot.com/
“At Home With Never Knowing”
By: Nicholas Yandell
Published in Handbasket Zine issue 13
“Truck Stop”
By: Marc Isaac Potter
“The Road That Has No End”
By: Joseph Burrows
Music: nicholas yandell
Release date: March 22nd 2023
In the forty-third episode of The Poet Heroic I explore Invasive Immersions.
From the forty-third episode:
“North American Beauty”
By: Natasha T Champney
“Masking”By: Murielle Chery
https://spacehey.com/profile?id=2050798https://neobook.org/mienlfp/https://www.wattpad.com/user/mIeNlFP
This episode's writing prompt is to tell me a deep dark dastardly secret.
“Knots”By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Published in Deep Overstock issue twentytwowww.timothyarlissobrien.com
“Catechism”By: Emily Moon
Published in Spank the Carp issue 39https://linktr.ee/EmilyMoonPoet
“The Memory”By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Published in Dear God I’m a Faggotwww.timothyarlissobrien.com
“A January Dandelion”By: George Marion McClellen
In the forty-second episode of The Poet Heroic I explore abstract acquiescence.
From the forty second episode:
“Men Who Mourn Nothing”
By: J. S. Carrie
“Red Dawn”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Published in Deep Overstock issues fourwww.timothyarlissobrien.com
“Anatomical”
By: Dylan Webster
This episode's writing prompt is to jumble all your thoughts together and spit them onto the page.
“Wistful Longing”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Published number 39 in They
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“Rogue Within”
By: Mila Yew
allpoetry.com/lemongriszer
“England in 1819”
By: Percy Shelley
Music: timothy arliss obrien
Release date: January 26th 2023
In the forty first episode of The Poet Heroic I explore pensive polishings.
From the forty first episode:
“Infinite Progress”By: Michele Schmidt
“Whispers, Whispers”By: Komi
https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=719003
“Fly”By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Published in The Art of Learning to Flywww.timothyarlissobrien.com
This episode’s writing prompt is to tell me a time when you were disastrously wrong.
“Butterly Flutters”By: Sunbird
“The Fox and the Stocking”By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Published in Dear God I’m a Faggot
“The Amulet”By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the fortieth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore methodical melancholia.
From the fortieth episode:
“Juno 1992” By: Ted Naughton
Published in Sage Cigaretteshttps://www.sagecigarettes.com/?p=1657
“Take the time to become possessed” By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Published in The Queer Revolt
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“Pride Dancing” By: Karen A. Shklahny
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Karen-Szklany-Gault/author
This episode's writing prompt is to give me something you are missing.
“It’s The End of The World”By Timothy Arliss OBrien
Published in The Queer Revolt
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“the jukebox anthem & the discovery of heterosexuality with religion” By: John Compton
https://www.facebook.com/poetjohncompton
"Tavern" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
https://califragile.org/2018/06/03/tavern-by-edna-st-vincent-millay/
Music: timothy arliss obrien
Release date: 8.18.23
In the thirty-ninth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore gorgeous grandeurs.
From the thirty ninth episode:
“The Soul”
By: S.T. Brant
Published in Melody in Exilehttps://shanebrant.com/
“Let’s make an evening of it”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Published in They #34
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“Wedded”
By: Kelli Lage
Published in Paddler Press Volume 2 – Roots & Wings
www.KelliLage.com
“The Las Vegas Horror”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Written during the Flash Fiction Horror Workshop at Grover's curiosity shop
Hosted by writer Tim Day.
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“Time’s Fool”By: Asteria
@times_fool
“A Jelly-Fish”
By: Marianne Moore
Music: timothy arliss obrien
Release date: 6.3.23
In the thirty-eighth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore luscious lamentations.
From the thirty eighth episode:
“Fire Escape”
By: Vesper Fortune
https://twitter.com/FortuneVesper
“I’m a superstar, and super high, but superhero?”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Published in Deep Overstock issue 16 - superheroes
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“A Single Flame”
By: Rebecca Herz
https://homecomingpoet.medium.com/
“Junk Mail piles up on the sofa and random words spill onto the floor” By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Published in They #24
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“Baryshnikov”By: RJ Equality Ingram
Published in issue 22 of Eleven Eleven, a journal from the Cal Arts MFA program
twitter.com/RJEquality
“We Never Know How High We Are”
By: Emily Dickenson
music: timothy arliss obrien
release date: April 14th 2023
From the thirty seventh episode:
“Shell of Light”
By: Colin Keating
https://www.instagram.com/francisbaconbits/
“Little Blazes”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Published in Happy LGBTQ Wrath Month
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“Beyond”
By: Alyssia White
Alyssiawhite.co.uk
“Long remembered feelings. A conversation with the counselor.”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
22 Published in They
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“Finland”
By: Ron Riekki
Published in Boomer Lit Mag
https://twitter.com/RiekkiRon
“Art thou pale for weariness”
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
music: timothy arliss obrien
release date: January 29th 2023
In the thirty-sixth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore dynamic dispositions
From the thirty-sixth episode:
“Atmospheric River”
By: Jay Nuwald
https://linktr.ee/jaynuwald
“If You Were To Cut Open My Stomach”
Published in Dear God I’m a Faggot
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“Once and Future Pigeon”
By: Jennifer Kemnitz
Published in The Art of Learning to Fly
https://www.instagram.com/hopelessecstatic/
This week’s writing prompt is to pick up a pen and give me the loudest silence you have ever experienced.
“Matryoshka”
By: Ry Downey
“Love”
Published in Dear God I’m a Faggot
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
The wise words of author Jay Nuwald “Poetry, to me, is the language of dreams. The words we use describe things no other medium can: a part of the mind or a place or a taste or a smell—experiences that cannot be had any other way. ”
"Prometheus"
Lord George Gordon Byron
music: timothy arliss obrien
release date: December 10th 2022
In the thirty-fifth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore harmless hope
From the thirty-fifth episode:
“I Am Like Water”
By: Karen A. Szklany
https://www.instagram.com/labyrinth_dragon/
https://twitter.com/SzklanyKA
“The Precipice”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Published in Dear God I’m a Faggot
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“Spirit of the City”
By: Nicholas Yandell
Published in The Art of Learning to Fly
https://www.nicholasyandell.com/
“Time”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
33 published in They
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“History of Monotype”
By: Irina Tall
www.twitter.com/IrinaTall87
“The Oven Bird”
By: Robert Frost
music: timothy arliss obrien
release date: november twenty-seventh 2022
In the thirty-fourth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore generous goals
from the thirty-fourth episode:
“How to Mourn the Memories you Miss (or Flowers for Sixteen)”
By:Maggie Kaprielian
https://www.instagram.com/maggiekaprielian_/
“Lost Train Ticket”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Written on the podcast Late Night Pomes episode 24
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“Cycles”
By: Oluwakemi Esho
https://oluwakemiesho.com/
“Fly”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Published in The Art of Learning to Fly
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“January 27, 2017”
By: Amy Oxford
“The Roman Road”
By: Thomas Hardy
music: timothy arliss obrien
release date: november sixteenth 2022
In the thirty-third episode of The Poet Heroic I explore magical musings
From the thirty-third episode:
“Paradox on the Stage”
By: Adrija Jana
Published in Justice for Society Magazine, Issue 14
Instagram: @adrija_jana2004
“ 9’ x 12’ - $1798 “
By: Timothy Arliss
Published in Dear God I’m a Faggot
www.timothyarlissobrien@gmail.com
“Toothbrush in Your Bathroom”
By: Val
https://instagram.com/eatmysorrow
“Drunk on Vodka and Seltzer”
By: Timothy Arliss Obrien
Published in Happy LGBTQ Wrath Month
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“The Way This Day Went”
By: Ted Burke
www.ted-burke-poems.blogspot.com
www.thevariablefoot.com
www.ted-burke.com
“The Oak”
By: Alfred Lord Tennyson
release date: october twenty seventh 2022
In the thirty-second episode of The Poet Heroic I explore punctual percussions.
From the thirty-second episode:
“Haunted by Flowers of the Fae”
By: Linda M. Crate
https://twitter.com/thysilverdoe
“On the Moon”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Published in Dear God I’m a Faggot
“Lunch Date”
By: Regina Beach
www.reginagbeach.com
“If I Had Wings”
By: Nicholas Yandell
Published in The Art of Learning to Fly
www.nicholasyandell.com
“Asp-bite & River Rocks”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Published in Happy LGBTQ Wrath Month
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“The Garden of Love”
By: William Blake
release date: september eleventh 2022
In the thirty-first episode of The Poet Heroic I explore roaming riddles.
“The Academician”
By: Raphael Almagor
http://almagor.blogspot.com
“The First Liftoff”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Published in The Art of Learning to Fly
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“There is an Old Tree Growing”
By: Zach Beach
www.zachbeach.com
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09Y6PKBX1
“Life Makes us Happy”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Published in Happy LGBTQ Wrath Month
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
https://www.powells.com/book/happy-lgbtq-wrath-month-9781034898368
“Sandpaper Air”
By: Daniel Hess
https://totonyproductions.com/
https://www.instagram.com/totonyproductions/
“A Mood”
By: George MacDonald
In the thirtieth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore valiant victories.
“Antic disposition”
By: Alex Long
Www.Twitter.com/AllDayLongI
“Love Returned“
Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“Tangle Me in Your Roots So I Can Feel Loved”
By: X Ballantyne
https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=356977
“Dinosaur Idioms”
Written on the podcast Late Night Pomes episode 24
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“Stranger I Once Was”
published in Maudlin House
By: Michelle Drozdick
https://twitter.com/drozphallic
“The Argument of His Book”
By: Robert Herrick
This poem is in the public domain
In the twenty-ninth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore floral foundries.
“How I Learned to Pray”
By: Nicole Rollender
2017 winner of the Poetry of the Sacred Contest,
published in Parabola Magazine
https://store.parabola.org/vol-424-families-p199.aspx
www.nicolemrollender.com
“Spring Cleaning”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“Nightwatch”
By: Simon Hauwaerts
https://www.instagram.com/simonhauwaerts/
“The Garden of the Heart“
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“Temple Body”
By: Sloane Angelou
Published in Zero Readers
https://linktr.ee/SloaneAngelou
“The Sea Spirit”
Madison Julius Cawein
This poem is in the public domain
This week’s writing prompt is to pick up a pen and describe something without full sentences.
In the twenty-eighth episode of The Poet Heroic, I explore languish language.
“Planted Apartment”
By: J Farrington
https://twitter.com/ojfarrington
“Turn on the Mic”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Published in “Happy LGBTQ Wrath Month” (2021)
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“Fruit”
By: Dave Malone
Published in “Elder Mountain: A Journal of Ozark Studies” & “Tornado Drill” (Aldrich Press, April 2022)
www.davemalone.net
“That Van Gogh Cow Cart”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Published in “Happy LGBTQ Wrath Month” (2021)
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“The Unburnt Toast”
By: Fizza Abbas
Published in “Stone of Madness Press”
https://twitter.com/fizzawrites
“Double Red Daisies”
Robert von Ranke Graves
In the twenty-seventh episode of The Poet Heroic, I explore maniacal might.
“Street Lights”
By: Sarah Corwin
https://www.instagram.com/dontlookpoems/
“Simplicity”
“Happy LGBTQ Wrath Month” (2021)
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/happy-lgbtq-wrath-month-9781034898368
“Half-Baked History”
By: Rozann Kraus
“Just a Sad Poet”
“Happy LGBTQ Wrath Month” (2021)
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/happy-lgbtq-wrath-month-9781034898368
“Get a Grip”
By: Asteria Valentine
https://www.instagram.com/whereisasteria/
https://twitter.com/asteriaisadream
“The World Is Too Much With Us”
William Wordsworth
- In the twenty-sixth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore tenacious tensions
Poems:
“Mudslides”
By: Felicia Reninger
https://allpoetry.com/Rashae
“Blue Moon”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
“Free Me”
By: Chancellor K. Jackson
www.instagram.com/korlehj
www.maggielogic.com
“A thousand new lovers in the next year”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
“Wall Flower”
By: Maggie Daniels
Published in “Swimming” (2020)
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/swimming-maggie-daniels/1138541568?ean=9780578831992
www.maggielogic.com
“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing”
By: Walt Whitman
In the twenty-fifth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore polished pointillism.
Poems:
“First Love:
By: Amy Oxford
“On Sanctuary”
“Happy LGBTQ Wrath Month” (2021)
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/happy-lgbtq-wrath-month-9781034898368
“Venus Flytrap”
By: Erin Karbuczky
http://thegratefulpoet.com
“My Favorite Bar”
“Dear God I’m a Faggot” (2019)
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/dear-god-im-a-faggot-9780368135866
“Moth Butterfly”
By: Carrie Ann Stotts
https://www.instagram.com/carrie.a.stotts/
“To Hang Our Head Ostensibly”
By: Emily Dickenson
Music:
Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
- In the twenty-fourth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore monochromatic musings.
Poems:
“The Depth of Hell”
By: B. L. Foxley
www.blfoxley.com
https://www.instagram.com/blfoxley/
https://twitter.com/blfoxley
https://www.tiktok.com/@blfoxley?lang=en
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/blfoxley/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1711639486/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
“The Lady in The Leather Jacket”
“Happy LGBTQ Wrath Month” (2021)
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/happy-lgbtq-wrath-month-9781034898368
“And No One Hears It”
By: Kristen Baum DeBeasi
www.kbdebeasi.com
https://issuu.com/richardholleman/docs/voiceofeve_issue15
“Lost Things”
“Happy LGBTQ Wrath Month” (2021)
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/happy-lgbtq-wrath-month-9781034898368
“Trekking Through Eden”
By: Jay Nuwald
https://allpoetry.com/Jay_Nuwald
“Rain Has Fallen All The Day”
By: James Joyce
Music:
Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
In the twenty-third episode of The Poet Heroic I explore Dead Bees. A new zine of poetry by author Mel Green, published by Zines +Things.
Poems:
“The Street Sweep”
By: Mel Green
https://www.instagram.com/melrainbows/
“In Constant Conversation”
By: Mel Green
https://www.instagram.com/melrainbows/
“Save the Bees”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“How to Trust”
By: Mel Green
https://www.instagram.com/melrainbows/
“Holy Juxtaposition”
By: Mel Green
https://www.instagram.com/melrainbows/
“God’s World”
By: Edna St. Vincent Millay
Music:
Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
In the twenty-second episode of The Poet Heroic I explore sensational senses.
Poems:
“The Same Form” By: Rhiannon Bates https://www.instagram.com/p/BsRWbpnhwdw/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
“Midnight Train” “Happy LGBTQ Wrath Month” (2021) By: Timothy Arliss OBrien https://www.powells.com/book/happy-lgbtq-wrath-month-9781034898368
“Blue Collar Blues” By: Ken Tomoro Twitter: @Anxietymlkshake
“Cancel the Sweltering Summer” “Happy LGBTQ Wrath Month” (2021) By: Timothy Arliss OBrien https://www.powells.com/book/happy-lgbtq-wrath-month-9781034898368
“Touched by Fire” By: JD Cromwell https://www.poetrysoup.com/poems_poets/poems_by_poet.aspx?ID=122178
“The Bush Fire” By: Henry Lawson
Music: Timothy Arliss OBrien
In the twenty-first episode of The Poet Heroic I explore wonderful writing.
Poems:
**“Love”
Dear God I’m a Faggot (2019)**
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/dear-god-im-a-faggot-9780368135866
**“These Seasons Endure”
By: Anna Lobianco**
**“That’s His Thing”
Dear God I’m a Faggot (2019)**
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/dear-god-im-a-faggot-9780368135866
“Live LikeThe Sun, Die Like a Sunset”
A Forever Kind of Dream (2015)
Ifeanyi Ogbo
https://instagram.com/ifeanyi_awesome?utm_medium=copy_link
https://www.powells.com/book/a-forever-kind-of-dream-9780692584804
**“The Moment of Our Lives”
By: Vua**https://www.instagram.com/vua.dreams/
**“The Enemies“
By: Elizabeth Jennings
Music: Timothy Arliss OBrien**
In the twentieth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore pensive possibilities.
Poems:
**“We Live in Strange Times (It’s Not Our Fault)”
By: Robert Westlake**
**“A Battery, A Dragon, A Reason to Move Across the Country”
Dear God I’m a Faggot (2019)**
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/dear-god-im-a-faggot-9780368135866
**“Outside My Body”
By: Carrie A. Stotts
Instagram: @carrie.a.stotts**
**“Having A Reoccurring Dream: A Poem in Three Parts”
Dear God I’m a Faggot (2019)**
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/dear-god-im-a-faggot-9780368135866
“Friends From Before”
Lisa MoonCat Stormler
https://medium.com/@lmcatstormler
**“Hope“
By: Emily Dickinson
Music: Timothy Arliss OBrien**
In the nineteenth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore existential enigmas.
Poems:
**“Only in the movies”
By: Ken Tomaro
Twitter: @AnxietyMlkshake
“Where Life Began: Nature 1. Forests”
Deep Overstock: Issue 10 - Origin of Life**
**By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://deepoverstock.com/2020/10/01/where-life-began-nature-timothy-arliss-obrien/**
**“Our Chasm, So Far Part 1”
By: DeForest Dalbec**
**“Where Life Began: Nature 1. Sea”
Deep Overstock: Issue 10 - Origin of Life**
By: Timothy Arliss OBrienhttps://deepoverstock.com/2020/10/01/where-life-began-nature-timothy-arliss-obrien/
**“The Moon is Distant From the Sea
By: Emily Dickinson**
Music: Timothy Arliss OBrien
18. In the eighteenth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore daunting doting.
Poems:
**“Where Life Began: Nature 1. Waters”
Deep Overstock: Issue 10 - Origin of Life**
**By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://deepoverstock.com/2020/10/01/where-life-began-nature-timothy-arliss-obrien/**
“Stuck Inside Your Web”
By: Liam Ortmeier
**Instagram: @liam_ortmeier @worldeatermagazine
“Where Life Began: Nature 2. Trees”
Deep Overstock: Issue 10 - Origin of Life**
**By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://deepoverstock.com/2020/10/01/where-life-began-nature-timothy-arliss-obrien/**
**“Remember Korsokov”
By: Stefan George Mario*https://www.reddit.com/r/Poems/comments/jvxl8n/remember_korsakov/*“A Mountain Station”
By: Banjo Paterson**
Music: Timothy Arliss OBrien
In the seventeenth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore fluctuating feelings
**Poems:
“Being a Third Wheel at a Party is Like Spilling a Drink”
Dear God I’m a Faggot (2019)**
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/dear-god-im-a-faggot-9780368135866
**“Quarantine”
By: Tiffany Kanny
“The Architecture of the Apple Tree”**
**Deep Overstock: Issue 8 - Structures
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien**
https://deepoverstock.com/2020/03/17/the-architecture-of-the-apple-tree-timothy-arliss-obrien/
“Caterpillars”
By:Carrie Ann Stotts
Instagram: @carrie.a.stotts
https://app.thebookpatch.com/BookStore/flowers-for-alex/441688ac-7515-45d2-b4d0-183f001a4124?isbn=9781648582592
**“An Irish Airman foresees his death”
By: William Butler Yeats**
Music: “Fluctuating Feelings”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
In the sixteenth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore obvious opposites
**Poems:
“Hollywood Rain”
The Oddvillepress Summer 2020*https://oddvillepress.com/pdf/The-Oddville-Press-Summer-2020.pdf*By: Scott Laudati
https://www.instagram.com/scottlaudati/**
**“Her”
Dear God I’m a Faggot (2019)**
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/dear-god-im-a-faggot-9780368135866
**“Bought roses on impulse”
By:Felicia Reninger**
https://allpoetry.com/Rashae
**“Would you rather”
Dear God I’m a Faggot (2019)**
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/dear-god-im-a-faggot-9780368135866
**“Flapper”
By: D. H. Lawrence**
In the fifteenth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore occasional oddities.
Poems: “I had a thought” Crêpe & Penn Issue 6 By: Wayne Benson https://crepeandpenn.wixsite.com/litmag/issues6-7 “At the ocean” Dear God I’m a Faggot (2019) By: Timothy Arliss OBrien https://www.powells.com/book/dear-god-im-a-faggot-9780368135866 “I (exponentially speaking)” By: Jacob Howell https://www.phenomastrology.com/ “The shitty love poem” Dear God I’m a Faggot (2019) By: Timothy Arliss OBrien https://www.powells.com/book/dear-god-im-a-faggot-9780368135866 “My little ghost” By: Susan Coolidge
Music: "Occasional Odditites By: Timothy Arliss OBrien www.timothyarlissobrien.com
**In the fourteenth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore helpful heartbeats.
Poems:
“Your Commute Never Takes You Home”**
Dear God I’m a Faggot (2019)
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/dear-god-im-a-faggot-9780368135866
**“Shower Thoughts”
By: Andrew Oakes
https://www.instagram.com/andrew.oakes.737/**
**“Empty Cupboards”
Deep Overstock: Issue 9- New Arrivals**
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://deepoverstock.com/2020/06/30/empty-cupboards-timothy-arliss-obrien/
**“Blackberry Season”
By: Adam Eason
https://www.adameasonmusic.com/
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
By: Robert Frost
Music: “Helpful Heartbeats”**
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
In the thirteenth episode of the Poet Heroic I explore opulent moments.
Poems:
“Kronos by the Sea”
By: John Chrostek
https://johnchrostek.wordpress.com/
https://twitter.com/yoncrowstack
“The Rat King”
Dear God I’m a Faggot (2019)
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/dear-god-im-a-faggot-9780368135866
“The Sounds of Quarantine”
By: Andy Anderson
https://www.blurb.com/b/9405616-hello-my-name-is-andy
“When Your Friend Group Isn’t a Forbes 500 Company (or a 501c3)”
Dear God I’m a Faggot (2019)
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/dear-god-im-a-faggot-9780368135866
“A Dream”
By: Edgar Allan Poe
Music: “Opulent Moments”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
In the twelfth episode of the Poet Heroic I explore hopeful happenings. Poems: “8100 Polls.” Spoken Word By: Timothy Arliss OBrien Music by Banadu https://open.spotify.com/artist/4fPkcgyXEB93JncKYAcmUv “The Eruption of Mount Novak” Calyx, vol. 31, no. 1 By: Jennifer Kemnitz https://www.instagram.com/hopelessecstatic/ “Memories from Oklahoma” Deep Overstock: Issue 6- Westerns By: Timothy Arliss OBrien https://deepoverstock.com/2019/10/10/memories-from-oklahoma-timothy-arliss-obrien/ “Anxiety Attack” By: Felicia Reninger https://allpoetry.com/Rashae “Over the Banisters” By: Ella Wheeler Wilcox Music: “Hopefully Happenings” By: Timothy Arliss OBrien www.timothyarlissobrien.com
In the eleventh episode of the Poet Heroic I explore indispensable imagery. Poems: “Anna and the Wobbly Star.” Dear God I’m a Faggot By: Timothy Arliss OBrien “Familial Vice” By: The Cult Leader www.thecultleader.com “Living Structures” Deep Overstock: Issue 8- Structures By: Nicholas Yandell https://deepoverstock.com/2020/03/17/living-structures-nicholas-yandell/ “Forever and Always” By: J. M. Stites “We Two Boys Together Clinging” By: Walt Whitman Music: “Indispensable Imagery” By: Timothy Arliss OBrien www.timothyarlissobrien.com
In the tenth episode of the Poet Heroic I explore grand gestures Poems: “Tiger Preens Its Cage” By: Robert Torres www.instagram.com/gayspacecommunismwillwin “The Chosen One” Dear God I’m a Faggot By: Timothy Arliss OBrien “New Plague” By: Colin Keating www.instagram.com/francisbaconbits
“If You Were to Cut Open My Stomach” Dear God I’m a Faggot By: Timothy Arliss OBrien “Common Places” By: Rudyard Kipling
Music: “Sizable Solutions” By: Timothy Arliss OBrien www.timothyarlissobrien.com
In the ninth episode of Poet Heroic I indulge in sizable solutions. Poems: “Skin” Dear God I’m a Faggot By: Timothy Arliss OBrien “Sebastapol” by: Samuel Alberts www.instagram.com/patchoulibluez “The Feeling of Love” Dear God I’m a Faggot by: Timothy Arliss OBrien “7.1 California Earthquake, July 2019” by: Jacob Michael Howell www.phenomastrology.com “A Ballade of Suicide” by: Gilbert Keith Chesterton Music: “Sizable Solutions” By: Timothy Arliss OBrien www.timothyarlissobrien.com
In the eighth episode of Poet Heroic I explore arduous aggressions. Poems: “Take Refuge in the Sky” By: Nicholas Yandell www.nicholasyandell.com “Ordinary Day” Dear God I’m a Faggot by: Timothy Arliss OBrien “Cold Tea” By: Kelsey Davis instagram @kels.davis.art ”NE Grand and Broadway” Dear God I’m a Faggot By: Timothy Arliss OBrien “Desert Places” By: Robert Frost Music: “Arduous Aggressions” By: Timothy Arliss OBrien www.timothyarlissobrien.com
In the seventh episode of Poet Heroic I explore lurking emotions. Poems: “A Generic Understanding of Everything” Dear god I’m a Faggot By: timothy arliss obrien “Sphenoid” Juxtaprose Literary Magazine vol 15 by: Delany Lemke https://twitter.com/delovelylany “The Aesthetic of a Day Spent Without You” Dear God I’m a Faggot By: timothy arliss obrien “A poem in which I try to talk about being queer in the rural midwest and I just end up talking about deer again” Homology Lit By: Delany Lemke https://twitter.com/delovelylany “They Saw Again The Crocus Bloom” By: Louisa May Alcott Music: “Lurking Emotions” By: Timothy Arliss OBrien www.timothyarlissobrien.com
In the sixth episode of Poet Heroic I wander across brave exaltation. Poems: “I Am” Dear god I’m a Faggot By: timothy arliss obrien “Transformation of Night” Lisa MoonCat Stormler https://medium.com/@lmcatstormler “Things I have lost” Dear God I’m a Faggot By: timothy arliss obrien “Tabitha’s Trip to the Lake” By: Tabitha Acidz Insta: @tabitha_acidz “Dreamland” By: Lewis Carroll Music: “Brave Exaltation” By: Timothy Arliss OBrien www.timothyarlissobrien.com
In the fifth episode of Poet Heroic I travail across movable thoughts. Poems: “I followed ma joad to cali, why did you stay behind? ” Dear god I’m a Faggot By: timothy arliss obrien “Love in the Season of Uncertainty.” Lisa MoonCat Stormler https://medium.com/@lmcatstormler “This one is for Jess” Dear God I’m a Faggot By: timothy arliss obrien “Poems that kept me up at night” Deep Overstock Issue 7: Horror By: Nicholas Yandell www.nicholasyandel.com “The Angel” By: William Blake Music: “moveable thoughts” By: Timothy Arliss OBrien www.timothyarlissobrien.com
In the fourth episode of Poet Heroic I embark on an adventure through syllables that collide into one another. Poems: “How can we even afford to breathe?” Dear God I’m a Faggot By: Timothy Arliss OBrien www.timothyarlissobrien.com “Christianity Fucks You Up” My Name is Andy By: Andy Anderson https://www.blurb.com/b/9405616-hello-my-name-is-andy “Lunatic Vision” By: Jacob Davis Instagram @j.cubdavis “Undoing a Cure” Deep Overstock issue seven: horror By: Timothy Arliss OBrien www.timothyarlissobrien.com “Ironic Poem About Prostitution” By: George Orwell Music: “colliding syllables” By: Timothy Arliss OBrien www.timothyarlissobrien.com
In the third episode of Poet Heroic I embark on an adventure through moments in verse. Poems:
“Dawn Came” My Name is Andy By: Andy Anderson https://www.blurb.com/b/9405616-hello-my-name-is-andy
“The Memory” Dear God I’m a Faggot By: Timothy Arliss OBrien www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“Float My Way” By: The Cult Leader www.thecultleader.com
“The Fox and the Stocking” Dear God I’m a Faggot By: Timothy Arliss OBrien www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“The New Collosus” By: Emma Lazarus
Music: “moments in verse” By: Timothy Arliss OBrien www.timothyarlissobrien.com
In the second episode of Poet Heroic I take the listeners on a journey through some poetic confessionals. Poems: “Red Dawn” Deep Overstock: Issue 4 - Nautical Lore By: Timothy Arliss OBrien https://deepoverstock.com/2019/03/01/aqua-poems-from-the-sea-timothy-arliss-obrien/ www.timothyarlissobrien.com “Eventide’s Lament” By: Nicholas Yandell https://soundcloud.com/nicholas-alan-yandell/eventides-lament-mix12 www.nicholasyandell.com “Recipe for Lonliness” Dear God I’m a Faggot By: Timothy Arliss OBrien www.timothyarlissobrien.com “Contributions” By: The Cult Leader www.thecultleader.com “Taking Leave of a Friend” By: Ezra Pound Music: “poetic confessions” By: Timothy Arliss OBrien www.timothyarlissobrien.com
In the first episode of Poet Heroic, I introduce you to some of my favorite poems.
Poems:
"Kaleidoscope" Patchouli Bluez - 2017 by: Samuel Alberts insta: @patchoulibluez
"365" Dear God I'm A Faggot - 2019 by: Timothy Arliss OBrien www.timothyarlissobrien.com
"The Wraith" Deep Overstock: issue 5 - Dreams by: Nicholas Yandell https://deepoverstock.com/2019/06/03/the-wraith-nicholas-yandell/ www.nicholasyandell.com Inspired the composition "Just Minutes Ago: A Retrospective" https://soundcloud.com/nicholas-alan-yandell/just-minutes-ago-a-retrospective-live
"The Fishing Incident" Deep Overstock: Issue 4 - Nautical Lore by: Timothy Arliss OBrien https://deepoverstock.com/2019/03/01/aqua-poems-from-the-sea-timothy-arliss-obrien/ www.timothyarlissobrien.com
"Bell Upon Organ" by: George MacDonald
Music: "vantage points" by: Timothy Arliss OBrien www.timothyarlissobrien.com