About this podcast
Words from Minnesota's Timothy Young, poet, essayist, and social thinker.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 128 episodes
- Timothy’s Poetry with Dan Cavanagh · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 33I have worked with Dan Cavanagh for over twenty years. He has many award-winning compositions and is currently the Music Director at the Mead-Witter School of Music at the…
- Frost, Sandburg, Jeffers, recordings · 16 min · Season 3 Episode 29Today want to continuing our listen to the recordings from Poetry Speaks the 2001 collection from Soundbooks Inc. narrated by Charles Osgood. These are three of my favorite early…
- Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Etheridge Knight · 15 min · Episode 28
- Poems from the Australian Bunya Mountains · 6 min · Season 3 Episode 27The first Australian Minnesota Men's Conference took place September 9 through 12 in Woodford, Australia. Ben Dennis, Miguel Rivera, Walton Stanley and me were invited to…
- Earliest Recordings of Whitman, Tennyson, Browning, and Yeats. · 14 min · Season 3 Episode 25In 2001 Sourcebooks, Inc. of Naperville, Ill. released a collection of poems recorded in the celebrated poets' own voices. In this episode I include some of the earliest…
- Teaching Serious, Chronic Offenders · 13 min · Season 2 Episode 5Over the years many have asked me, "What was it like to teach at Red Wing?" This episode is a recording of a short essay report about what it was like to be a teacher at the…
- Bears at the Tree of Slumbering Honey-- Poetry at MMC 2012 · 20 min · Season 2 Episode 11Each year at the Minnesota Men's Conference, each day begins with poetry. Men read and hear poems aimed at the masculine soul. This recording is from the first morning of the…
- The Power of Poetry is a Thread · 13 min · Season 1 Episode 7In 1983 I went looking for a newspaper position. Instead, when I met a man who had the very kind of job I sought, I found an affirmation that my path was not in the…
- The Sturgeon Lake Bottomfeeders 9-11-11 · 10 min · Season 3 Episode 23On September 11, 2011, the 10th anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers in New York, a group of men who met through the Minnesota Men's Conferences gathered in my…
- Robert Bly, Timothy Young, Thomas R. Smith, Jay Leeming at Martin Shaw's home 9-4-08 · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 22In late August and early September 2008 a number of poets, musicians, and storytellers associated with the Minnesota Men's Conferences and Robert Bly had been invited to the UK…
- Poetry at the 2007 Minnesota Men's Conference with intro by Robert Bly · 21 min · Season 2 Episode 10In 2007 Robert Bly introduced me before I read for the Minnesota Men's Conference. This was one of my favorite readings. A number of the poems were published in my second book…
- Poems with Josh Schmidt at the Minnesota Men's Conference Winter 2024 · 9 min · Season 3 Episode 24Josh Schmidt gave me, and the men attending the winter conference in 2024, tasty musical notes behind my poems. This is a repeat of an earlier podcast.
- Clip from a conversation for The Bear's Cabin w Thos. R Smith, dougie padilla, Walton Stanley · 2 minHere' a clip from the conversation with poets Thomas R. Smith, dougie padilla, and storyteller and publisher, Walton Stanley, about my insistence for the physical aspect of poetry.
- Carl Sandburg reads a Rootabaga Story from his 1922 collection · 16 min · Season 3 Episode 22So many young don't practice the oral arts and cannot read poetry very well. Here is a 1958 recording of the great American poet, Carl Sandburg, reading one of his Rootabaga…
- Walton Stanley Reads Poems for the Fifth Direction Elder Circle 2026 · 11 min · Season 3 Episode 20Since October 2020 Walton Stanley and I have met monthly on zoom with men from the Australian based Fifth Direction. We always begin and end our sessions with poetry. Here's…
- Dalyce Elliott, Gary Waryan and Friends play On Namah Shivaya with Rumi Poems · 12 min · Season 3 Episode 21In 1999 my wife Dalyce was playing her violin with a group of friends. They specialized in kirtan chants. I was working on new versions of Rumi poems at that time. When I found…
- The Haughty Princess, a Grimm's Tale · 17 min · Season 3 Episode 19So often we identify with a character in a story or a tale. But what if those characters are not people, but parts of our individual psyches? In the Haughty Princess tale what if…
- The Special Love Live Presentation Mother's Day May 8, 2008 · 40 min · Season 3 Episode 18On May 8, 2008 I was invited to speak to the United Christ Community in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. With the musical accompaniment of Yata Peinovich and Dalyce Elliott, I addressed…
- Perfect Harmony and Overhanging Boughs at The American School of Storytelling 5-15-26 · 24 min · Season 3 Episode 17On May 15, 2026 Dalyce Elliott Young and I performed music and poetry from our 2011 CD Perfect Harmony. This episode is the recording of two of the evening's pieces, Ibn Hazm's…
- The Backside of Sorrow with Brothers Burn Mountain · 11 min · Season 3 Episode 16On May 15, 2026 The Brothers Burn Mountain, Jesse and Ryan Dermody, joined my wife Dalyce and I for a music and poetry presentation at the American School of Storytelling in…
