The Vowel Mouth Poetry Podcast

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The Vowel Mouth Poetry Podcast Podcast

Aiming to be a different sort of poetry podcast. Think of it as the Saturday morning cartoons of poetry shows. Carrying a torch for the legacy of Beat Poetry. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vowel-mouth-poetry/support

Episodes

  1. 21/05/2022

    Vowel Mouth Poetry Radio Hour - Episode 2

    The Vowel Mouth Poetry Radio Hour - showcasing a variety of poetic works in modern music. This episode features: You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night) - Meatloaf  Your House (Live at London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, 2020) - Alanis Morissette  Prince of Tides - Jimmy Buffett Beats & Poetry - Good WTHR featuring Learic Ghost Song - Jim Morrison Howl Pt. 1 - Gary Rees Bad Guy - Billie Eilish  The Black Widow- Alice Cooper  No Spoken Word - Stevie Nicks  Fell on Black Days (live at the Keswick Theater, recorded on April 10th, 2011)  - Chris Cornell Poem - Taproot At The Bottom of Everything - Bright Eyes BEAT NOTES:  October 7th commemorates the night in 1955 when a 29-year old Allen Ginsberg read his epic Beat Poetry manifesto, “Howl” for the first time to a sold out crowd at the now legendary Gallery 6 Reading in San Francisco. “Howl” became known as “The Poem that Changed America”. In 1957, U.S. Customs seized over 500 copies of Howl and Other Poems declaring the poetry collection “obscene.” Specifically, the obscene material in “Howl” refers to vulgar diction, drug and sexual references and sexuality. A short time later, two undercover police officers went into City Lights Bookstore to purchase “Howl and Other Poems,” and then immediately arrested the clerk for selling the obscene literature. A warrant was issued for the publisher & book store owner, who turned himself in. That man was Lawrence Ferlinghetti.  It was “The People of The State of California v. Lawrence Ferlinghetti”. And Lawrence Ferlinghetti won that case. The Judge noted that if these obscene words were substituted, the work would lose its meaning, and ruled that if this book were banned & deemed obscene, that it “would destroy our freedoms of free speech and press”. “Howl and Other Poems” was not deemed obscene—the charges were dropped. It was a win for Freedom of Speech. It was a win for sexual liberation. It was a win for creative expression. The poetry of the underground Beat Movement was a catalyst for the civil rights and social justice movements of the ’60’s, and which continues today. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vowel-mouth-poetry/support

    1h 4m

  2. 14/05/2022

    The Vowel Mouth Poetry Radio Hour - Episode 1

    The Vowel Mouth Poetry Radio Hour - Showcasing a variety of poetic works in popular music. This episode features:  Late Lament (Live at Red Rocks) - Moody Blues    Punch-In/Punch-Out - Seven Mary Three     Spill the Wine - Eric Burden & WAR     Hey Pretty - Poe     I had a slouch hat, too, one time - Jack Kerouac     Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan     Once In a Lifetime - Talking Heads     The Future - Leonard Cohen     St. Augustine in Hell - Sting    Life on Mars - David Bowie     The Future Will Not be Televised - Gil Scott Heron     The Trees - Rush    BEAT NOTES:  The Beat Generation was a literary movement started by a group of poets & writers whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era. The end of World War II left young intellectuals questioning the mainstream politics and culture of their parents, as well as a society which had sold them the American  Dream as a lie, and which had been a party to the horrors of war abroad, and to poverty & brutality across America. And as a result, the Beat generation emerged; writers, poets, musicians & artists interested in changing societal consciousness and defying conventional boundaries. The battle against social conformity and literary tradition were key elements of Beat culture. They chose to reject standard narrative values, reject economic materialism, explore spirituality, shine a light on explicit portrayals of the human condition, experiment with psychedelic drugs, and freely explore sexual liberation.  All rather taboo subjects in the 40's, 50's & 60's. Poetry and literature became the focus of obscenity trials that ultimately helped to ensure Freedom of Speech in publishing in the United States.  It was Kerouac who introduced the phrase "Beat Generation" in 1948 to characterize a perceived underground, anti-conformist youth movement. Beat described the mood of a disillusioned generation of young people let down by the adults they'd been told to trust. The Beats changed the landscape of our culture by incorporating poetry, art & music into a powerful voice for the marginalized, the oppressed, and the misunderstood.    --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vowel-mouth-poetry/support

    1h 3m

  3. 06/05/2022

    Message From Confucius

    "Message From Confucius." Regina Beck (ubuweb.com) "To Jack Kerouac" from Ted Berrigan (ubuweb.com) "Der Letzte Gedanke" - Lobo Loco (FreeMusicArchive.org) "MakeAChange" - K.I.R.K (FreeMusicArchive.org) "What You Should KNow to be a Poet" - Gary Snyder (ubuweb.com) "Crossroads" - #VoMoPo "Coffee" - Cliff Fyman (ubuweb.com) "Bird Poem" - Bryan Coley (FreeMusicArchive.org) "The Hitchhiking Robot & A Girl with a Penis" - Ripdae La Wise & Carl Yvan Prévil (FreeMusicArchive.org) "Lady Tactics" - Ann Waldman (ubuweb.com) "3 Subway Poems from a Temporary Worker" - Robin Messing (ubuweb.com) "Homeless" - Andrew Walton (FreeMusicArchive.org) "4 the Culture" - K.I.R.K. (FreeMusicArchive.org) "Twilight" - You're the Guy (FreeMusicArchive.org) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vowel-mouth-poetry/support

    38 min

  4. 05/03/2021

    The one with the happy ending...

    Susan Howe - There is No Good on Earth and Sin is But a Name (ubuweb.com). Project 5am - Space Mothlight- A collaboration with Diana Norma Szokolyai (FreeMusicArchive.org). Ink - Vowel Mouth Poetry (SoundCloud). Symphony of Science - Science is the Poetry of Reality (melodyshee.bandcamp.com). Frank O'Hara - Poem/Poem. Erika Huggins - For a Woman. Michale Mclure -There's Cruelty in Every Jewel. (ubuweb.com). Taboo - Les Baxter (Capitol Records, 1956). Natasha Donoway - I Drove an Hour For Ass (You Tube - Vowel Mouth Poetry) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vowel-mouth-poetry/support

    34 min

  5. 05/03/2021

    The "Vowel Mouth Poetry Presents: Vowel Mouth Poetry" Episode of the Vowel Mouth Poetry Podcast

    In observance of Women's History Month. Get to know #VoMoPo. Poetry. Funny clips. Weirdness. A different kind of poetry show.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vowel-mouth-poetry/support

    55 min

  6. 24/02/2021

    A crazy censure direction...

    We are celebrating the declaration of October 7th as National Beat Poetry Month. Featuring: Over Sexteen - Jubilee Record Co., 1951 Aesop's fables The Smothers Brothers Way - Mercury Records, 1965 Jose Jimenez - The Artist ("More... Jose Jimenez" - Kapp Records, Inc., 1959) "The Difference Between Men and Women" - ("Bill Cosby is a Very Funny Fellow... Right!" - Warner Bros Records, 1963) Anne Waldman - "How the Sestina (Yawn) Works (1972) - ubuweb.com Jim Carroll reading from The Basketball (1969) - ubuweb.com Taylor Mead - "Motorcycles" (1969) - ubuweb.com Emmet Williams - "Duet" (1968) - ubuweb.com Faeries at the Bottom of Our Garden - Dead Peoples Records - FreeMusicArchive.org --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vowel-mouth-poetry/support

    34 min
  7. The day Lawrence Ferlinghetti died, and National Beat Poetry Day became a thing.

    24/02/2021

    The day Lawrence Ferlinghetti died, and National Beat Poetry Day became a thing.

    Featuring: Over Sexteen - Jubilee Record Co., 1951 Bob Newhart - "The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back" (1960) - Warner Bros Records Lawrence Ferlinghetti - "The Lord's Prayer" (ubuweb.com) John Bovey - "Softly Softly" (FreeMusicArchive.org) Radioactive Sparrow -"My Book of Poetry"(FreeMusicArchive.org) Bryan Lewis Saunders - "The Glass Window" (FreeMusicArchive.org) Colin Shaddick & Roger - "A Lifetime with Jack" (FreeMusicArchive.org) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vowel-mouth-poetry/support

    26 min
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Aiming to be a different sort of poetry podcast. Think of it as the Saturday morning cartoons of poetry shows. Carrying a torch for the legacy of Beat Poetry. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/vowel-mouth-poetry/support

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