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  • wonderful wisdom - episode forty six

    In the 46th episode of The Poet Heroic I explore wonderful wisdom.
    From the 46th episode:
    “Green Tea and Sage”
    By:  Jesse Thomas


    “I’m a Caged Ghost”
    By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
    www.timothyarlissobrien.com
    “In Pursuit of Good Fiction”
    By: Robert Zwilling
    “Some Days I Find Poem Scråps All Around Me”
    By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
    www.timothyarlissobrien.com


    “Proprioception”
    By: Lukas Quinn
    “I Think Continually of =Those Who Were Truly Great”
    By: Stephen Spender
    Music: timothy arliss obrien

    Release date: 4.16.25

    16 min
  • explosive explorations - episode forty five

    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


    11 min
  • rambling roads - episode forty four

    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


    16 min
  • invasive immersions - episode forty three

    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

    14 min
  • abstract acquiescence - episode forty two

    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


    11 min
  • pensive polishings - episode forty one

    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

    11 min
  • methodical melancholia - episode forty

    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



    16 min
  • gorgeous grandeurs - episode thirty nine

    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


    15 min
  • luscious lamentations - episode thirty eight


    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

    18 min
  • loud lackings - episode thirty seven

    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

    14 min

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The Poet Heroic is a monthly podcast and small press publisher of poetry, curated by poet and composer Timothy Arliss OBrien.