Poets Mike Hazard, Patricia Barone, Norita Dittberner-Jax and I read poems about family relationships, going around one after another with deep feelings rising in the room among the poets and the listeners.

Brother and Sister is a folktale collected by the Grimm Brothers and was the springboard for my 1992 essay, Drinking at the Well of Instinct--the Way of the Hunter.  This recording was made as I told the tale to the Folktale Gardening Club of Minnesota.

From 1997 until 2006 I taught at-risk youth at the Minnesota Correctional Facility at Red Wing Minnesota. This section of my 2010 book includes the poems I wrote about my time there.   

In 2015 my wife Dalyce published her first picture book for children. She wrote, illustrated, and composed the theme for her book.   Sue Scott, previously with The Prairie Home Companion, narrated the audio version. Dan Chouinard composed and played the underscore for the audio book.  Here is the url for the YouTube version. Ellie and the Golden Cricket by Dalyce Elliott Young.

Poet and friend Maureen Skelly invited Dalyce and me onto her show at KFAI 90.3 Fresh Air Radio on December 15, 2024.  In the 1980s Maureen and I were cohosts with Roy McBride and Susu Jeffreys for the weekly Northland Literary Review. It was a pleasure to be back in the chair presenting some of the work Dalyce and I have done.

Here is the first section of my 2010 book of poetry, Herds of Bears Surround Us, published by Red Dragonfly Press.

At a Como Cottage Salon I told the Greek Tale of Orion.  My version tells of how Orion was cast into the night sky, and chases Scorpio because of the shadow in Apollonian divinity.

On December 22, 2018 Como Cottage Salon Series hosted an Evening of Stories. The storytellers included Timothy Young, Jesse Young, Walton Stanley, and Marty MIller.  This is the recording of a tale from the Finnish saga, The Kalevala.  Here is The Minstrel and the Maid of Beauty.

Thomas R. Smith introduced me to the poetic form of the Cinquain. At the beginning of the 20th century Adelaide Crapsey, who loved haiku poetry, thought that American English did not suit the haiku form and developed the cinquain as an American alternative for the short poem.