The Vowel Mouth Poetry Podcast

The Vowel Mouth Poetry Podcast

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The Vowel Mouth Poetry Podcast episodes

  • 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.
    1 hr 5 min
  • 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.   


    1 hr 4 min
  • 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)

    39 min
  • 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)
    34 min
  • 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
    34 min
  • 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)
    27 min

About The Vowel Mouth Poetry Podcast

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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.