The Poet Heroic
By Timothy Arliss OBrien
Each episode takes the listener on a journey through three poems by guest writers, two poems by the host Timothy, and one from a favorite classic author.
The Poet HeroicSep 22, 2023
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: Komihttps://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 OBrienPublished in Dear God I’m a Faggot“The Amulet”By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
“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
“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
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
“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.
“Time’s Fool”By: Asteria
@times_fool
“A Jelly-Fish”
By: Marianne Moore
Music: timothy arliss obrien
Release date: 6.3.23
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
“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
“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
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
“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
dynamic dispositions - episode thirty six
In the thirty-sixth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore dynamic dispositions
From the thirty-sixth episode:
“Atmospheric River”
By: Jay Nuwald
https://linktr.ee/jaynuwald
“If You Were To Cut Open My Stomach”
Published in Dear God I’m a Faggot
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“Once and Future Pigeon”
By: Jennifer Kemnitz
Published in The Art of Learning to Fly
https://www.instagram.com/hopelessecstatic/
This week’s writing prompt is to pick up a pen and give me the loudest silence you have ever experienced.
“Matryoshka”
By: Ry Downey
“Love”
Published in Dear God I’m a Faggot
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
The wise words of author Jay Nuwald “Poetry, to me, is the language of dreams. The words we use describe things no other medium can: a part of the mind or a place or a taste or a smell—experiences that cannot be had any other way. ”
"Prometheus"
Lord George Gordon Byron
music: timothy arliss obrien
release date: December 10th 2022
harmless hope - episode thirty five
In the thirty-fifth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore harmless hope
From the thirty-fifth episode:
“I Am Like Water”
By: Karen A. Szklany
https://www.instagram.com/labyrinth_dragon/
“The Precipice”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Published in Dear God I’m a Faggot
“Spirit of the City”
By: Nicholas Yandell
Published in The Art of Learning to Fly
https://www.nicholasyandell.com/
“Time”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
#33 published in They
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“History of Monotype”
By: Irina Tall
www.twitter.com/IrinaTall87
“The Oven Bird”
By: Robert Frost
music: timothy arliss obrien
release date: november twenty-seventh 2022
generous goals - episode thirty four
In the thirty-fourth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore generous goals
from the thirty-fourth episode:
“How to Mourn the Memories you Miss (or Flowers for Sixteen)”
By:Maggie Kaprielian
https://www.instagram.com/maggiekaprielian_/
“Lost Train Ticket”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Written on the podcast Late Night Pomes episode 24
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“Cycles”
By: Oluwakemi Esho
https://oluwakemiesho.com/
“Fly”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Published in The Art of Learning to Fly
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“January 27, 2017”
By: Amy Oxford
“The Roman Road”
By: Thomas Hardy
music: timothy arliss obrien
release date: november sixteenth 2022
magical musings - episode thirty three
In the thirty-third episode of The Poet Heroic I explore magical musings
From the thirty-third episode:
“Paradox on the Stage”
By: Adrija Jana
Published in Justice for Society Magazine, Issue 14
Instagram: @adrija_jana2004
“ 9’ x 12’ - $1798 “
By: Timothy Arliss
Published in Dear God I’m a Faggot
www.timothyarlissobrien@gmail.com
“Toothbrush in Your Bathroom”
By: Val
https://instagram.com/eatmysorrow
“Drunk on Vodka and Seltzer”
By: Timothy Arliss Obrien
Published in Happy LGBTQ Wrath Month
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“The Way This Day Went”
By: Ted Burke
www.ted-burke-poems.blogspot.com
www.thevariablefoot.com
www.ted-burke.com
“The Oak”
By: Alfred Lord Tennyson
release date: october twenty seventh 2022
punctual percussions - episode thirty two
In the thirty-second episode of The Poet Heroic I explore punctual percussions.
From the thirty-second episode:
“Haunted by Flowers of the Fae”
By: Linda M. Crate
https://twitter.com/thysilverdoe
“On the Moon”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Published in Dear God I’m a Faggot
“Lunch Date”
By: Regina Beach
www.reginagbeach.com
“If I Had Wings”
By: Nicholas Yandell
Published in The Art of Learning to Fly
www.nicholasyandell.com
“Asp-bite & River Rocks”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Published in Happy LGBTQ Wrath Month
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“The Garden of Love”
By: William Blake
release date: september eleventh 2022
roaming riddles - episode thirty one
In the thirty-first episode of The Poet Heroic I explore roaming riddles.
“The Academician”
By: Raphael Almagor
http://almagor.blogspot.com
“The First Liftoff”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Published in The Art of Learning to Fly
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“There is an Old Tree Growing”
By: Zach Beach
www.zachbeach.com
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09Y6PKBX1
“Life Makes us Happy”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Published in Happy LGBTQ Wrath Month
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
https://www.powells.com/book/happy-lgbtq-wrath-month-9781034898368
“Sandpaper Air”
By: Daniel Hess
https://totonyproductions.com/
https://www.instagram.com/totonyproductions/
“A Mood”
By: George MacDonald
valiant victories - episode thirty
In the thirtieth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore valiant victories.
“Antic disposition”
By: Alex Long
Www.Twitter.com/AllDayLongI
“Love Returned“
Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“Tangle Me in Your Roots So I Can Feel Loved”
By: X Ballantyne
https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=356977
“Dinosaur Idioms”
Written on the podcast Late Night Pomes episode 24
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“Stranger I Once Was”
published in Maudlin House
By: Michelle Drozdick
https://twitter.com/drozphallic
“The Argument of His Book”
By: Robert Herrick
This poem is in the public domain
floral foundries - episode twenty nine
In the twenty-ninth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore floral foundries.
“How I Learned to Pray”
By: Nicole Rollender
2017 winner of the Poetry of the Sacred Contest,
published in Parabola Magazine
https://store.parabola.org/vol-424-families-p199.aspx
www.nicolemrollender.com
“Spring Cleaning”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“Nightwatch”
By: Simon Hauwaerts
https://www.instagram.com/simonhauwaerts/
“The Garden of the Heart“
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“Temple Body”
By: Sloane Angelou
Published in Zero Readers
https://linktr.ee/SloaneAngelou
“The Sea Spirit”
Madison Julius Cawein
This poem is in the public domain
This week’s writing prompt is to pick up a pen and describe something without full sentences.
languish language - episode twenty eight
In the twenty-eighth episode of The Poet Heroic, I explore languish language.
“Planted Apartment”
By: J Farrington
https://twitter.com/ojfarrington
“Turn on the Mic”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Published in “Happy LGBTQ Wrath Month” (2021)
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“Fruit”
By: Dave Malone
Published in “Elder Mountain: A Journal of Ozark Studies” & “Tornado Drill” (Aldrich Press, April 2022)
www.davemalone.net
“That Van Gogh Cow Cart”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Published in “Happy LGBTQ Wrath Month” (2021)
“The Unburnt Toast”
By: Fizza Abbas
Published in “Stone of Madness Press”
https://twitter.com/fizzawrites
“Double Red Daisies”
Robert von Ranke Graves
maniacal might - episode twenty seven
In the twenty-seventh episode of The Poet Heroic, I explore maniacal might.
“Street Lights”
By: Sarah Corwin
https://www.instagram.com/dontlookpoems/
“Simplicity”
“Happy LGBTQ Wrath Month” (2021)
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/happy-lgbtq-wrath-month-9781034898368
“Half-Baked History”
By: Rozann Kraus
“Just a Sad Poet”
“Happy LGBTQ Wrath Month” (2021)
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/happy-lgbtq-wrath-month-9781034898368
“Get a Grip”
By: Asteria Valentine
https://www.instagram.com/whereisasteria/
https://twitter.com/asteriaisadream
“The World Is Too Much With Us”
William Wordsworth
tenacious tensions - episode twenty six
26. In the twenty-sixth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore tenacious tensions
Poems:
“Mudslides”
By: Felicia Reninger
“Blue Moon”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
“Free Me”
By: Chancellor K. Jackson
www.maggielogic.com
“A thousand new lovers in the next year”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
“Wall Flower”
By: Maggie Daniels
Published in “Swimming” (2020)
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/swimming-maggie-daniels/1138541568?ean=9780578831992
www.maggielogic.com
“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing”
By: Walt Whitman
polished pointillism - episode twenty five
In the twenty-fifth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore polished pointillism.
Poems:
“First Love:
By: Amy Oxford
“On Sanctuary”
“Happy LGBTQ Wrath Month” (2021)
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/happy-lgbtq-wrath-month-9781034898368
“Venus Flytrap”
By: Erin Karbuczky
“My Favorite Bar”
“Dear God I’m a Faggot” (2019)
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/dear-god-im-a-faggot-9780368135866
“Moth Butterfly”
By: Carrie Ann Stotts
https://www.instagram.com/carrie.a.stotts/
“To Hang Our Head Ostensibly”
By: Emily Dickenson
Music:
Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
monochromatic musings - episode twenty four
24. In the twenty-fourth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore monochromatic musings.
Poems:
“The Depth of Hell”
By: B. L. Foxley
www.blfoxley.com
https://www.instagram.com/blfoxley/
https://twitter.com/blfoxley
https://www.tiktok.com/@blfoxley?lang=en
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/blfoxley/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1711639486/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
“The Lady in The Leather Jacket”
“Happy LGBTQ Wrath Month” (2021)
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/happy-lgbtq-wrath-month-9781034898368
“And No One Hears It”
By: Kristen Baum DeBeasi
https://issuu.com/richardholleman/docs/voiceofeve_issue15
“Lost Things”
“Happy LGBTQ Wrath Month” (2021)
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/happy-lgbtq-wrath-month-9781034898368
“Trekking Through Eden”
By: Jay Nuwald
https://allpoetry.com/Jay_Nuwald
“Rain Has Fallen All The Day”
By: James Joyce
Music:
Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
dead bees - episode twenty three
In the twenty-third episode of The Poet Heroic I explore Dead Bees. A new zine of poetry by author Mel Green, published by Zines +Things.
Poems:
“The Street Sweep”
By: Mel Green
https://www.instagram.com/melrainbows/
“In Constant Conversation”
By: Mel Green
https://www.instagram.com/melrainbows/
“Save the Bees”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
“How to Trust”
By: Mel Green
https://www.instagram.com/melrainbows/
“Holy Juxtaposition”
By: Mel Green
https://www.instagram.com/melrainbows/
“God’s World”
By: Edna St. Vincent Millay
Music:
Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
sensational senses - episode twenty two
Poems:
“The Same Form”
By: Rhiannon Bates
www.instagram.com/p/BsRWbpnhwdw/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
“Midnight Train”
“Happy LGBTQ Wrath Month” (2021)
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.powells.com/book/happy-lgbtq-wrath-month-9781034898368
“Blue Collar Blues”
By: Ken Tomoro
Twitter: @Anxietymlkshake
“Cancel the Sweltering Summer”
“Happy LGBTQ Wrath Month” (2021)
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.powells.com/book/happy-lgbtq-wrath-month-9781034898368
“Touched by Fire”
By: JD Cromwell
www.poetrysoup.com/poems_poets/poems_by_poet.aspx?ID=122178
“The Bush Fire”
By: Henry Lawson
Music: Timothy Arliss OBrien
wonderful writing - episode twenty one
In the twenty-first episode of The Poet Heroic I explore wonderful writing.
Poems:
“Love”
Dear God I’m a Faggot (2019)
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/dear-god-im-a-faggot-9780368135866
“These Seasons Endure”
By: Anna Lobianco
“That’s His Thing”
Dear God I’m a Faggot (2019)
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/dear-god-im-a-faggot-9780368135866
“Live LikeThe Sun, Die Like a Sunset”
A Forever Kind of Dream (2015)
Ifeanyi Ogbo
https://instagram.com/ifeanyi_awesome?utm_medium=copy_link
https://www.powells.com/book/a-forever-kind-of-dream-9780692584804
“The Moment of Our Lives”
By: Vua
https://www.instagram.com/vua.dreams/
“The Enemies“
By: Elizabeth Jennings
Music: Timothy Arliss OBrien
pensive possibilities - episode twenty
In the twentieth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore pensive possibilities.
Poems:
“We Live in Strange Times (It’s Not Our Fault)”
By: Robert Westlake
“A Battery, A Dragon, A Reason to Move Across the Country”
Dear God I’m a Faggot (2019)
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/dear-god-im-a-faggot-9780368135866
“Outside My Body”
By: Carrie A. Stotts
Instagram: @carrie.a.stotts
“Having A Reoccurring Dream: A Poem in Three Parts”
Dear God I’m a Faggot (2019)
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/dear-god-im-a-faggot-9780368135866
“Friends From Before”
Lisa MoonCat Stormler
https://medium.com/@lmcatstormler
“Hope“
By: Emily Dickinson
Music: Timothy Arliss OBrien
existential enigmas - episode nineteen
In the nineteenth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore existential enigmas.
Poems:
“Only in the movies”
By: Ken Tomaro
Twitter: @AnxietyMlkshake
“Where Life Began: Nature 1. Forests”
Deep Overstock: Issue 10 - Origin of Life
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://deepoverstock.com/2020/10/01/where-life-began-nature-timothy-arliss-obrien/
“Our Chasm, So Far Part 1”
By: DeForest Dalbec
“Where Life Began: Nature 1. Sea”
Deep Overstock: Issue 10 - Origin of Life
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://deepoverstock.com/2020/10/01/where-life-began-nature-timothy-arliss-obrien/
“The Moon is Distant From the Sea
By: Emily Dickinson
Music: Timothy Arliss OBrien
daunting doting - episode eighteen
18. In the eighteenth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore daunting doting.
Poems:
“Where Life Began: Nature 1. Waters”
Deep Overstock: Issue 10 - Origin of Life
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://deepoverstock.com/2020/10/01/where-life-began-nature-timothy-arliss-obrien/
“Stuck Inside Your Web”
By: Liam Ortmeier
Instagram: @liam_ortmeier @worldeatermagazine
“Where Life Began: Nature 2. Trees”
Deep Overstock: Issue 10 - Origin of Life
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://deepoverstock.com/2020/10/01/where-life-began-nature-timothy-arliss-obrien/
“Remember Korsokov”
By: Stefan George Mario
https://www.reddit.com/r/Poems/comments/jvxl8n/remember_korsakov/
“A Mountain Station”
By: Banjo Paterson
Music: Timothy Arliss OBrien
fluctuating feelings - episode seventeen
In the seventeenth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore fluctuating feelings
Poems:
“Being a Third Wheel at a Party is Like Spilling a Drink”
Dear God I’m a Faggot (2019)
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/dear-god-im-a-faggot-9780368135866
“Quarantine”
By: Tiffany Kanny
“The Architecture of the Apple Tree”
Deep Overstock: Issue 8 - Structures
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://deepoverstock.com/2020/03/17/the-architecture-of-the-apple-tree-timothy-arliss-obrien/
“Caterpillars”
By:Carrie Ann Stotts
Instagram: @carrie.a.stotts
https://app.thebookpatch.com/BookStore/flowers-for-alex/441688ac-7515-45d2-b4d0-183f001a4124?isbn=9781648582592
“An Irish Airman foresees his death”
By: William Butler Yeats
Music: “Fluctuating Feelings”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
obvious opposites - episode sixteen
In the sixteenth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore obvious opposites
Poems:
“Hollywood Rain”
The Oddvillepress Summer 2020
https://oddvillepress.com/pdf/The-Oddville-Press-Summer-2020.pdf
By: Scott Laudati
https://www.instagram.com/scottlaudati/
“Her”
Dear God I’m a Faggot (2019)
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/dear-god-im-a-faggot-9780368135866
“Bought roses on impulse”
By:Felicia Reninger
“Would you rather”
Dear God I’m a Faggot (2019)
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/dear-god-im-a-faggot-9780368135866
“Flapper”
By: D. H. Lawrence
occasional oddities - episode fifteen
helpful heartbeats - episode fourteen
In the fourteenth episode of The Poet Heroic I explore helpful heartbeats.
Poems:
“Your Commute Never Takes You Home”
Dear God I’m a Faggot (2019)
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/dear-god-im-a-faggot-9780368135866
“Shower Thoughts”
By: Andrew Oakes
https://www.instagram.com/andrew.oakes.737/
“Empty Cupboards”
Deep Overstock: Issue 9- New Arrivals
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://deepoverstock.com/2020/06/30/empty-cupboards-timothy-arliss-obrien/
“Blackberry Season”
By: Adam Eason
https://www.adameasonmusic.com/
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
By: Robert Frost
Music: “Helpful Heartbeats”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
opulent moments - episode thirteen
In the thirteenth episode of the Poet Heroic I explore opulent moments.
Poems:
“Kronos by the Sea”
By: John Chrostek
https://johnchrostek.wordpress.com/
https://twitter.com/yoncrowstack
“The Rat King”
Dear God I’m a Faggot (2019)
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/dear-god-im-a-faggot-9780368135866
“The Sounds of Quarantine”
By: Andy Anderson
https://www.blurb.com/b/9405616-hello-my-name-is-andy
“When Your Friend Group Isn’t a Forbes 500 Company (or a 501c3)”
Dear God I’m a Faggot (2019)
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
https://www.powells.com/book/dear-god-im-a-faggot-9780368135866
“A Dream”
By: Edgar Allan Poe
Music: “Opulent Moments”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
hopeful happenings - episode twelve
Poems:
“8100 Polls.”
Spoken Word By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
Music by Banadu
open.spotify.com/artist/4fPkcgyXEB93JncKYAcmUv
“The Eruption of Mount Novak”
Calyx, vol. 31, no. 1
By: Jennifer Kemnitz
www.instagram.com/hopelessecstatic/
“Memories from Oklahoma”
Deep Overstock: Issue 6- Westerns
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
deepoverstock.com/2019/10/10/memories-from-oklahoma-timothy-arliss-obrien/
“Anxiety Attack”
By: Felicia Reninger
allpoetry.com/Rashae
“Over the Banisters”
By: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Music: “Hopefully Happenings”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
indespensible imagery - episode eleven
Poems:
“Anna and the Wobbly Star.”
Dear God I’m a Faggot
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
“Familial Vice”
By: The Cult Leader
www.thecultleader.com
“Living Structures”
Deep Overstock: Issue 8- Structures
By: Nicholas Yandell
deepoverstock.com/2020/03/17/living-structures-nicholas-yandell/
“Forever and Always”
By: J. M. Stites
“We Two Boys Together Clinging”
By: Walt Whitman
Music: “Indispensable Imagery”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
grand gestures - episode ten
Poems:
“Tiger Preens Its Cage”
By: Robert Torres
www.instagram.com/gayspacecommunismwillwin
“The Chosen One”
Dear God I’m a Faggot
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
“New Plague”
By: Colin Keating
www.instagram.com/francisbaconbits
“If You Were to Cut Open My Stomach”
Dear God I’m a Faggot
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
“Common Places”
By: Rudyard Kipling
Music: “Sizable Solutions”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
sizable solutions - episode nine
Poems:
“Skin”
Dear God I’m a Faggot
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
“Sebastapol”
by: Samuel Alberts
www.instagram.com/patchoulibluez
“The Feeling of Love”
Dear God I’m a Faggot
by: Timothy Arliss OBrien
“7.1 California Earthquake, July 2019”
by: Jacob Michael Howell
www.phenomastrology.com
“A Ballade of Suicide”
by: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Music: “Sizable Solutions”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
arduous aggressions - episode eight
Poems:
“Take Refuge in the Sky”
By: Nicholas Yandell
www.nicholasyandell.com
“Ordinary Day”
Dear God I’m a Faggot
by: Timothy Arliss OBrien
“Cold Tea”
By: Kelsey Davis
instagram @kels.davis.art
”NE Grand and Broadway”
Dear God I’m a Faggot
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
“Desert Places”
By: Robert Frost
Music: “Arduous Aggressions”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
lurking emotions - episode seven
Poems:
“A Generic Understanding of Everything”
Dear god I’m a Faggot
By: timothy arliss obrien
“Sphenoid”
Juxtaprose Literary Magazine vol 15
by: Delany Lemke
twitter.com/delovelylany
“The Aesthetic of a Day Spent Without You”
Dear God I’m a Faggot
By: timothy arliss obrien
“A poem in which I try to talk about being queer in the rural midwest and I just end up talking about deer again”
Homology Lit
By: Delany Lemke
twitter.com/delovelylany
“They Saw Again The Crocus Bloom”
By: Louisa May Alcott
Music: “Lurking Emotions”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
brave exaltation - episode six
Poems:
“I Am”
Dear god I’m a Faggot
By: timothy arliss obrien
“Transformation of Night”
Lisa MoonCat Stormler
medium.com/@lmcatstormler
“Things I have lost”
Dear God I’m a Faggot
By: timothy arliss obrien
“Tabitha’s Trip to the Lake”
By: Tabitha Acidz
Insta: @tabitha_acidz
“Dreamland”
By: Lewis Carroll
Music: “Brave Exaltation”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
moveable thoughts - episode five
Poems:
“I followed ma joad to cali, why did you stay behind? ”
Dear god I’m a Faggot
By: timothy arliss obrien
“Love in the Season of Uncertainty.”
Lisa MoonCat Stormler
medium.com/@lmcatstormler
“This one is for Jess”
Dear God I’m a Faggot
By: timothy arliss obrien
“Poems that kept me up at night”
Deep Overstock Issue 7: Horror
By: Nicholas Yandell
www.nicholasyandel.com
“The Angel”
By: William Blake
Music: “moveable thoughts”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
colliding syllables - episode four
Poems:
“How can we even afford to breathe?”
Dear God I’m a Faggot
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“Christianity Fucks You Up”
My Name is Andy
By: Andy Anderson
www.blurb.com/b/9405616-hello-my-name-is-andy
“Lunatic Vision”
By: Jacob Davis
Instagram @j.cubdavis
“Undoing a Cure”
Deep Overstock issue seven: horror
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“Ironic Poem About Prostitution”
By: George Orwell
Music: “colliding syllables”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
moments in verse - episode three
Poems:
“Dawn Came”
My Name is Andy
By: Andy Anderson
www.blurb.com/b/9405616-hello-my-name-is-andy
“The Memory”
Dear God I’m a Faggot
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“Float My Way”
By: The Cult Leader
www.thecultleader.com
“The Fox and the Stocking”
Dear God I’m a Faggot
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
“The New Collosus”
By: Emma Lazarus
Music: “moments in verse”
By: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
poetic confessions - episode two
vantage points - episode one
Poems:
"Kaleidoscope"
Patchouli Bluez - 2017
by: Samuel Alberts
insta: @patchoulibluez
"365"
Dear God I'm A Faggot - 2019
by: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
"The Wraith"
Deep Overstock: issue 5 - Dreams
by: Nicholas Yandell
deepoverstock.com/2019/06/03/the-wraith-nicholas-yandell/
www.nicholasyandell.com
Inspired the composition "Just Minutes Ago: A Retrospective"
soundcloud.com/nicholas-alan-yandell/just-minutes-ago-a-retrospective-live
"The Fishing Incident"
Deep Overstock: Issue 4 - Nautical Lore
by: Timothy Arliss OBrien
deepoverstock.com/2019/03/01/aqua-poems-from-the-sea-timothy-arliss-obrien/
www.timothyarlissobrien.com
"Bell Upon Organ"
by: George MacDonald
Music:
"vantage points"
by: Timothy Arliss OBrien
www.timothyarlissobrien.com