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The Two Boots Word Vault
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Words from Minnesota's Timothy Young, poet, essayist, and social thinker.
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The Special Love Live Presentation Mother's Day May 8, 2008
Yesterday00:39:56Tap to summarizeOn May 8, 2008 I was invited to speak to the United Christ Community in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. With the musical accompaniment of Yata Peinovich and Dalyce Elliott, I addressed the community about a special love for the divine feminine. The original recording, provided by the community had been overloaded with volume and inaudible. Thankfully, Greg Schuette of Bathtub Studios in Minneapolis was able to work digital magic and retrieve the complete presentation, with audible if flawed sound.
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Perfect Harmony and Overhanging Boughs at The American School of Storytelling 5-15-26
1w ago00:23:31Tap to summarizeOn May 15, 2026 Dalyce Elliott Young and I performed music and poetry from our 2011 CD Perfect Harmony. This episode is the recording of two of the evening's pieces, Ibn Hazm's Overhanging Boughs, and Ibn El-Arabi's Perfect Harmony. Brothers Jesse and Ryan Dermody provided percussion for these two pieces.
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The Backside of Sorrow with Brothers Burn Mountain
2w ago00:11:24Tap to summarizeOn May 15, 2026 The Brothers Burn Mountain, Jesse and Ryan Dermody, joined my wife Dalyce and I for a music and poetry presentation at the American School of Storytelling in Minneapolis. Jesse played percussion and Ryan played guitar. Dalyce provide her uniquely beautiful violin improvisations. on Alone With Her.
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Timothy Young and Glen Helgeson at Como Cottage 5-16-26
3w ago00:41:51Tap to summarizeNo description available
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Saints, Sinners, Scalawags and Sidewinders Poetry Scrum Round 3
4w ago00:13:22Tap to summarizeOn April 26, 2026 Dougie Padilla, Thomas R. Smith and I read poems for a Como Cottage Poetry Scrum. This is the third round of this non-competitive scrum. We had a great time, and heard each other read great poems, too.
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A Frogtown Editorial December 4, 1986 United Way Cuts Funds
Jun 100:07:32Tap to summarizeAfter five years working in Frogtown, and helping establish the Frogtown Community Association, I had to find other projects to work on. The United Way cut the FCA's share of funding for this impoverished neighborhood. Other funders followed the United Way's lead. Frogtown was the poorest and most heterogenous community in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Hundreds of neighbors had volunteered at the center. One year 4,000 of the 13,000 residents put in 40,000 volunteer hours at the center. The moneyed interests abandoned the area much too soon.
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Saints, Sinners, Scalawags and Sidewinders Poetry Scrum Round 2
May 2500:19:23Tap to summarizeOn April 26, 2026 Dougie Padilla, Thomas R. Smith and myself were featured for a Como Cottage Poetry Scrum. This is the second round of this non-competitive scrum. We had a great time, ribbing one another, too.
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Poetry, Nanola, and Moral Intelligence
May 1800:26:05Tap to summarizeThis essay was published in the first online issue of the magazine, Inroads, Creativity, Men, Soul on April 1, 2026. The original Inroads Magazine existed in the late 80s and the early 90s and was published by Anthony Signorelli with contributing editors Jonathan Stensland, John Lang and Thomas R. Smith. These magazines featured essays by James Hillman and poetry by Robert Bly and other men affiliated with or influenced by the Minnesota Men's Conferences Bly began in the early 80s. A few of my essays and poems also appeared there.
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Saints, Sinners, Scalawags and Sidewinders Poetry Scrum Round 1
May 1100:19:13Tap to summarizeOn April 26, 2026 Dougie Padilla, Thomas R. Smith and myself were featured for a Como Cottage Poetry Scrum. This is the first round for this non-competitive scrum. We had a great time, a phun time, as Dougie says.
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The Vocation of Poetry and its Ten Labors
May 400:35:34Tap to summarizeOn April 11, 2026 I presented a version of my take on Robert Bly's "The Vocation of Poetry and its Ten Labors" to the Australian group, The Fifth Direction. I gave examples of how poets respond to the ten labors, and a few opinions on why poets are so important to our cultural communities. Walton Stanley, storyteller and co-presenter, gave a lead-in passage from Shakespeare's The Tempest, and he closed out the time with the preface from Walt Whitman's The Leaves of Grass. Three of the best poets who have written in English, Shakespeare, Whitman, and Bly.
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