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 Events & News
September 8th- 13th, 2009
Minnesota Men's Conference
25th Annual at Camp Miller
Sturgeon Lake, Minnesota
WHERE IS IRON JOHN NOW?
Twenty five years have passed since the first Minnesota Men’s
Conference and what has happened?
Men’s work began by asking what sort of fathering and mentoring was
possible for young men inside their own families and within the culture as a
whole.
There is a deep hunger for intelligent leadership from adult men. It seems
clear that many men have become involved in the complicated work of fathering
and mentoring young men and women, yet it is also clear there's a lot more to
be done.
In the early 80's Robert Bly used the story of
"Iron John" to lay out a map of the soul's journey in maturing the
deep masculine. This year as we retell the story “Iron
John”, we will ask those new to this story, and those who have lived
it: 'Where are we now in this story? What is valuable about this story of
Iron John?' What other stories do we need?
For more information call:
Craig Ungerman (860) 923-6987, (860-942-1658 mobile)
and many friends and other teachers
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On
April 21, 2009 Dan Cavanagh’s new beatbox/classical composition, IN THE SILENCE, with
Timothy Young’s translation of the 11th Century poem by Andalusion Arabic poet, Ibn Hazm, as the
source document, premiered to a standing ovation at Virginia Tech University.
The TWO BOOTS
in the United Kingdom
September 2008
Timothy
Young reads
William
Stafford at the
Westcountry Storytelling
Festival
Dartington, Devon, UK
Timothy
Young at Wildwise
Wilderness
Poetry Session on
Dartmoor, Devon, UK
Poets,
Jay Leeming and Timothy Young,
with
four from Gifted Students
Creative
Writing Class
South Dartmoor Communtiy College
A
groundling’s view of Globe Theatre
September
2008
Timothy,
Jay Leeming, and musician Tim Frantzich
at Haytor, Dartmoor Devon, UK
Thomas
R. Smith at St. James Church,
Picadilly in
London, home of the
William Blake Society
POETRY
AND MUSIC WEEK
ON
MALLARD ISLAND 2008
Left to right: Duncan Storlie, caretaker;
Dave Peterson, guitarist;
Glen Helgeson,
guitarists;
Scott King, poet; Dalyce
Elliott, violinist;
Dan Cavanagh,
pianist and composer;
Diane Tessari,
caretaker;
Yata Peinovich,
singer/songwriter;
kneeling, Timothy Young, poet;
Thea Ennen,
vocalist, snapped the picture.
July
20-26
Mallard Island
Rainy Lake, Minnesota
Poetry
and Music Week on Mallard
Island. Timothy Young
hosts
invited poets and musicians in a week
long retreat
at
the Ernest Oberholtzer Foundation’s
wilderness island campus
photo by Yata
Timothy Young on Ober’s
porch
NEW,
NEW, NEW!!!
SNOW HAS FALLEN
By YOUNG
& YATA
Sample at
http://cdbaby.com/cd/youngandyata
Dear Friend,
Poet,
Timothy Young and singer/songwriter, Yata Peinovich have collaborated to produce Snow Has Fallen—fourteen tracks
of music and poetry. These two mature artists clothe lyrics with multiform
melodies, driving rhythms and piercing harmonies. For today’s listener, Young and Yata offer a new trail into the wild realm of spoken word
art.
These
tracks maintain the integrity of Young’s contemporary poetry and
feature his gritty vocal performances.
Yata’s fertile garden of guitar sounds
and his impeccable singing are highlighted by his melodic compositions. A chorus here and there, a few
poems transformed into songs, and a variety of emotional tones and poignant
observations make Snow Has Fallen unique
and accessible.
Bruce
Hecksel engineered the recording and provides
layers of musical solos, savvy accompaniments and deft productions. Add an occasional confection from Dalyce Elliott’s violin, and this work reaches back
in time and honors an attention to the natural world of Troubador
minstrels while pushing ahead to the Twenty First Century. It dives into timeless love and cavorts
in a delight for the complexities of life.
Share
this poetry, these messages and the music with your friends. If you feel so
inclined, review it for any of the various on-line venues, blogs, or paper publications. Lyrics are published and available
online at www.twoboots.net/poems.
In the near future, download samples will be available. CDs may be purchased with a credit
card on line at www.yatayata.com or with a check and order form from www.twoboots.net/order
. For more information see www.yatayata.com
or www.twoboots.net.
Thanks for listening and supporting
live music and poetry.
For more CDs by Yata
See www.yatayata.com
Timothy Young records with
Jazz Composer, Daniel Cavanagh
Timothy
traveled to Arlington, Texas to perform a jazz composition in
three movements composed by Dan Cavanagh. Tentatively titled, Mississippi Ecstasy , this fifteen minutes of
contemporary jazz is interspersed by the words of the long poem, which was
commissioned by Cavanagh for this project. Cavanagh,
an award-winning jazz composer, recorded seven other jazz pieces with the
Jazz Emporium Big Band, nationally prominent musicians gathered for this
album, titled Pulse, on the
Seattle-based, OA2 Jazz label.
 The Shorthorn:
Michael Rettig
University of Texas-Arlington Assistant
Professor of Music Dan Cavanagh,
foreground, listens to the
playback of a vocal overdub by poet Timothy Young, background, on Monday
March 3 at Crystal Clear Studios in Dallas.
Cavanagh's band, the Jazz Emporium Big Band, is
recording tracks for their first album.
top: Thomas R. Smith, poet, Mike
Quick, songwriter, Robert Bly, poet, Yata, songwriter,
Timothy Young, poet,
bottom: Elaine Thrune,
president of Oberholtzer Foundation Board of
Directors, Tim Ishii, jazz musican, and Dan Cavanagh, jazz
musician and composer.
MAY 17, 2006 WEDNESDAY AT LINCOLN
CENTER, NEW YORK CITY
JOY SOUP, the jazz
composition, premiered in Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York, May 17, 2006. On April 8,
2005, the composer and jazz pianist, DANIEL CAVANAGH, won the 2005 commissioning project of
the New York Youth Symphony Jazz Band composer's competition with none other
than Having
Built in Deeper Water (inspired by
Timothy Young’s poetry
book, BUILDING IN DEEPER WATER). He was commissioned to compose another
piece, and wrote the jazz composition inspired by another of Timothy’s
poems, JOY
SOUP. For more information on Daniel Cavanagh and his work see www.dancavanagh.com
Timothy Young, Daniel Cavanagh, and Tim Ishii
Photo
by: Megumi Rooze The
Shorthorm
FEBRUARY 9, 2006
Thursday UNIVERSITY
OF TEXAS-ARLINGTON
Timothy Young appeared
with the jazz composer and pianist, Daniel Cavanagh,
saxophonist, Tim Ishii, bassist, Chris Carfa and
drummer, Jaime Reyes at a collaborative, cross-disciplinary music and poetry
concert at the Irons Recital Hall on the University of Texas-Arlington
campus. The evening featured
poems from Timothy’s ecstatic collection, Into The Ocean Without Shores, with music composed by Daniel Cavanagh.
Click Reviews, above,
for the news story in The Shorthorn UTA’s
student newspaper, 2-10-06
TIMOTHY YOUNG AND TWO BOOTS IN BALI
Timothy Young joined poet, Jay Leeming, the Noah Project, a men’s singing group
from the Bay Area, and others, at the The Bali Purnati Arts Center of inland Bali, Indonesia. We visited temples, attended numerous
musical and dance performances, participated in cross-cultural poetry and
arts events with students and pilgrims, all the while experiencing the great
hearts of the Balinese people, their arts, rituals and spiritual practices.
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Young’s poem Yesterday I Was So Sad, is
included in this collection, 100
American Poets Against the war: A Protest Anthology. For more information on this book, see
the website www.metropolitanartspress.com/literature.html. Also, included are poems by Two
Boots’ Poetry partner, Thomas R. Smith, Robert Bly,
Jane Hirschfield, Ray Gonzalez, Richard Broderick, Naomi Shihab
Nye, Galway Kinnell, Myra Shapiro, and many of America’s
finest poets. Press Two Boots Poems page (above) for complete lists of poets.
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100
AMERICAN POETS AGAINST THE WAR
A PROTEST ANTHOLOGY
Edited, Selected, and Introducted by Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine
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Over
100 of the most important literary figures in The United States join together
in this protest against the Iraqi War and the Bush Administration.
The
Writer's Almanac for May 16, 2005
Garrison Keillor chose this poem for May 16th
Poem: "Not Naked on the
Bed" by Timothy Young from Building in Deeper Water © The
Thousand Press.
Not Naked on the Bed
Your beauty, nude
not naked on the bed,
is far more a gift
than I ever expected.
I watch languor recline
in your wise grey eyes
while slate hummingbirds
carved as earrings
dangle from golden hooks.
I quiver in your breath
and the ceiling fan halts
in that instant.
We look at one another
with both eyes open and close.
An intimate wind,
the cause of auroras,
moves north and south,
east and west,
then we swim
into one another.
The
Writer's Almanac for May 15, 2005
Garrison Keillor chose this poem for May 15th,
Poem: "We
Collect Gull Feathers" by Timothy Young from Building in Deeper Water
© The Thousands Press.
We Collect Gull Feathers
As the evening dies over Pepin,
we collect gull feathers, black and white ones,
and pretend they were dropped by the eagle
whose track and wing marked
the gray Mississippi
sandbar.
Jesse remarked as we arrived,
"If I point at hawks they fly away,
but if I don't they stay in their trees."
The river moves heavily, south,
and the sun drops beyond the bluffs.
The air chills me.
I want to keep my fingers in my pocket,
because everything moves on here,
except that sweet pain of love that knows
he's growing up to leave me.
Timothy Young’s poem “The Thread of
Sunlight” from his book, Building in Deeper Water,
(published by The Thousands Press, 2003) and included in Best American Poems
of 1999, published by Scribners, has been selected
for inclusion in the third edition of Houghton-Mifflin Company’s
college textbook, Reading and Writing
for Literature. This
anthology is edited by John E. Schwiebert of Weber
State University
Timothy’s essay “I Love The Single Deer
Path” has been included in a collection of essays ECO-MAN, New
Perspectives on Masculinity and Nature, Edited by Mark Allister
and published by University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville
and London,
2004. This biographical essay relates how a young poet, whose family
traditions value hunting, gives up hunting only to return to the hunt when
his son is born and he is introduced to traditional tribal hunting values.
Timothy’s essay on the poetry of the Spanish poet,
Juan Ramon Jimenez, has been published at Pemmican, the on-line poetry
magazine, published by Robert Edwards.
See www.pemmicanpress.com.
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