orphans of silence

Episode 7 – Public Domain Edition

[https://orphansofsilence.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/whaaaaat.jpg?w=450]https://orphansofsilence.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/whaaaaat.jpgWell! I finally managed to slap an episode together for this week, so needless to say there won’t be one posted on Sunday. Which is just as well, since I’ll be watching the Red Sox beat the Orioles into paste (I say this as a demoralized Orioles fan) on Sunday anyway. I really wish I’d thought to bring my recorder to what turned out to be a very fun Reading in the Round last night, but c’est la vie. Anyway, I cribbed everything in this episode from Librivox, which has a very nice collection of short poetry [http://librivox.org/short-poetry-collection-028/] and a stable of readers who don’t sound like Chris Rock’s impression of white people. Go team! By the way, try a Youtube search for “news bloopers” sometime. Holy crap. The sample in this episode is only the tip of a hilarious, unprofessional iceberg. Download OOSep7 and maybe this crazy woman won’t haunt your dreams forever! [http://www.archive.org/download/OrphansOfSilenceEp.7/OOS7.mp3] the clod and the pebble – written by w. blake/read by leon mire by the arno – written by oscar wilde/read by joe brenneman futility – written by w. owen/read by caroline foty when i heard the learned astronomer – written by w. whitman/read by alan davis-drake egotist – written by ambrose bierce/read by lee ann howlett

A Very Special Episode 6

[https://orphansofsilence.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/oos6.jpg?w=450]https://orphansofsilence.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/oos6.jpgSo for this episode, I did some stealth recording at an open mic in Annapolis and captured, among other things, the complete set of one of the evening’s featured poets. So in that spirit, Rachel Lucke gets the entire episode to herself. Isn’t that nice? She’s really good, and the last two poems (written in the characters of Picasso painting Gertrude Stein and Lot’s wife) are particularly good. Past OOS contributor Angela Horner was another featured poet that evening, and she was awesome too. Download #6 to your computerbox! [http://www.archive.org/download/OrphansOfSilenceEp.6/OOSep6.mp3] I need to include a Submissions tab to this thing, which I’ll do at some point today or tomorrow, because summer makes people more difficult to pin down and record for some reason. Yes, I know how creepy that sounds, just go with it.

Episode Fi(ve)nally!

[https://orphansofsilence.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/blog_skull_throne.jpg?w=450]https://orphansofsilence.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/blog_skull_throne.jpg Oof, that’s a clunky headline. But do forgive me – I thought I’d never get this thing together. It’s a good episode though, and the musical interludes come courtesy of 1994!, specifically the song “New Holland 1995.” It’s great. They’re great. Since we all know what my excuses for being late are, I’ll skip over reiterating them and just let you folks get to listening. Hopefully my schedule will realign in time for next weekend’s update – I’ll be in Pennsylvania that weekend, so I’ll officially be taking this thing on the road! Whoooo! …I’m easily excited. Download Ep. 5 here! [http://www.archive.org/download/OrphansOfSilenceEp.5/OOS5.mp3] sleeping on trains – written/read by aliza ess like brandy in our milk – written/read by lindsey wittstruck we keep on driving – written/read by meredith purvis urgency of now – written/read by daniel aluma* saturdays – written/read by angelus* *recordings taken from archive.org

Episode 4: Long Poem Titles!

[https://orphansofsilence.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/francesca_le-the_bigger_the_better-kingdong-muffia-01.jpg?w=450]https://orphansofsilence.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/francesca_le-the_bigger_the_better-kingdong-muffia-01.jpgHappy Sunday! As promised, there’s a new episode waiting to be downloaded. If it were a puppy, it’d be jumping up and down in the bin, begging you to adopt it. Don’t you dare look away, you monster. Anyway, this episode was really fun to put together – the heavy metal show and Star Wars poems will probably get me barred from Literature forever, but the poignant Hiroshima poem at the end balances things out, I think. Plus, there’s no rule against me having fun with this. OOSep4 also introduces someone I’ve never met before – Ming Wen is a JHU student who I found reading his work on Friday, and I recorded him while hipsters gathered chairs and PA equipment all around us. Fun times were had. Julie is also a JHU student, just so you know. Download it! Don’t you make that puppy cry! [http://ia331226.us.archive.org/3/items/OrphansOfSilenceEp.4/OOS4.mp3] proving more true than those with more cunning to be strange – written/read by salimah j. perkins executive – written/read by ming wen spell to commemorate one of the best nights of my life – written/read by julie depasquale stormtrooper poetry #18 – written/read by fiddleback* i come and stand at every door – written by nazim hikmet/read by hema manicka* *recordings taken from Archive.org