Once again, in the steamheat of August: Blagg & O'Brien, two outspoken pagans perpetuating the Word on broadband. There was praise for poet Thom Gunn, stern words from O'Brien favorite Wyndham Lewis and much more.

Hosts Max Blagg and Glenn O'Brien impersonated a studio full of ethereal guests. They began by reconvening a 1959 era panel on modern art and later shared interviews with Pablo Neruda and Jack Kerouac.

Our 13th outing featured sonnets from a diverse array of poets, spotlighting especially William Shakespeare and Ted Berrigan, and including Petrarch, the Earl of Surrey, Paul Violi and John Godfrey.

Bald Ego magazine co-editor Max Blagg goes it alone, in the temporary absence of his "BEO" partner Glenn O'Brien. Blagg forges ahead to share some early influences on his own work, a few Ted Berrigan poems and more.

Poets Max Blagg and Glenn O'Brien, co-founders of the art/literary journal Bald Ego share intimations of mortality while encouraging their guest, sexy-girl painter Duncan Hannah to revert to his closet persona as a short story writer.

Is poetry the proper response to world events? This may be the only place you'll ever find an answer! If you're asking Glenn O'Brien and Max Blagg, the answer must be a 1965 love poem to John Ashbery, from the English poet Lee Harwood.

Max Blagg and Glenn O'Brien take this opportunity to introduce The Cookie Mueller Corner to their program, a recurring segment in which they will read some of the late writer's wonderful stories (Mueller died from AIDS in November, 1989.)

Blagg and O'Brien ought to bottle their version of Christmas, and this dolefully cheerful selection of poetry - from Dylan Thomas and the Druids to Robert Graves to Blagg himself.