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Episode 75: Oklahoma Bookshelf

Episode 75: Oklahoma Bookshelf delves into a imagery-filled Oklahoma found poem by a local writer and podcast fan and includes numerous bad Chuck Norris jokes and Bill’s attempts to deflect Shaun from continuing to make them. Also, some great poems by some Oklahoma poets now on display in the oklaPOEThoma exhibit in the museum.

Episode 74: Trash and Treasure

Episode 74: Trash and Treasure is about precisely that, or more imprecisely, about women and how you can’t put them on a pedestal, nor can you bury them under it. Can we just learn how to be decent human beings? No. Okay . . . well, let’s just read some poems and tell trashy jokesContinue reading “Episode 74: Trash and Treasure”

Episode 73: Stalked and Branded

Episode 72: Poet as Stalker

Episode 71: Agent Hunger and the Flaming Ducks

Episode 70: Love Is . . .

Episode 69: Rhianna is Pregnant

Episode 69: Rhianna is Pregnant is perhaps not about Rhianna, but you will just have to listen to find out. You may discover it’s about the poetic things that people have left in the world for others to see . . . or perhaps not see. Or maybe it’s about the little known news thatContinue reading “Episode 69: Rhianna is Pregnant”

Episode 68: It’s the Real Thing

Episode 67: Lady Gaga Scarecrow

Episode 67: Lady Gaga Scarecrow is actually about scarecrows, which we dare to discuss in winter, as this poem left in the museum pissed off Shaun but then it was all right and then, it becomes a pretty good poem or “pome,” as the case may be. Bill reads it 3 or 4 times. WeContinue reading “Episode 67: Lady Gaga Scarecrow”

Episode 66: Murder Poets

Episode 66: Murder Poets is really only about one murdering poet, but it’s also about a poet writing about that murdering poet and . . . also Barbie and Ken. In all seriousness, we celebrate the winning poem from our Okie Outlaw Poem Contest, which Bill McCloud wrote: a lovely lyric about Bonnie Parker, herselfContinue reading “Episode 66: Murder Poets”