Author Archives: ROMPoetry

Episode 155: Shake Your Catoosa is a bit about Route 66 attractions and the upcoming poetry exhibit Rhyming on Route 66 and is also about just getting out there and being amongst people, especially people you are not used to. Get out there and shake your catoosa and be alive while you’re living your life.

Episode 154: Call Me Nightmare explores 4 impromptu poems written by attendees of PopCon Indy in Indianapolis this June 2025. Your co-hosts Shaun and Bill revel in the imagery despite the brain fog of trying to learn how to line dance the night before. Trust us, it will all make sense when you listen. AndContinue reading “Episode 154: Call Me Nightmare”

Episode 153: Dig a Hole entertains you with the mellifluous sounds of Woody Guthrie, whose birthday on July 14 is celebrated each year at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in Okemah, Oklahoma. Yes, mellifluous, and also rebellious and truth-telling. Herein are some songs and poems and all manner of talk about digging a hole forContinue reading “Episode 153: Dig a Hole”

Episode 152: Wildness Tonic gets wild with musings about the museum’s upcoming book club on nature themes inspired by Henry David Thoreau, among others. Sandy Burford, local naturalist and volunteer extraordinaire, joins us as we discuss kleptotrichy, utility company tree maintenance, the speed of the telegraph, and actual poetry. We get wild. It is wild.Continue reading “Episode 152: Down this Wildness Tonic”

Episode 148: Thunderbird Inspiration begins with an art piece by Roxann Yates in our new Dear Cryptid exhibit, which inspired a poem by a recent visitor, Mandee Chapman Roash. The episode goes into the poetry of place, the specificity that leads to authenticity, and how poetry can save the world. For real.

Episode 147: Is That a Poem in Your Pocket is about Poem in Your Pocket Day and so much more. We discuss binary thinking, haiku, the cathartic nature of poetry therapy (“let it bleed”), and so much more. A few jokes. A new way of looking at poetry.

Episode 146: The Body Song of Spring is our 2025 spring episode with poetry, jokes, line completion challenges, and a lot of wonderful info. about the season–all packed into a 30-minutish time of endless original loveliness. We do not exaggerate or kid. Well, not right at the moment anyway.