Author Archives: ROMPoetry

Episode 145: Every Mother is a Wendigo begins with a stellar impromptu cryptid poem left in the museum last weekend. Monster talk and hifalutin stuff also ensues. Simply another of the best half-hours of podcasting anywhere. Humility is overrated.

Episode 141: Poetry From Your Face Out Loud! This episode details the recent Poetry Out Loud recitation competition at ROMP, the high school contestants and the poems, the reasons for reciting, and more. Some cryptid stuff, too, of course!

Episode 140: The Way is about “Do,” the belief in “the way of,” the path,” the “road” or “passage” that one takes in order to live a full life, to learn, to be skilled and enthusiastic in a discipline. We try to be good at it, and we fail, and we just keep working atContinue reading “Episode 140: The Way”

Episode 139: White Leg in the Water is about ekphrastic poetry, about murals and our mural artist and podcast co-host Bill Guthrie’s work on the museum mural, about how we don’t notice a lovely man falling from the sky into the water, how art seeks poetry and poetry seeks art and about . . .Continue reading “Episode 139: White Leg in the Water”

Episode 137: Poems in an Encyclopedia covers, well folks, it covers a heck of a lot in its 30-minutish time frame. We kid you not. There is a wealth of nonsense and learning in this thing: word origins, science, the purpose of poetry, black holes, Chuck Norris, teachers with apple blossoms, shy folks, magic. IContinue reading “Episode 137: Poems in an Encyclopedia”