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Episode 127: Prediction Machines, Bigfoot & a Hip Campus

Episode 127: Prediction Machines, Bigfoot & a Hip Campus discusses the brain, the mind, memory and perception and a bunch of things that have to do with our noggins. Oh, and some Emily Dickinson in there, of course. Bill and Shaun are joined by Bill’s great-nephew Evan, who is very good at cutting through theContinue reading “Episode 127: Prediction Machines, Bigfoot & a Hip Campus”

Episode 126: Down the Dirt Roads

Episode 126: Down the Dirt Roads is a different kind of WPL episode, as Bill is out of town, and Shaun welcomes Faith Phillips, author of a book that will be the first one in the poetry museum’s fall CRIME, SHE SAID book club. We discuss growing up and walking down the dirt roads inContinue reading “Episode 126: Down the Dirt Roads”

Episode 125: Swept Away in a Sweeping Sweep

Episode 125: Swept Away in a Sweeping Sweep takes you on a journey through three poems recently left in the museum. Discussions about the muses, the sport of curling, line graphs, and more ensure.

Episode 124: The Cryptids are Coming!

Episode 124: The Cryptids are Coming! Rot-ro! It’s true, Scooby Doo, the 2025 exhibit at the Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry will be about cryptids, the hidden creatures of our imagination, folklore . . . and occasionally, real life! Shaun and Bill discuss Bigfoot, Chuck Norris (not a cryptid . . . or . .Continue reading “Episode 124: The Cryptids are Coming!”

Episode 123: On Not Vegetating in an Earth Corner

Episode 122: Closets I Have Known

Episode 122: Closets I Have Known is certainly about closets. Would we steer you wrong? Sweep you away? Lock you in? It’s also about brooms and witches. And brooms. Sweep. Sweep. Sweep. Poetry and bad jokes, of course, abound.

Episode 121: Responding to Advice with Horse

Episode 120: Magical Petri Dish

Episode 119: The Mystery of the Second Person

Episode 118: Cardi B Poetry

Episode 118: Cardi B Poetry isn’t about her, but it’s a shameless attempt to get people to this website to listen to 30-frickin’ minutes of high-class entertainment about cards, not WAP. Yep, you read that right: CARDS. GREETING CARDS. It’s something people used to do. And verse ensued and some poetry, too . . .Continue reading “Episode 118: Cardi B Poetry”