Author Archives: ROMPoetry
Episode 96: To Ramble About Plundering
Episode 96: To Ramble About Plundering includes discussion of one of the best poems we have received at the museum in quite some time. Check out Holly Van Auken’s “In Its Time” and then tolerate Bill and Shaun getting into aesthetics, strip malls, Barbie jokes and more.
Episode 95: Barbie’s Accumulating Emergencies
Episode 95: Barbie’s Accumulating Emergencies borrows a phrase from Adrienne Rich, invites a Barbie Manifesto, discusses creativity in the young and rhapsodizes on the importance of creativity and nurturing the fragile growing mind. Yes, we did all that in 30 minutes. Listen and find out.
Episode 94: Picnicking with the Dead
Episode 93: Tunnels I Have Known
Episode 92: WWBD
Episode 92: WWBD delves into the quandary of What Would Burt Do, meaning, in terms of swimming. What would Burt Lancaster of the 1968 film “The Swimmer,” based on the sublime story by John Cheever, do in a situation. Or, in other words, what would a group of folks who gathered to celebrate Yevgeny Yevtushenko’sContinue reading “Episode 92: WWBD”
Episode 91: Flirting with Self-Actualization
Episode 91: Flirting with Self-Actualization is about travel and maps, floorplans, blueprints and the poetry within all of that mess. It sounds hifalutin’ but it’s just our usual nonsense, profound, but nonsense nonetheless. Enjoy!
Episode 90: One-Cylinder Guitar Picker
Episode 90: One Cylinder Guitar Picker is about Woody Guthrie, the Poet of the People, from Okemah, Oklahoma, whose birthday is July 14. We discuss songwriters who are poets and poets who are poets and Bill masterfully completes some WG quotes, and there’s only a tad bit of profanity. Lots of crickets though. Some polkContinue reading “Episode 90: One-Cylinder Guitar Picker”
Episode 89: Yelling Expletives For Over An Hour Continuously
Episode 89: Yelling Expletives For Over an Hour Continuously takes us back to the Police Blotter in our county paper and a trip through memories, poetry, crime, stolen grills and a quarrel about numbers at Cooper’s Bridge. ALSO: Special guest Robert Reid from OETA, the man behind Gallery America, talks about the show and hisContinue reading “Episode 89: Yelling Expletives For Over An Hour Continuously”
Wacky Poem Life 