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 . . . sometimes, not too often . . . but here and there.

Episode 117: What the Nose Knows

Episode 117: What the Nose Knows explores the olfactory element of our lives, as it is found in poetry and in the wild and perhaps in wild poetry. We have a variety of smell tests, some bad couplets, and a few wonderful poems by Crystal Wilkinson, William Carlos Williams, and Emily Dickinson. Follow your nose and let your ears enjoy this 1/2 hour of nasal knowing.

Episode 116: Bony Sodden Hulk

Episode 116: Bony Sodden Hulk features your favorite February furry creature, the groundhog, just in time for Groundhog Day. No, he’s not a bony sodden hulk . . . well, not yet anyway. We’ll all be there someday. Please to enjoy this entry with groundhog poems and lore and a wonderful impromptu limerick from Bill!

Poetry Out Loud & Zesty

Episode 114: Poetry Out Loud & Zesty takes you into the world of poetry memorization and recitation, but wait, don’t run away . . . It’s an entertaining episode, too, wherein Shaun cracks Bill up and vice versa and the sublime and the ridiculous interact, as is the way that life is supposed to work after all.

113: Boldly Fruity Acts of Barbarism

Episode 113: Boldly Fruity is a potpourri episode where hosts Bill and Shaun walk in not knowing what the other is going to discuss. A paper bag full of gum, a writer’s toolkit, various poems and barbarism ensue.

112: Message in a Bottle to Jupiter

Episode 112: Here you shall learn all you would want to know about messages in a bottle, or at least, a lot of cool stuff about them. Throw one in the Crutchfield Relief beside the poetry museum, and we’ll be happy! Sign up with NASA and send your name in a bottle to Jupiter with a poem by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon!

Episode 111: Purrfectly Familiar

Episode 111: Purrrfectly Familiar delves into the concept of the witch’s familiar and the various animals that have served this purpose, or at least, served it in someone’s eyes enough to make the woman A WITCH! Crocodiles, ferrets and hedgehogs are all welcome, along with the traditional cats.

Episode 110: Make Art–Eat Cereal

Episode 110: Make Art–Eat Cereal takes you on a journey to a child’s yard sale art stand to the origins of creativity, into cereal and foxes with tails on fire and creative play as a necessary component of everyone’s lives. All in 30 frickin’ minutes. Be in awe.

Episode 109: Feeding Two Birds with One Scone

Episode 109: Feeding Two Birds with One Scone answers the age-old question of why we ever considered killing them instead. Tune in to hear how the poetry of language shall be ignored to our utter destruction as a civilization. Or just listen to the bad jokes.