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.

Episode 108: Potpourri for $200, Alex

Episode 108: The Case of the Putrid Pot is our first potpourri episode, wherein neither host knows what the other is going to discuss before recording starts. Thus, you will hear about A.E. Houseman, Edwin Way Teale and nature poetry and the case for the poet/Jack the Ripper suspect. A potpourri for the senses!

Episode 107: Casting Spells

Episode 107: The Voluptuous Texture of Spells takes us into Wendy the Good Witch’s Chant Closet at the Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry, where we explore 3 chants left by visitors and also discuss wart spells and brooms and Hecate. All in 30-frickin’ minutes. It’s incredible, really.

Barbie Boxed In

Episode 106: Barbie Boxed In delves into the shadow box art tradition, particularly those created by artist and podcast co-host Bill Guthrie for the Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry’s current exhibit Her Kind: The Witch in History, Popular Culture & Poetry. We chant about ekphrastic poetry and Barbie dolls, sailors and avatars and so much more. Please to enjoy.

Episode 105: Queen of Mystery & Magic

Artwork of Marie Laveau by Alysha Little

Episode 105: Queen of Mystery & Magic allows us to escape to New Orleans for a time to explore the poetry surrounding Marie Laveau, the Voodoo Queen, who lived a life unlike many popular stories about her have led us to believe.