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 polk greens, too.

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 his new podcast and plays along impeccably with us.

Episode 88: Summertime Tootsie Wootsie

Episode 88: Summertime is exactly what it sounds like–all things poetic, muddy and salty within the purview of summertime. What is your summer song? What is your summer self? Find it in this episode, while we walk with our tootsie wootsie in the good ole summertime.

Episode 86: Totally Poetry Tulsa

Photo from Facebook page: Poetic Pieces of Phetote Mshairi

Episode 86: Totally Poetry Tulsa is our second episode with special guest Zhenya Yevtushenko, who talks with us about poets and poetry happenings in Tulsa, just a short lovely drive from our podcast home. He also shares some of his wonderful poetry with us.

Episode 85: Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Episode 85 boasts a special guest, Zhenya Yevtushenko, the great poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s son, who talks about his dad, reads his poetry, and discusses his  legacy. and his life in Tulsa and points beyond.  The opening music snippet is from Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13 based on Yevtushenko’s poem “Babi Yar,” with Oleg Tsibulko conducting the Russian National Orchestra.

Episode 84: Off the Beaten Path

Episode 84: Off the Beaten Path explores the most misunderstood poem in the world, diverges into misunderstood song lyrics, and includes a multitude of poetic ways of seeing what a “path” is and which one you are on. There’s a little bit of wacky to satisfy the “wacky” in our name, of course.

Episode 83: She Seen Gunholes

Episode 83: She Seen Gunholes takes us into the wacky world of incident calls reported in our local paper in the POLICE BLOTTER column. Of necessity, the entries are heavy on nouns and verbs and guess what else is . . . poetry. We have found our calling.