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”
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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”
Episode 88: Summertime Tootsie Wootsie
Episode 87: Round Barn
Episode 87: Round Barn is about a red round barn, a rondelet or two, singing pigs, electrical outages, the Nelson brothers and guzzling things. Just go with it, folks.
Episode 86: Totally Poetry Tulsa
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 83: She Seen Gunholes
Episode 81: Plague Doctor Rat Taxidermy
Episode 81: Plague Doctor Rat Taxidermy is precisely what it sounds like, a foray into the world of taxidermy, well, sort of, and literary taxidermy, cool plague doctor rats and all things stuffed or stuffing. ALSO, be sure to enter the Literary Taxidermy Contest and win a free WPL t-shirt! Enjoy! Taxidermy by Down SouthContinue reading “Episode 81: Plague Doctor Rat Taxidermy”
Episode 80: War Monster
Episode 80: War Monster steps back to let the Poppy Lady speak. She stands in the museum in the theme area about WAR. Write your war experience haunting you on a red poppy card and offer it to her. We read some of the offerings.