Episode 141: Poetry From Your Face Out Loud! This episode details the recent Poetry Out Loud recitation competition at ROMP, the high school contestants and the poems, the reasons for reciting, and more. Some cryptid stuff, too, of course!

Episode 140: The Way is about “Do,” the belief in “the way of,” the path,” the “road” or “passage” that one takes in order to live a full life, to learn, to be skilled and enthusiastic in a discipline. We try to be good at it, and we fail, and we just keep working at it. Lots of stuff about poetry and art and New Year’s visions, too. Enjoy.

Episode 139: White Leg in the Water is about ekphrastic poetry, about murals and our mural artist and podcast co-host Bill Guthrie’s work on the museum mural, about how we don’t notice a lovely man falling from the sky into the water, how art seeks poetry and poetry seeks art and about . . . everything that makes life beautiful and worth living. I kid you not.

Episode 137: Poems in an Encyclopedia covers, well folks, it covers a heck of a lot in its 30-minutish time frame. We kid you not. There is a wealth of nonsense and learning in this thing: word origins, science, the purpose of poetry, black holes, Chuck Norris, teachers with apple blossoms, shy folks, magic. I mean, it’s a cavalcade of chaos and beauty. Just listen. Thank you, to the late Kevin Vaughn for the poetry.