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Wacky Poem Life is a 30-minute podcast taped at the Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry. Hosts Bill Guthrie and Shaun Perkins begin with a piece of found poetry someone has left in the museum and go from there with some wacky, then some poetry, then some more wacky. A poetry podcast FOR EVERYONE!
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Episode 150: Populate Your Mind
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Episode 150: Populate Your Mind is about a sad and lovely poem written many years ago and found in a box of auction items. We discuss loneliness and the remedy of populating one's mind with poetry and books and conversation to be at peace with the feeling. Tad bits of wacky ensue, as always.

Thursday May 08, 2025
Episode 149: Trading Skyway for the Highway
Thursday May 08, 2025
Thursday May 08, 2025
Episode 149: Trading Skyway for the Highway is brought to you by a recent visitor to the museum, Michael Jones, who wrote about his own cryptid experience in this wonderful poem. Buzzards and vultures are the topic, and also death, prisons, and keeping poetry alive.

Saturday Apr 26, 2025
Episode 148: Thunderbird Inspiration
Saturday Apr 26, 2025
Saturday Apr 26, 2025
Episode 148: Thunderbird Inspiration begins with an art piece by Roxann Yates in our new Dear Cryptid exhibit, which inspired a poem by a recent visitor, Mandee Chapman Roash. The episode goes into the poetry of place, the specificity that leads to authenticity, and how poetry can save the world. For real.

Thursday Apr 10, 2025
Episode 147: Is That a Poem in Your Pocket?
Thursday Apr 10, 2025
Thursday Apr 10, 2025
Episode 147: Is That a Poem in Your Pocket is about Poem in Your Pocket Day and so much more. We discuss binary thinking, haiku, the cathartic nature of poetry therapy (“let it bleed”), and so much more. A few jokes. A new way of looking at poetry.

Friday Mar 28, 2025
Episode 146: The Body Song of Spring
Friday Mar 28, 2025
Friday Mar 28, 2025
Episode 146: The Body Song of Spring is our 2025 spring episode with poetry, jokes, line completion challenges, and a lot of wonderful info. about the season--all packed into a 30-minutish time of endless original loveliness. We do not exaggerate or kid. Well, not right at the moment anyway.

Tuesday Mar 11, 2025
Episode 145: Every Mother is a Wendigo
Tuesday Mar 11, 2025
Tuesday Mar 11, 2025
Episode 145: Every Mother is a Wendigo begins with a stellar impromptu cryptid poem left in the museum last weekend. Monster talk and hifalutin stuff also ensues. Simply another of the best half-hours of podcasting anywhere. Humility is overrated.

Thursday Feb 27, 2025
Episode 144: Cruisin' with Cryptids
Thursday Feb 27, 2025
Thursday Feb 27, 2025
Episode 144: Cruisin’ with Cryptids continues Bill’s cool poems about cryptids, plus other things about secretive beings and critters in the concrete pond and such. Send us your cryptid poems! Enjoy!

Friday Feb 14, 2025
Episode 143: Cryptid-Cast
Friday Feb 14, 2025
Friday Feb 14, 2025
Episode 143: The Critters of the Cryptid-Cast is an intro episode about the Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry's new exhibit DEAR CRYPTID. Bill reads a series of cryptid-cast poems he has written for this episode. Facts, craziness, poetic loveliness ensue! NOTE: We experienced technical issues at the end of this episode, so it ends abruptly, but we will have a part 2 next time!

Friday Jan 31, 2025
Episode 142: Old Mother Hunt Had a Rough Cut Punt
Friday Jan 31, 2025
Friday Jan 31, 2025
Episode 142: Old Mother Hunt Had a Rough Cut Punt is all about tongue twisters, alliteration, and the ways that the sounds of words allow us to engage, to laugh, and to determine who we are in the whole shape of the universe. We do not exaggerate. Listen up.

Thursday Jan 16, 2025
Episode 141: Poetry From Your Face Out Loud!
Thursday Jan 16, 2025
Thursday Jan 16, 2025
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!