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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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4 days ago
Episode 83: She Seen Gunholes
4 days ago
4 days ago
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.

Friday May 19, 2023
Episode 82:Old Bobi the Dog
Friday May 19, 2023
Friday May 19, 2023
Episode 82: Old Bobi the Dog is about the oldest living dog and dogs we have loved, dogs that are suitable for poetry . . . or not. Dogs who hide under trailers. Dogs named Toby Keith. Dogs everywhere. Dog Dog. Arf!

Friday May 12, 2023
Episode 81: Plague Doctor Rat Taxidermy
Friday May 12, 2023
Friday May 12, 2023
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!

Friday May 05, 2023
Episode 80: War Monster
Friday May 05, 2023
Friday May 05, 2023
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.

Friday Apr 28, 2023
Lizards Will Be Running
Friday Apr 28, 2023
Friday Apr 28, 2023
Episode 79: Lizards Will Be Running was originally titled Skinks in May, and it is about skinks and about May and about skinks in May, but it is about so much more, dear listener, so very much more. Enjoy! Opening bird song recorded by Bill Guthrie.

Friday Apr 21, 2023
Episode 78: Reba Has Pockets!
Friday Apr 21, 2023
Friday Apr 21, 2023
Episode 78: Reba has Pockets may or may not mention Reba McEntire, but it is all about pockets, particularly POEM IN YOUR POCKET DAY, and we are quite sure that Reba would stuff a poem in the pocket of one of her pairs of REBA jeans!

Friday Apr 14, 2023
Episode 77: Hunt and Peck
Friday Apr 14, 2023
Friday Apr 14, 2023
Episode 77: Hunt and Peck begins with a wonderful ode to typewriters by Zhenya Yevtushenko and proceeds to give you a bunch of useless information about typewriters. Qwerty Qwerty Qwerty . . . Guffaw! Guffaw! Guffaw!

Tuesday Apr 04, 2023
Episode 76: 76
Tuesday Apr 04, 2023
Tuesday Apr 04, 2023
Episode 76: 76 is not an episode where we couldn't think of a title. It's actually episode #76 about the #76. We have our reasons, both poetic and popular. Then again, we are full of snot and Grenache, too.

Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
Episode 75: Oklahoma Bookshelf
Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
Episode 75: Oklahoma Bookshelf delves into a imagery-filled Oklahoma found poem by a local writer and podcast fan and includes numerous bad Chuck Norris jokes and Bill’s attempts to deflect Shaun from continuing to make them. Also, some great poems by some Oklahoma poets now on display in the oklaPOEThoma exhibit in the museum.

Friday Mar 24, 2023
Episode 74: Trash and Treasure
Friday Mar 24, 2023
Friday Mar 24, 2023
Episode 74: Trash and Treasure is about precisely that, or more imprecisely, about women and how you can't put them on a pedestal, nor can you bury them under it. Can we just learn how to be decent human beings? No. Okay . . . well, let's just read some poems and tell trashy jokes then.