8K
Downloads
148
Episodes
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!
Episodes
Friday Dec 02, 2022
Friday Dec 02, 2022
Episode 58: Antique Doll is about dolls. And Ukraine. And candles in the window. Tickle Me Elmo jokes. Dolls vs Action Figures. It’s about all of these things and more. It’s about life. And poetry. . . . And stuff like that.
Saturday Nov 26, 2022
Saturday Nov 26, 2022
Episode 57: Sibling Situations dives into the sibling battles and joys and times your sister tied a bully to the tree or locked the other sisters in the cellar. Oh, not your experience? Well, enjoy these sibling poems and situations vicariously then!
Saturday Nov 19, 2022
Saturday Nov 19, 2022
Episode 56: Mushroom Message relays the messages and dream interpretations one might associate with that friendly fungus, the mushroom. Shroom, shroom, shroom. Someone left us a great mushroom poem in the museum, so here we go.......Opening music from Walter Jahn's YouTube channel.
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Episode 55: Poems in Movies is not a regular Wacky Poem Life episode, as Shaun flies solo and talks about a trio of movies in which poems play some sort of role. It’s a bit rough, a bit philosophical, a bit personal and doesn’t really go anywhere . . . but maybe you’ll like it anyway!
Friday Nov 04, 2022
Friday Nov 04, 2022
Episode 54: Crawl Outside encourages you to do so, especially if it’s out a window, especially if it might be uncomfortable and you might land in the Rose of Sharon bushes and then have to go get a massage. Opportunity waits out there, so says our poet of the week, so says Oklahoma’s favorite son Will Rogers, whose birthday is the day this podcast was recorded, November 4. Crawl outside, crawl into this episode, which begins with a recording from Rogers himself.
Friday Oct 28, 2022
Friday Oct 28, 2022
Episode 53: Halloween Teeth covers a delightfully ghoulish Dark & Scary poem contest winner that has us theorizing about odontophobia and philia and macabre thoughts of the season, along with a particularly distasteful Poetry Court poem.
Friday Oct 21, 2022
Friday Oct 21, 2022
Episode 52 marks 52 weeks of Wacky Poem Life. For this 1st anniversary show, we went live on Facebook and took an hour to talk a bunch of nonsense about rabid coons, squatters, Beowulf, Bill’s tattooed fingers and . . . oh yeah, our theme: What is Poetry? Please to enjoy.
Friday Oct 14, 2022
Friday Oct 14, 2022
Episode 51: Two Heads is about two heads. Two heads speak to us. We are two heads. Two heads are better than one. You get the picture. Head on over this way and listen!
Friday Oct 07, 2022
Friday Oct 07, 2022
Episode 50: Darkness Descends describes how one can almost get lost in depression and darkness, but light can shine through with pinpricks that grow and enlarge, as hope does. Poetry Court takes on an Instagram poem with both prosecution and defense equally prepared! Cast your vote at https://wackypoemlife.com/2022/10/07/episode-50-darkness-descends/
Friday Sep 30, 2022
Friday Sep 30, 2022
Episode 49: Slightly Used has Shaun and Bill reminiscing about dust and the patination of all things over time, including the skin off Shaun's arm. Weigh in on Poetry Court in the comments at https://wackypoemlife.com/2022/09/30/episode-49-slightly-used/ to tell us who won--prosecution or defense!