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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!
Episodes
Friday May 20, 2022
Friday May 20, 2022
Episode 30: Pepper Martin highlights a 1930’s major league baseball sensation Pepper Martin, whom we learned about from a poem by Glenpool poet Gordon Bryan. Play ball! And poetry! And baseball haiku!
Friday May 13, 2022
Friday May 13, 2022
Episode 29: You are Bare describes a poem with bare bones imagery that asks you to bone up on your knowledge of things that are close to the bone. Sorry, but those are the bare facts, folks.
Saturday May 07, 2022
Saturday May 07, 2022
Episode 28: Serve Darkness takes a black out poem created atop a 19th century lament about the moral state of education but doesn't ask that you, too, "serve darkness."
Friday Apr 29, 2022
Friday Apr 29, 2022
Episode 27: Dissected Words delves into the depths of spaces where words do or do not go and the effect their absence or presence has on us . . . plus, we practice several weak jokes, of course.
Friday Apr 22, 2022
Friday Apr 22, 2022
Episode 26: Shadow Box describes a poem evoking experiences related to objects that bring to mind memories, fading over time. Bonus: Bill and Shaun tell each other bad jokes that neither one gets.
Thursday Apr 14, 2022
Thursday Apr 14, 2022
Episode 25: Mockingbird Song begins with a mockingbird singing in Shaun’s yard and diverges into Charlton Heston screams, new sound board shenanigans and other lovely nonsense.
Friday Apr 08, 2022
Friday Apr 08, 2022
Episode 24: Ukraine Testament describes a postcard the museum received from Ukraine in 2014 and how the poetry and sorrow of it has arrived here in our present times.
Sunday Apr 03, 2022
Sunday Apr 03, 2022
Episode 23: A Secret takes you to the museum's old secret corner where visitors left their secret poems, one of which we share with you.
Friday Mar 25, 2022
Friday Mar 25, 2022
Episode 22: My Rooster defines rooster in poetic and otherworldly terms and Foghorn Leghorn makes several appearances, as do other poetic characters of his ilk.
Friday Mar 18, 2022
Friday Mar 18, 2022
Episode 21: Wild Bergamot describes a poem written from a Firewheel of Fortune card, Shaun’s tummy ache, Bill’s accents and sound effects and a visit with Earl Grey.