Wacky Poem Life

Episode 20: Moonrise Story

Episode 20: Moonrise Story describes a block assemblage poem, bursting balloons, grandma’s lilacs and scent memories of Mennen and Hai Karate!

Episode 19: Ties Break

Episode 19: Ties Break concerns ponderations on the mutability and stability, the integrity and authenticity of human life on this great planet of ours, and there are also a few jokes.

Episode 18: Climb a Giant

Episode 18: Climb a Giant explores a magnetic poetry poem with large and lovely archetypes that brings up images and memories of childhood fables and musings on the moon with Fe Fi Fo Fum and Phooey.

Episode 17: Still Learning

Episode 17: Still Learning discusses a "strikeout poem" that was written for the 19th amendment centennial exhibit at ROMP. It's a lovefest of the ladies for 35 minutes. Enjoy.

Episode 16: Crocodile Couplets

Episode 16: Crocodile Couplets allows us to discuss couplets left as a sacrifice to Cora the Crocodile, whose domain included the treehouse at the first poetry museum site. Also, there's some Valentine's Day stuff.

Cannibal Lampshades

Episode 15: Cannibal Lampshades explores the inevitability of lampshades either taking over the world or becoming extinct. Only time will tell.

Episode 14: Get Your Hat

Episode 14: Get Your Hat takes us into a lovely summer poem in the middle of winter that is about going places and wearing hats and hysterical women in hats, etc.

Episode 13: Blues Tune

Episode 13: Blues Tune gets down to brass tacks involving Perry Mason mysteries, Langston Hughes poems and needing an answer–not an explanation!

Episode 12: Rest Your Neck

Episode 12: Rest Your Neck delivers a zen-like poem found in the museum's medicine cabinet, and Bill has a big reveal, and we sing and recite Old English and stuff.

Episode 11: Dream Big

Episode 11: Dream Big starts with anger at an old song and detours into ideas of home and dreams and back to the anger at the old song and also something about tickling cheese.