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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 Oct 04, 2024
Episode 134: Uh Oh, UFO
Friday Oct 04, 2024
Friday Oct 04, 2024
Episode 134: Uh Oh, UFO begins with a post-it note poem written and folded into a jewelry box and left in the museum for us all to ponder. "When I was 8"....do you remember when you were 8? Do you know what flies through the skies above us? Let's discover it in poetry and wackily informative conversation.

Thursday Sep 19, 2024
Episode 133: Church Gum
Thursday Sep 19, 2024
Thursday Sep 19, 2024
Episode 133: Church Gum is about precisely that, and nothing more. Church. Gum. Ah . . . just kidding. It's about getting through church and the gum at the bottom of your grandma's purse and prose poems and Chuck Norris and yeah . . . the whole universe of things that matter. How can you resist? Listen.

Friday Sep 06, 2024
Episode 132: I Beg Your Pardon
Friday Sep 06, 2024
Friday Sep 06, 2024
Episode 132: I Beg Your Pardon asks you to consider the rose garden, as Lynn Anderson would so want you to. Well, sort of. Roses and their cliched existence in our history and as symbols in our poetry: That’s what we tackle. Well, sort of. It’s all coming up roses–LISTEN!

Thursday Aug 22, 2024
Episode 131: Anatomy of a Human Book
Thursday Aug 22, 2024
Thursday Aug 22, 2024
Episode 131: Anatomy of a Human Book takes you on a journey into the human as book, anatomy as metaphor, the spine as paper or . . . something else. What is it like to be a book? What kind of innards do you have? What happens when someone steals them? These questions and more are not answered in this podcast. Listen anyway.

Friday Aug 09, 2024
Episode 130: Cats Don't Have Our Tongue
Friday Aug 09, 2024
Friday Aug 09, 2024
Episode 130: Cats Don’t Have Our Tongue is obvious when you listen as . . . we have a lot to say about cats and deliver a CATastrophic amount of poems about the cats you posted on the WPL Facebook page. Cat-lovers and poetry-lovers everywhere, unite! And . . . please listen.

Friday Jul 26, 2024
Episode 129: Poetry in the Wild
Friday Jul 26, 2024
Friday Jul 26, 2024
Episode 129: Poetry in the Wild begins in a gas station where we ponder the Little Debbie Red Velvet Creme Filled Cakes that we aren't supposed to eat though the alliteration of "Little Debbie can destroy your diet" is very appealing to us, and it ends with a note about tomatoes to Billy that is poetry of the best wild kind. Bunch of other stuff in between, too. LISTEN!

Friday Jul 05, 2024
Episode 128: Poetry at the Post Office & Vet Clinic
Friday Jul 05, 2024
Friday Jul 05, 2024
Episode 128: Poetry at the Post Office & Vet Clinic includes post-Independence Day thoughts that have us traveling to both a post office and a veterinary clinic. Go figure! Enjoy another 30 minutes of wacky right here!

Thursday Jun 20, 2024
Episode 127: Prediction Machines, Bigfoot & a Hip Campus
Thursday Jun 20, 2024
Thursday Jun 20, 2024
Episode 127: Prediction Machines, Bigfoot & a Hip Campus discusses the brain, the mind, memory and perception and a bunch of things that have to do with our noggins. Oh, and some Emily Dickinson in there, of course. Bill and Shaun are joined by Bill's great-nephew Evan, who is very good at cutting through the nonsense. Brain jokes and sketchy knowledge of a variety of things ensue. NOTE: JW Ocker is the author of The United States of Cryptids, mentioned in the podcast.

Thursday Jun 13, 2024
Episode 126: Down the Dirt Roads
Thursday Jun 13, 2024
Thursday Jun 13, 2024
Episode 126: Down the Dirt Roads is a different WPL episode, as Bill is out of town, and Shaun welcomes Faith Phillips, author of a book that will be the first one in the poetry museum's fall CRIME, SHE SAID book club. We discuss growing up and walking down the dirt roads in Oklahoma and a true crime case here that she wrote the book Now I Lay Me Down about. The book will soon be a multi-episode true crime documentary.

Friday May 31, 2024
Swept Away in a Sweeping Sweep
Friday May 31, 2024
Friday May 31, 2024
Episode 125: Swept Away in a Sweeping Sweep takes you on a journey through three poems recently left in the museum. Discussions about the muses, the sport of curling, line graphs, and more ensure.