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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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Friday Sep 15, 2023
Episode 99: Haiku Hit-Me Stance
Friday Sep 15, 2023
Friday Sep 15, 2023
Episode 99: Haiku Hit-Me Stance takes you on a journey into the world of tai chai, taekwondo, haiku, poetic truths and truths of everyday life. That’s right, dear listeners, this is some heady stuff, short on the wacky this time, but long on the enlightening bliss! Special guest: Master Paul Flaherty.
Friday Sep 08, 2023
Episode 98: The Dude Inside of You
Friday Sep 08, 2023
Friday Sep 08, 2023
Episode 98: The Dude Inside of You is about a dude hand poem left in the museum and much dudeness and macaroni, Yankee Doodles, bad singing, and the eternal ponderings of the universal human encased in skin with meat and skeleton.
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Episode 97: Fruit of the Unenclosed Land
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Thursday Aug 31, 2023
Episode 97: Fruit of the Unenclosed Land is a collage of broken things, with some fruit and goblins thrown in there, plus some anaphora and assonance and other a-words, such as acorns, along with a defense of pockets. Really, does it matter what we say in this description? Thank you to our fans Nora and Verla for the poem suggestion!
Saturday Aug 26, 2023
Episode 96: To Ramble About Plundering
Saturday Aug 26, 2023
Saturday Aug 26, 2023
Episode 96: To Ramble About Plundering includes discussion of one of the best poems we have received at the museum in quite some time. Check out Holly Van Auken’s “In Its Time” and then tolerate Bill and Shaun getting into aesthetics, strip malls, Barbie jokes and more.
Friday Aug 18, 2023
Episode 95: Barbie’s Accumulating Emergencies
Friday Aug 18, 2023
Friday Aug 18, 2023
Episode 95: Barbie's Accumulating Emergencies borrows a phrase from Adrienne Rich, invites a Barbie Manifesto, discusses creativity in the young and rhapsodizes on the importance of creativity and nurturing the fragile growing mind. Yes, we did all that in 30 minutes. Listen and find out.
Friday Aug 11, 2023
Episode 94: Picnicking with the Dead
Friday Aug 11, 2023
Friday Aug 11, 2023
Episode 94: Picnicking with the Dead is about cemeteries and poems about cemeteries and fears of being buried alive. Bad jokes from both Shaun and Bill., the Master of Metaphor who gets his appropriate birthday present. Enjoy!
Friday Aug 04, 2023
Episode 93: Tunnels I Have Known
Friday Aug 04, 2023
Friday Aug 04, 2023
Episode 93: Tunnels I Have Known begins with a perfectly lovely poem written in cursive on blue paper and left on the NATURE wall in the museum and then becomes something about tunnels of love because Shaun can't get over Bruce Springsteen. Bill poses questions he knows the answers to, and more subtle wacky ensues. Enjoy.
Friday Jul 28, 2023
Episode 92: WWBD
Friday Jul 28, 2023
Friday Jul 28, 2023
Episode 92: WWBD delves into the quandary of What Would Burt Do, meaning, in terms of swimming. What would Burt Lancaster of the 1968 film "The Swimmer," based on the sublime story by John Cheever, do in a situation. Or, in other words, what would a group of folks who gathered to celebrate Yevgeny Yevtushenko's birthday in the hamlet of 1,400 people, Locust Grove, Oklahoma, have to say about swimming, inspired by the Yevtushenko poem, as read by Zhenya Yevtushenko, his son? I think that was a question. Listen and find out what the heck all this means!
Wednesday Jul 19, 2023
Episode 91: Flirting with Self-Actualization
Wednesday Jul 19, 2023
Wednesday Jul 19, 2023
Episode 91: Flirting with Self-Actualization is about travel and maps, floorplans, blueprints and the poetry within all of that mess. It sounds hifalutin’ but it’s just our usual nonsense, profound, but nonsense nonetheless. Enjoy!
Friday Jul 14, 2023
Episode 90: One-Cylinder Guitar Picker
Friday Jul 14, 2023
Friday Jul 14, 2023
Episode 90: One Cylinder Guitar Picker is about Woody Guthrie, the Poet of the People, from Okemah, Oklahoma, whose birthday is July 14. We discuss songwriters who are poets and poets who are poets and Bill masterfully completes some WG quotes, and there's only a tad bit of profanity. Lots of crickets though. Some polk greens, too.