100 episodes
Wacky Poem Life Shaun Perkins
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Wacky Poem Life is a 30-minutish comedy podcast that is also about a poem left in the Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry by an unsuspecting person. Bill Guthrie and Shaun Perkins entertain with a bit of wacky and a bit of poetry and then some more wacky.
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Swept Away in a Sweeping Sweep
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.
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Episode 124: The Cryptids are Coming!
Episode 124: The Cryptids are Coming! Rot-ro! It’s true, Scooby Doo, the 2025 exhibit at the Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry will be about cryptids, the hidden creatures of our imagination, folklore . . . and occasionally, real life! Shaun and Bill discuss Bigfoot, Chuck Norris (not a cryptid . . . or . . . hmm) and more in this episode.
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Episode 123: On Not Vegetating in an Earth Corner
Episode 123: On Not Vegetating in an Earth Corner takes Mark Twain's advice about travel and applies it to . . . traveling! and poetry! and pigs on the beach! and . . . well, just give it a listen!
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Episode 122: Closets I Have Known
Episode 122: Closets I Have Known is certainly about closets. Would we steer you wrong? Sweep you away? Lock you in? It's also about brooms and witches. And brooms. Sweep. Sweep. Sweep. Poetry and bad jokes, of course, abound.
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Episode 121: Responding to Advice with Horse
Shaun & Bill are joined by Gallery America's Robert Reid on a journey through couplets, spells, curses, advice, empty truck beds, limericks, and lots of stuff about barns. Also, we offer you tips on how to handle advice from 3-year-old Kate and her tent sign.
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Episode 120: Magical Petri Dish
Episode 120: Magical Petri Dish steers you headlong into a discussion of community message boards and the poetry and tragedy therein. Get ready to laugh or suffer or both.