The Ponca Poet's Podcast

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The Ponca Poet's Podcast

The Ponca Poet’s Podcast is an Indigenous storytelling, poetry-reading, hanging-out-and-having-a-good-time podcast. If you wanna kick it by the fire with a long-winded Sundancer, crack up about crazy but true Bigfoot stories, get real in the face of what tried to kill us Native people but couldn’t, or just dive deep into so many beautiful human things that have the medicine power to heal, then this is the place for you.

  1. FEB 4

    Sugarcane

    Have you had a chance to see Julian Brave NoiseCat's documentary Sugarcane yet? It's about the Indian Boarding Schools and was recently nominated for an Academy Award. It's powerful, not easy to watch, but beautiful too. On this episode, I read a poem I wrote the day after I watched Sugarcane, titled 'The Undoing Shame Sonnet,' and then I wade into all of that difficult subject matter that is still tearing through many of our Native people's lives, including my own. Be strong, relatives, and reach out for help when you need to. None of us needs to be alone with happened to us. It's time to tell our stories, be there for each other, and create a way forward that's rooted in healing and hope. "Indigenous people are still dying from residential boarding schools. And still living, despite them." -Julian Brave NoiseCat

    21 min

  2. JAN 28

    In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa

    The Ponca Poet's Podcast is now officially a year old! This podcast remains dedicated to the revolutionary power of Indigenous consciousness and lifeways; to poetry and heartfelt storytelling; to relationships with Bigfoot and little people; to having a good time and carrying prayers for the people just like our ancestors did. Thanks for listening and staying radical, staying magical! On this episode, I share a poem by America's current Poet Laureate Ada Limón titled In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa. It's a wondrous poem to sit with under the moonlight, to take with you to work and keep your soul alive with. And as always, if you'd like to support this labor of love and catch more episodes (and poetry of mine), please check out The Ponca Poet's Podcast Patreon where you can do so for a mere five bucks a month. Thanks, friends, and rock on!!!

    23 min

  3. JAN 8

    Growing Wings in the Middle of the Night

    Happy New Year, all of you super-rad Ponca Poet's Podcast listeners! This podcast, this labor of love, this testament to all that sings in the human spirit, to the unkillable Indigenous Soul inside us all, is now a full year old. Godzilla-sized hooray! Thanks for kicking it by this campfire and making it such a cool and beautiful place! On this episode, we all give each other a hug, delight in blessing the flowing matter of our lives, take in a poem about a Great Blue Heron, and nurture our commitment to this deep, sacred world. Sounds like a good way to start off the New Year, don't you agree? A million miles down, a million miles to go. And dang ain't this journey sweet because we're in it together. Rock on, my relatives, and enjoy!!! * And there are always more episodes of the Ponca Poet's Podcast to be found on my Patreon. Thanks for the support and see you there!!!

    19 min

  4. 11/16/2024

    Those Old Teenage Horror Movie Days...

    The coolest thing is happening in our little town: some folks are here making a horror movie! It’s called The Cycle and is directed by Jordan Downey (The Head Hunter), and stars Deborah Ann Woll of True Blood and Daredevil fame.  In this episode, I read a poem all about my own teenage horror fan dreams, titled ‘That Stack of VHS Tapes,’ and then sing and remember with joy about those times and how much I still love the genre today.  I wondered when this podcast would take a left-turn into horror, and I guess what better occasion than when a cool bonafide horror film is being shot all around the rainy town you call home.  Take a swig from your gargoyle-headed coffee mug, call up your inner teenager, and enjoy!!!

    22 min

  5. 10/21/2024

    Halloween Looms And We Read Poetry!!!

    Have you fully recovered from Indigenous People's Day? Are you all geared up for an all-out Native Halloween that'll truly be one for the ages? This episode of The Ponca Poet's Podcast just might help you with both of these things. In fact, I'm now hearing from the ancestors on the couch beside me, that it most surely will! This episode's featured poem is by Sy Hoahwah (Comanche/Southern Arapahoe) and titled 'Anchor-Screws of Culture.' It's drawn from New Poets of Native Nations, a fantastic Native poetry anthology published just a few years back. Get the fire going in your woodstove, shoo away those ghouls outside your window, and enjoy!!!

    18 min

  6. 09/18/2024

    The Mysterious Will

    Sometimes a story is just too good not to tell. This story, about the mysterious man named Will, is just such a story. It's fun, nostalgic, very essential for everyone to know, a lightweight classic, and possibly not even about what one would think it's about. This goes out to everyone who has a good restaurant story and to all my buddies I used to hang out at Village Inn with back in the day. Grab your favorite beverage and get ready to let the good Indigenous storytelling times roll!!!

    21 min

  7. 08/31/2024

    The 30th Annual Ponca Powwow

    I just got back from attending our 30th Annual Ponca Powwow and am feeling all kinds of fantastic! In this episode, I reflect some on my experience of being back in the homelands, share about my two by-the-tribe, for-the-tribe book projects, and read a poem written about the powwow titled 'Noah.' It's powwow season on the Ponca Poet's Podcast and we're loving up on all-things-Ponca like there's no tomorrow. Bring your regalia and enjoy!!!

    29 min

  8. 07/04/2024

    Nebraska Magic

    Nebraska magic! Checkstand get-downs with rad Midwesterners! Sweet librarians! Ken from Busu and Amitofu! This episode is packed full and has it all! Having just returned from Nebraska, I’m sharing two small stories and one big story about how that home state of mine regularly visits me in the most magical, mind-blowing, and ultimately loving of ways.  Consider this episode one of my contributions to the burgeoning Nebraska podcasting scene, some ancestral corn-powered, wizard celebrating, Plains river nighttime hymn singing for all of my fellow cornhuskers to dig into.  Turn off the junk of the world, tune into some Native storytelling, and enjoy!!!

    30 min
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The Ponca Poet’s Podcast is an Indigenous storytelling, poetry-reading, hanging-out-and-having-a-good-time podcast. If you wanna kick it by the fire with a long-winded Sundancer, crack up about crazy but true Bigfoot stories, get real in the face of what tried to kill us Native people but couldn’t, or just dive deep into so many beautiful human things that have the medicine power to heal, then this is the place for you.

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  • Creator
    Cliff Taylor
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2025
  • Episodes
    14
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Cliff Taylor
  • Show Website
    The Ponca Poet's Podcast

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