Poem Life

Shaun Perkins

POEM LIFE is a podcast detailing the origins of a life in poetry that does not require you love poetry, or even like it, to enjoy.

Episodes

  1. 04/07/2020

    Episode 12: Naming the Gaudy Neighbor

    This episode explores the concept of naming and how part of the poet's job is to name things accurately and part of growing up involves living with or choosing the name that suits us.

  2. 03/28/2020

    Episode 11: The Play is the Thing

    This episode describes the connection between plays and poetry and how the two connect in the life of a budding poet.

  3. 03/22/2020

    Episode 10: Running Away

    This episode explores a theme of many young adult novels, running away, and how this theme also relates to growing up, both ideas of major importance in the life of a young poet.

  4. 03/19/2020

    Episode 9: Young Romance

    This episode describes romance comic books of the 1970's and the possible influence of the genre in the poetry of teenage girls.

  5. 03/17/2020

    Episode 8: Moving Backward

    This episode explores the function of the typewriter and publishing format in the development of a poet, who is seeking to connect but is moving backward.

  6. 03/02/2020

    Episode 7: Notes on Poetic Memory

    This episode describes how childhood events become or do not become poetry and also ponders the nature of memory's influence on our writing.

  7. 02/24/2020

    Episode 6: The Longing for Ruin

    This episode explains how the stuff of good poetry does not come naturally or biologically to us as children but a longing for ruin does.

  8. 02/19/2020

    Episode 5: Library Blocks & Heart Stones

    This episode explores the theme of abandonment in our actual lives and in literature and the interplay between the two that can create poetry.

  9. 02/16/2020

    Episode 4: Ghosts in Autograph Books

    This episode explores the phenomenon of autograph books and junior high note writing and the lives and the poetry that emerge from them.

  10. 02/13/2020

    Episode 3: Strong Girls and Young Years

    This episode describes two books that introduced the poet to a world of the imagination where both passive ladies and strong girls lived.

  11. 02/11/2020

    Episode 2: Snake Creek & Story Trail Origins

    This episode details the places and other influences that shape the beginnings of a life in poetry.

  12. 02/10/2020

    Episode 1: Introduction

    In this first episode of POEM LIFE, Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry founder/director Shaun Perkins introduces her forensic study of a life in poetry. Why do people begin writing poetry? Why did she?

  • 12 Episodes

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POEM LIFE is a podcast detailing the origins of a life in poetry that does not require you love poetry, or even like it, to enjoy.

Information

  • Creator
    Shaun Perkins
  • Years Active
    2020
  • Episodes
    12
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2020 Shaun Perkins. All rights reserved.
  • Show Website
    Poem Life