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Episode 171: Pocket Poems 2026
Episode 171: Pocket Poems 2026 is about Poem in Your Pocket Day, where people are encouraged to carry a poem in their pocket all day and share it with others. Two folks shared their poems with us,…
Episode 170: Turtle Kingdom
Episode 170: Turtle Kingdom is about Earth Day and turtles, hugging trees, listening to birds, dancing on the earth, carrying your world on your back–all these beautiful things. Let’s be engaged in…
Episode 169: Boy Poet from Corn
Episode 169: The Boy Poet from Corn reveals a Grand Prize Co-Winner in the Oklahoma Poem Contest. Third Grader and Corn OK resident Luke Thiessen wrote a prize-winning poem about Oklahoma's state…
Episode 168: Spring Pez, Pickles & Poetry
Episode 168: Spring Pez, Pickles & Poetry provides you with lovely spring poems and lowly spring items from the dollar store, plus a Spring "Scented Fun Dough" challenge that Bill, of course,…
Episode 167: Homo-Hetero-Homo-Hetero
Episode 167: Homo-Hetero-Homo-Hetero is not what you think. We discuss a poem by Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa and discuss his heteronyms, which then led us into a discussion of homonyms,…
Episode 166: Whip Me with a Goat Hide
Episode 166: Whip Me with a Goat’s Hide. We don’t mean to be blunt, but Valentine’s Day had some bloody and violent origins. Don’t blame us. It’s those pesky Romans. Anyway, join Shaun and Bill for…
Episode 165: Pinnacle of Tack
Episode 165: The Pinnacle of Tack takes you back to Route 66 fodder–prize-winning poems in the Rhyming & ROMPing on Route 66 poetry contest, and a potpourri of off-topic subjects, like only Shaun…
Bonus Episode: Maiden Voyage
This Maiden Voyage is a reissue of our very first episode from 2021 where we talked about dog farts and poetry. Enjoy.
Episode 164: Haiku Tonic
Episode 164: Haiku Tonic delivers some thoughts and feelings about one of our most popular poetic forms--the haiku. Writing a haiku can be a tonic for the heart and soul. Take the Haiku Tonic…
Episode 163: Repeat After Me
Episode 163: Repeat After Me begins with a 7-year-old's poem that makes great use of repetition, one of the finest tools of the poet. Then, we diverge into conversations about what a poem is, why…
Burma Shave Roadside Bait
Episode 162: Burma Shave Roadside Bait is a light episode of little ditties from back in the day and today, as we celebrate the roadside sign verse from the Burma Shave company. In the Rural Oklahoma…
Episode 161: Heifers Get Into Everything
Episode 161: Heifers Get Into Everything may not seem to have anything to do with the poem inspiring this episode, but that is just the way with life, isn’t it? You never know how one trail leads…
Episode 160: Things That Frighten You
Episode 160: In this our 4th anniversary episode, Things That Frighten You, we begin with a dark poem and conversation about what makes a poem scary. It 's not all werewolves and vampires and haunted…
Episode 159: Unshackled from Cash
Episode 159: Unshackled from Cash: The Immersive Experience of Live Performance brings you musings and profundity (of a sort) as we discuss poetry readings, live theater, and live performances, in…
Episode 158: Sing to the Sky, Tom Henry
Episode 158: In this episode, we are joined by local musician extraordinaire Tom Henry who told us stories and sang poetic songs. He sang, “I’m just not with it. I just don’t get it.” And we don’t…
Episode 157: Tom Holland is Not Squalid
Episode 157: Tom Holland is Not Squalid covers 10 vocabulary words, a host of short and diabolically pithy poems, and Shaun having allergy sneezes, while Bill attempts to keep his papers dry and…
Episode 156: Wishes and Eyeore
Episode 156: Wishes and Eyeore is a poetic discussion of wishes and the desire for and the striving for. A "wish" is not a naïve thing. It is a necessary thing, an adult thing, a beautiful thing,…
Episode 155: Shake Your Catoosa
Episode 155: Shake Your Catoosa is a bit about Route 66 attractions and the upcoming poetry exhibit Rhyming on Route 66 and is also about just getting out there and being amongst people, especially…
Episode 154: Call Me Nightmare
Episode 154: Call Me Nightmare explores 4 impromptu poems written by attendees of PopCon Indy in Indianapolis this June 2025. Your co-hosts Shaun and Bill revel in the imagery despite the brain fog…
Episode 153: Dig a Hole
Episode 153: Dig a Hole entertains you with the mellifluous sounds of Woody Guthrie, whose birthday on July 14 is celebrated each year at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in Okemah, Oklahoma. Yes,…
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Wacky Poem Life has published 100 episodes since March 2023, covering topics in Arts.
Wacky Poem Life is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 34m.
