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Wacky Poem Life
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!
Episodes
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A Mad Girl & Boy's Love Song
Episode 182: A Mad Girl & Boy’s Love Song is our 5th anniversary celebration of this podcast Wacky Poem Life. We exchange wood gifts, welcome friends and…
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Fat Bear Poetry Everywhere
Episode 181: Fat Bear Poetry Everywhere shares some Fat Bear poetry but is also about the poetry that we find in places everywhere we go–where we least expect…
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Episode 180: Raggle Taggle Gypsies
Raggle Taggle Gypsies finds Bill and Shaun exploring travel poetry, poems about travel, the poetic qualities of travel, traveling to discover one’s poetic…
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Episode 179: Pigeon Forge Poet
Pigeon Forge Poet, wherein we have a conversation about Dolly Parton, who died August 25, 2026. Our Dolly was a friend to the world, a poet, a songwriter, a…
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Episode 178: Poets Vs Songwriters
Poets Vs Songwriters is really a cool discussion with local musician and songwriter Tom Henry. We talk about his upcoming record "Into the Light" and address…
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Episode 177: Chess Poetry-CheckMatey!
Chess Poetry: CheckMatey! In this episode we discuss the upcoming 2027 ROMP exhibit and art and poetry contests on the theme of chess. We also discuss the heat…
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Episode 176: Once in a Blue Moon Pie Poetry Picnic
We celebrate July being National Picnic Month, as we turn it into National Poetry at the Picnic Month and have two picnics, one with traditional foods and one…
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Episode 175: Shedding Gemstones
Episode 175, Shedding Gemstones COMES OUT at the end of Pride Month. Bill and Shaun talk about the Equality Gala and read some poems by noted gay poets, such…
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Episode 174: Get Yourself a Diary
On June 12, 1942, Anne Frank got a diary for her 13th birthday. A few weeks later, she went into hiding with her family. Her diary changed the world. A diary…
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Episode 173: Talking in Cursive
Episode 173: Talking in Cursive takes us down Route 66 with poems written impromptu at the Capital Cruise Expo in Tulsa on May 28-29, as Tulsa set a Guinness…
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Episode 172: White Board Snake Road
Episode 172: White Board Snake Road gives you information about the history of the white board, which you didn't know you needed, plus some poems left on the…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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"…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Episode 152: Down This Wildness Tonic
Episode 152: Wildness Tonic gets wild with musings about the museum's upcoming book club on nature themes inspired by Henry David Thoreau, among others. Sandy…
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Episode 151: You Smell Really Odd
Episode 151: You Smell Really Odd is about a Mothman poem found in the museum, which leads us into a discussion of nightmares, storytelling, owls, fear, and…
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Episode 150: Populate Your Mind
Episode 150: Populate Your Mind is about a sad and lovely poem written many years ago and found in a box of auction items. We discuss loneliness and the remedy…
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Episode 149: Trading Skyway for the Highway
Episode 149: Trading Skyway for the Highway is brought to you by a recent visitor to the museum, Michael Jones, who wrote about his own cryptid experience in…
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Episode 148: Thunderbird Inspiration
Episode 148: Thunderbird Inspiration begins with an art piece by Roxann Yates in our new Dear Cryptid exhibit, which inspired a poem by a recent visitor…
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Episode 147: Is That a Poem in Your Pocket?
Episode 147: Is That a Poem in Your Pocket is about Poem in Your Pocket Day and so much more. We discuss binary thinking, haiku, the cathartic nature of poetry…
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Episode 146: The Body Song of Spring
Episode 146: The Body Song of Spring is our 2025 spring episode with poetry, jokes, line completion challenges, and a lot of wonderful info. about the…
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Episode 145: Every Mother is a Wendigo
Episode 145: Every Mother is a Wendigo begins with a stellar impromptu cryptid poem left in the museum last weekend. Monster talk and hifalutin stuff also…
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Episode 144: Cruisin' with Cryptids
Episode 144: Cruisin’ with Cryptids continues Bill’s cool poems about cryptids, plus other things about secretive beings and critters in the concrete pond and…
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Episode 143: Cryptid-Cast
Episode 143: The Critters of the Cryptid-Cast is an intro episode about the Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry's new exhibit DEAR CRYPTID. Bill reads a series of…
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Episode 142: Old Mother Hunt Had a Rough Cut Punt
Episode 142: Old Mother Hunt Had a Rough Cut Punt is all about tongue twisters, alliteration, and the ways that the sounds of words allow us to engage, to…
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Episode 141: Poetry From Your Face Out Loud!
Episode 141: Poetry From Your Face Out Loud! This episode details the recent Poetry Out Loud recitation competition at ROMP, the high school contestants and…
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Episode 140: THE WAY
Episode 140: The Way is about "Do," the belief in "the way of," the path," the "road" or "passage" that one takes in order to live a full life, to learn, to be…
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Episode 139: White Leg in the Water
Episode 139: White Leg in the Water is about ekphrastic poetry, about murals and our mural artist and podcast co-host Bill Guthrie's work on the museum mural…
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Episode 138: Roundhouse Kick in the Face by Time
Episode 138: Roundhouse Kick in the Face by Time is about the many ways that we experience the concept of TIME, both in our real lives and in real poetry…
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Episode 137: Poems in an Encyclopedia
Episode 137: Poems in an Encyclopedia covers, well folks, it covers a heck of a lot in its 30-minutish time frame. We kid you not. There is a wealth of…
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Episode 136: Just Because!
Episode 136: Just Because! was inspired by a donation and a unique poem that went with it--both mailed to the Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry. What mundane…
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Episode 135: Fray Boggards
Episode 135: Fray Boggards is a bit about creepy frogs but also about dark and scary poems and the places from which the best scary poems arise. A phantom…
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Episode 134: Uh Oh, UFO
Episode 134: Uh Oh, UFO begins with a post-it note poem written and folded into a jewelry box and left in the museum for us all to ponder. "When I was 8"....do…
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Episode 133: Church Gum
Episode 133: Church Gum is about precisely that, and nothing more. Church. Gum. Ah . . . just kidding. It's about getting through church and the gum at the…
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Episode 132: I Beg Your Pardon
Episode 132: I Beg Your Pardon asks you to consider the rose garden, as Lynn Anderson would so want you to. Well, sort of. Roses and their cliched existence in…
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Episode 131: Anatomy of a Human Book
Episode 131: Anatomy of a Human Book takes you on a journey into the human as book, anatomy as metaphor, the spine as paper or . . . something else. What is it…
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Episode 130: Cats Don't Have Our Tongue
Episode 130: Cats Don’t Have Our Tongue is obvious when you listen as . . . we have a lot to say about cats and deliver a CATastrophic amount of poems about…
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Episode 129: Poetry in the Wild
Episode 129: Poetry in the Wild begins in a gas station where we ponder the Little Debbie Red Velvet Creme Filled Cakes that we aren't supposed to eat though…
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Episode 128: Poetry at the Post Office & Vet Clinic
Episode 128: Poetry at the Post Office & Vet Clinic includes post-Independence Day thoughts that have us traveling to both a post office and a veterinary…
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Episode 127: Prediction Machines, Bigfoot & a Hip Campus
Episode 127: Prediction Machines, Bigfoot & a Hip Campus discusses the brain, the mind, memory and perception and a bunch of things that have to do with our…
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Episode 126: Down the Dirt Roads
Episode 126: Down the Dirt Roads is a different WPL episode, as Bill is out of town, and Shaun welcomes Faith Phillips, author of a book that will be the first…
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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…
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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…