Poking Around Podcast
1) Christmas Eve Eve
Featured poem: Carol by Ishion HutchinsonPoem read with permission from the author. Theme song by Allegra RitchieSend us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingaroundpod@gmail.comNew episode every T...Show More
2) The Summer House Vaseline Oasis at Bravo Con
Featured poem: A Jelly-Fish by Marianne Moore. Featured topics: immortality, trains, insurance, and the great wide world of reality television. Poem is in the public domain.Theme song by Allegra Ritch...Show More
3) No Chewing Allowed
Featured poem: Mudlarking by Rebecca Faulkner. Featured topics: ghosts, sisters, childhood, nostalgia, yearning, holiday markets, righteousness, and chocolate. Poem read with permission from the autho...Show More
4) Thanksgiving Special
Featured poem: Success by Bessie Anderson Stanley. Featured topics: living, laughing, loving, succeeding, being grateful, and of course, an egg's benediction. Poem in the public domain.Theme song by A...Show More
5) Dollar Coin Wish
Featured poem: At the bar, C calls me lonely, like actually" by Loisa FenichellFeatured topics: childhood friends, spinsters, vending machines, wishing wells, longing, and Apple Pay. Poem read with pe...Show More
6) The Papaya
Featured poem: Braintree by Kristina Percy. Featured topics: motherhood, fig wasps, the wisdom of children, brains, fruits, and Hannah's 2020 confusion. Poem read with permission from the author, part...Show More
7) Roaches Vote Twice
Featured poem: Cockroach by Jenny Qi. Featured topics: ELECTION DAY!, Las Vegas, language bastardization, pigeon nests, voter fraud, and ice cream lines.Poem read with permission from the author. Them...Show More
8) Doggy Dog World
Featured poem: Incunabula, Mother Tongue by Max McDonough. Featured topics: insomnia, idioms, language, mothers, witches, shame, and the way that love is at the center of everything. Poem read with pe...Show More
9) Invasive Species
Featured poem: I Nominate the Linden to Continue Its Service As Tree of Longing & Aromatic Futility by Alina Stefanescu. Featured topics: trees, nationality, invasive species, affairs, shame, romantic...Show More
10) Haunted AMC
Sorry this episode is echoey! Join us in the tunnel chamber of poem creation :) Featured poem: A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe. Featured topics: sand, dreams, the ocean tormenting the shore,...Show More