Join Max and Kelley Grimm as we explore ways to incorporate creativity into your everyday life. Once we give ourselves permission to feel inspired by allowing our imaginations to flourish, we can reignite that childlike joy to create without being self-conscious.
A River Between Chaos and Zen - Ep. 17 - Anonymous Poetry
Send us Fan Mail Max discusses how he enjoys poems, a chapter from the book 500 Greatest Poems, and some poems don't have the names of the poets or the year they were written, and some go back to the year 1250 and earlier. Edward, Edward is one from the 1600s about a man going to sea, and what he'll leave for his family and his beloved mother. The Three Ravens is about birds set in a tree, and they think about a meal while they look at a knight. The Cherry Tree Carol is abou...
26 Apr 2026
A River Between Chaos and Zen - Ep. 18 - A Child's Garden of Verses
Send us Fan Mail Max talks about The Gutenberg Project and Robert Lewis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses, and the night that the lights went out in his neighborhood, and being tucked into bed with a white candle. It includes the poems: Summer in BedAt the SeasideYoung Night ThoughtRainPirate StoryForeign LandsWindy NightsThis is a great episode to share with a little one. For more on Creative Actors Lab, check our website, www.creativeactorslab.com. You can always find us at...
19 Apr 2026
A River Between Chaos and Zen - Ep. 16 - Oscar Wilde & The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Max reads The Ballad of Reading Gaol, which Oscar Wilde wrote while he was in jail for two years for the crime of homosexuality, and it was inspired by Charles Thomas Wooldridge, a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards, who was imprisoned and executed for murdering his wife. The poem highlights the brutality of the penal system, the mental suffering of inmates, and the hypocrisy of morality, featuring the famous line, "Yet each man kills the thing he l...
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