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.
28 Mar 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.
22 Mar 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.
19 Mar 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.
17 Mar 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.
2 Mar 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.
24 Feb 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.
19 Feb 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.
16 Feb 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.
13 Feb 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 Feb 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.
10 Feb 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?
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