https://poemlife.podbean.com POEM LIFE is a podcast detailing the origins of a life in poetry that does not require you love poetry, or even like it, to enjoy. Tue, 07 Apr 2020 10:37:48 -0500 https://podbean.com/?v=5.5 en Copyright 2020 Shaun Perkins. All rights reserved. Arts 1440 episodic POEM LIFE is a podcast detailing the origins of a life in poetry that does not require you love poetry, or even like it, to enjoy. Shaun Perkins Shaun Perkins No false https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/310179/podbean.png https://poemlife.podbean.com 144 144 Episode 12: Naming the Gaudy Neighbor https://poemlife.podbean.com/e/episode-12-naming-the-gaudy-neighbor/ https://poemlife.podbean.com/e/episode-12-naming-the-gaudy-neighbor/#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2020 10:37:48 -0500 poemlife.podbean.com/2d9e63ff-d917-576d-adad-9d9108e7b6a1 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. 

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]]> Shaun Perkins false No 1628 12 full Episode 11: The Play is the Thing https://poemlife.podbean.com/e/episode-11-the-play-is-the-thing/ https://poemlife.podbean.com/e/episode-11-the-play-is-the-thing/#comments Sat, 28 Mar 2020 11:52:06 -0500 poemlife.podbean.com/a2a73c1a-c7db-5580-90b3-a47b6eed8cdf This episode describes the connection between plays and poetry and how the two connect in the life of a budding poet. 

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]]> Shaun Perkins false No 1289 11 full Episode 10: Running Away https://poemlife.podbean.com/e/episode-10-running-away/ https://poemlife.podbean.com/e/episode-10-running-away/#comments Sun, 22 Mar 2020 12:50:18 -0500 poemlife.podbean.com/c19f0393-b228-56ec-89b3-d2eb52c8ffd8 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.

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]]> Shaun Perkins false No 1619 10 full Episode 9: Young Romance https://poemlife.podbean.com/e/episode-9-young-romance/ https://poemlife.podbean.com/e/episode-9-young-romance/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2020 08:10:49 -0500 poemlife.podbean.com/69787fd3-faf4-5b6c-b565-ecad45661b34 This episode describes romance comic books of the 1970's and the possible influence of the genre in the poetry of teenage girls.

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]]> Shaun Perkins false No 1686 9 full Episode 8: Moving Backward https://poemlife.podbean.com/e/episode-8-moving-backward/ https://poemlife.podbean.com/e/episode-8-moving-backward/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2020 11:53:49 -0500 poemlife.podbean.com/0d415eb2-809a-5776-8ab1-a467b7ac54ca 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.

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]]> Shaun Perkins false No 1455 8 full Episode 7: Notes on Poetic Memory https://poemlife.podbean.com/e/episode-7-notes-on-poetic-memory/ https://poemlife.podbean.com/e/episode-7-notes-on-poetic-memory/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2020 14:20:20 -0600 poemlife.podbean.com/fe702491-c5c3-57f5-8754-9d7a6d270781 This episode describes how childhood events become or do not become poetry and also ponders the nature of memory's influence on our writing.

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]]> Shaun Perkins false No 1657 7 full Episode 6: The Longing for Ruin https://poemlife.podbean.com/e/episode-6-the-longing-for-ruin/ https://poemlife.podbean.com/e/episode-6-the-longing-for-ruin/#comments Mon, 24 Feb 2020 09:03:16 -0600 poemlife.podbean.com/a1818c13-106b-53fd-8b8b-ee362e5c5cb2 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.

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]]> Shaun Perkins false No 1429 6 full Episode 5: Library Blocks & Heart Stones https://poemlife.podbean.com/e/library-blocks-heart-stones/ https://poemlife.podbean.com/e/library-blocks-heart-stones/#comments Wed, 19 Feb 2020 14:52:11 -0600 poemlife.podbean.com/8eb1eb41-f870-587b-a95e-dc5f00168b36 This episode explores the theme of abandonment in our actual lives and in literature and the interplay between the two that can create poetry.

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]]> Shaun Perkins false No 1269 5 full Episode 4: Ghosts in Autograph Books https://poemlife.podbean.com/e/episode-4-ghosts-in-autograph-books/ https://poemlife.podbean.com/e/episode-4-ghosts-in-autograph-books/#comments Sat, 15 Feb 2020 19:21:29 -0600 poemlife.podbean.com/a171abd2-49f3-5415-b00a-5e4d768ddbf5 This episode explores the phenomenon of autograph books and junior high note writing and the lives and the poetry that emerge from them. 

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]]> Shaun Perkins false No 1183 4 full Episode 3: Strong Girls and Young Years https://poemlife.podbean.com/e/episode-3-strong-girls-and-young-years/ https://poemlife.podbean.com/e/episode-3-strong-girls-and-young-years/#comments Thu, 13 Feb 2020 09:35:30 -0600 poemlife.podbean.com/1e2c809d-c77d-5114-82ae-a1e4248238a8 This episode describes two books that introduced the poet to a world of the imagination where both passive ladies and strong girls lived.

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]]> Shaun Perkins false No 1286 3 full Episode 2: Snake Creek & Story Trail Origins https://poemlife.podbean.com/e/episode-2-snake-creek-story-trail-origins/ https://poemlife.podbean.com/e/episode-2-snake-creek-story-trail-origins/#comments Tue, 11 Feb 2020 08:09:12 -0600 okiestoryteller.podbean.com/0b481d04-0e70-5976-8fb1-d7fd8db82170 This episode details the places and other influences that shape the beginnings of a life in poetry.

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]]> Shaun Perkins false No 1338 2 full Episode 1: Introduction https://poemlife.podbean.com/e/poem-life-episode-1-introduction/ https://poemlife.podbean.com/e/poem-life-episode-1-introduction/#comments Mon, 10 Feb 2020 13:13:47 -0600 okiestoryteller.podbean.com/c3ac03ef-e10c-5010-ac39-0bf9758c14f3 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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