My Bad Poetry

Aaron's sister delivers on a hope first expressed in episode 5.1 "Not Long Song...Not Long," providing audio files from a cassette tape in Aaron's past. Dave and Aaron take a break for the Thanksgiving Holiday but not before taking a listen to these never before shared "songs" from a piney-whiney high school Aaron circ. 2008. Warning: amateur emo piano ballads may cause unexpected ear bleeds and/or thoughts of grumpiness. My Bad Poetry Episode 5.B1 "Bad Songs-giving" Podcast Email: mybadpoetry.thepodcast@gmail.com Bluesky: @mybadpoetrythepod.bsky.social Instagram & Threads: @MyBadPoetry_ThePod Website: ⁠⁠https://www.podpage.com/my-bad-poetry/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mybadpoetry-thepodcast/message

Sickness could not prevent this podcast from being recorded. Though maybe it should have... Dave and Aaron continue to work through the uncharted lengths of the latter pages of the Wolf Journal. What hellscape have they stumbled into? Listen along to find out! My Bad Poetry Episode 5.3: "The Devils Playground" End Poem from a Real Poet: "XLVI [Many red devils ran from my heart]" by Stephen Crane Podcast Email: mybadpoetry.thepodcast@gmail.com Aaron's new poem "Green" that Dave wrote "Periwinkle" after can be found here: Roi Faineant Undone 51 Bluesky: @mybadpoetrythepod.bsky.social Instagram & Threads: @MyBadPoetry_ThePod Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.podpage.com/my-bad-poetry/⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mybadpoetry-thepodcast/message

Another failed song from the pages of the Wolf Journal has Dave all kinds of frustrated. Too short, bad rhymes, toxic message, these are just a few of the reasons the hosts came up with...not to love this one. My Bad Poetry Episode 5.2 "A Reason" End Poem from a Real Poet: "I attempt from love's sickness to fly" by John Dryden and Sir. Robert Howard Podcast Email: mybadpoetry.thepodcast@gmail.com Bluesky: @mybadpoetrythepod.bsky.social Instagram & Threads: @MyBadPoetry_ThePod Website: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.podpage.com/my-bad-poetry/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mybadpoetry-thepodcast/message

Welcome to Season 5! Dave and Aaron turn the page in the Wolf Journal to find a new genre of highschool Aaron's writing... lyrics. While this song may have tried to describe the immeasurable feelings of young love, the length of the stanza quite short. Or not nearly short enough according to Dave. My Bad Poetry Episode 5.1 "Not Long Song... Not Long" End Poem from a Real Poet: "Me and My Dog" by Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers aka boygenius Podcast Email: mybadpoetry.thepodcast@gmail.com Bluesky: @mybadpoetrythepod.bsky.social Instagram & Threads: @MyBadPoetry_ThePod Website: ⁠⁠https://www.podpage.com/my-bad-poetry/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mybadpoetry-thepodcast/message

Feeling nostalgic and a little crunched for time after 100 episodes, Aaron gives up on a blooper reel and finds a whole host of oddities in the uncut recording of "My Bad Poetry- Introductions" from Season 1. A promo that ended up being just under 3 minutes took nearly 9 minutes to record. Which actually is pretty accurate to how the show still sounds behind the scenes. My Bad Poetry Episode 4.21 "Our Bad Introductions" You can listen to the original final product here: My Bad Poetry-Introductions Podcast Email: mybadpoetry.thepodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @MyBadPoetryThe1 Website: https://www.podpage.com/my-bad-poetry/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mybadpoetry-thepodcast/message

Dave and Aaron reach 100 episodes of the podcast and are somehow still dealing with Wolf Journal entries. High-schooler Aaron writes not from the mind and it shows as he tries to give advice on how to write. Considering all that has come before, maybe these words should be taken with a grain of salt. Also an abandon thought hangs out on the same page. Dave and Aaron take about as much time on it as previous Aaron apparently did. My Bad Poetry Episode 4.20: "A Word of Advice" End Poem from a Real Poet: "Writing Prompt" by Michael Torres Podcast Email: mybadpoetry.thepodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @MyBadPoetryThe1 Instagram: @MyBadPoetry_ThePod Website: ⁠https://www.podpage.com/my-bad-poetry/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mybadpoetry-thepodcast/message

"Look at Old Photographs/ Everytime we do it makes us laugh." Megan brings so many gems to the show, yet the crew only had time to discuss two of them. Partly because they kept getting off topic with clergy stuff, and mainly because these works from a 17 year old Megan have layers. From romantic idealism to jaded pessimism all within the span of a stanza, Dave and Aaron find the rollercoaster of near rhymes and moonlit miracles well worth the ride. My Bad Poetry Episode 4.19: "The Prince & Old Photographs (w/Megan McDermott)" End Poem from a Real Poet: "Prayer Book for Contemporary Dating: The Index" by Megan McDermott published in Prayer Book for Contemporary Dating. Megan is a writer and Episcopal priest with her newest book Jesus Merch: A Catalog in Poem is available through Fernwood Press. Megan also references her chapbook Woman as Communion through Game Over Books. You can follow her work through her website https://meganmcdermottpoet.com/. Podcast Email: mybadpoetry.thepodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @MyBadPoetryThe1 Instagram: @MyBadPoetry_ThePod Website: ⁠https://www.podpage.com/my-bad-poetry/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mybadpoetry-thepodcast/message

Having covered all of the typed poems from Aaron's high school anthologies, Dave is sad to learn that the Wolf Journal is far from empty. Aaron finds three loose stanzas to get the show back into the pages of these handwritten "works." My Bad Poetry Episode 4.18 "Return to the Wolf Journal" End Poem from a Real Poet: “If you shed tears” by Rabindranath Tagore Podcast Email: mybadpoetry.thepodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @MyBadPoetryThe1 Instagram: @MyBadPoetry_ThePod Website: ⁠https://www.podpage.com/my-bad-poetry/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mybadpoetry-thepodcast/message

Though Dave had to bow out to be a good parent to sick kids, Aaron and Emily take a break from parenting to talk about poetry! Emily brings not only old poems but pictures from an eighth-grade project. Ekphrastic might be one way to describe these works but..."bad"...may be more accurate? My Bad Poetry Episode 4.17 "Popularity, Two Similar? & When a tree is chopped...? (w/Emily Dillon) End Poem from a Real Poet: "Pink Prose" by Emily Dillon published through Twin Pies Literary. Emily is a writer, teacher, coach, artist, and editor, from Maryland. You can find her website at https://www.emilydillonwriting.com/ which includes a list of her publications. When she isn't busy doing everything you can follow her on Twitter @emily_dillon or Instagram @ emilydillonwriting. Podcast Email: mybadpoetry.thepodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @MyBadPoetryThe1 Instagram: @MyBadPoetry_ThePod Website: ⁠https://www.podpage.com/my-bad-poetry/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mybadpoetry-thepodcast/message

Dave and Aaron discuss the last of the "poems without a home" from Aaron's typed out high school anthologies. The co-hosts cover the the lighthearted and easily discussed topic of "death." Why was a ninth grader writing about such a topic? Aaron thinks it was homework. My Bad Poetry Episode 4.16 "Death" End Poem from A Real Poet: "Sonnet 71" by William Shakespeare Podcast Email: mybadpoetry.thepodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @MyBadPoetryThe1 Instagram: @MyBadPoetry_ThePod Website: ⁠https://www.podpage.com/my-bad-poetry/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mybadpoetry-thepodcast/message

The co-hosts are honored to have a two time "Wakefield Prize" winning poet on this week's show. Aside from made up awards, John Yamrus brings decades of wisdom to the podcast in writing and being published. Of course, he also brings what he calls "embarrassingly" bad poems. My Bad Poetry Episode 4.15 Poem & I have (w/ John Yamrus) End Poem from a Real Poet: Two works from Selected Poems: The Director's Cut by John Yamrus. You can find and purchase Yamrus' most recent book Twenty Four Poems here as well as many of his other 35 publications here. You can find and follow Yamrus on his Facebook account here: https://www.facebook.com/john.yamrus/ Podcast Email: mybadpoetry.thepodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @MyBadPoetryThe1 Website: ⁠https://www.podpage.com/my-bad-poetry/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mybadpoetry-thepodcast/message

Ken, the self described blue collar poet and poet laureate of the Cleveland sewer system, joins Dave and Aaron for some needed discussions around beard balm ingredients, who really was at the manger, and how someone stumbles into poetry. My Bad Poetry Episode 4.14 "A Party at the Manger, The Beard Balm Conundrum, & Judging the Dead (w/ Ken Tomaro)" End Poem from a Real Poet: "All Planned Out" by Ken Tomaro which is found in his most recently published collection Potholes and Perogies. His other works Home is where the headstones are, and Paralysis can also be found and purchased online. Ken's newest project "Screaming Down the Poetic Highway" can be found on Youtube. Podcast Email: mybadpoetry.thepodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @MyBadPoetryThe1 Website: ⁠https://www.podpage.com/my-bad-poetry/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mybadpoetry-thepodcast/message

Aaron and Dave are fated with the task of diving back into the old works of a high school Aaron this week. Instead they spend most of their conversation discussing the Barbie movie; most of which had to be cut for time. While the poem is nothing special Aaron seized on a second of time to close out a long standing debate when Dave admits to hearing alliteration with only two repetitions of the starting consonant! How long this truce will last is yet to be determined. My Bad Poetry Episode 4.13 "Fate" End Poem from a Real Poet: "Better to Die" Florence Earle Coates Podcast Email: mybadpoetry.thepodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @MyBadPoetryThe1 Instagram: @MyBadPoetry_ThePod Website: ⁠https://www.podpage.com/my-bad-poetry/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mybadpoetry-thepodcast/message

My Bad Poetry returns from its midseason hiatus with a teacher ready to teach. Jessica Cuello brings her rejects to the table and still manages to encourage and educate the two co-hosts in the best possible way. Hear discussions on purposeful misspellings, missing the mark with narrative over lyrical lines, and how punctuation can be a great friend or foe. My Bad Poetry Episode 4.12 "Conchence, Achers, & Smite (w/ Jessica Cuello) End Poem from a Real Poet: "Dear Mother, [I wanted to crawl]" by Jessica Cuello. You can find "Dear Mother," in Yours, Creature from JackLeg Press, 2023. Cuello is also the author of Liar (Barrow Street Press, 2021), Hunt (Word Works 2017, and Pricking (Tiger Bark Press, 2016). You can find all her latest news and updates on her website https://jessicacuello.com/ and you can follow her on Twitter @JessicaACuello. Podcast Email: mybadpoetry.thepodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @MyBadPoetryThe1 Instagram: @MyBadPoetry_ThePod Website: ⁠https://www.podpage.com/my-bad-poetry/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mybadpoetry-thepodcast/message

Dave and Aaron were unable to find the time to record this week. So Aaron dug through the back catalogue of late Season 3 and the first half of Season 4 to compile this random collection of outtakes and bloopers. This episode features a heavy dose of one particular co-host. From beard wax to barbershop, we all get to learn a little more about the person, the legend, the persona grata that is Dave. Also... Aaron continues to struggle with the basic pronunciations of names. Other voices include Michael VanCalbergh, Candice Kelsey, Alex Carrigan, Nolcha Fox, & Matt Schur. My Bad Poetry Episode 4.Bonus: Midseason Blooper Break Want to enjoy a real episode?  Might we suggest our Featured Guests Episodes! Want to enjoy more bloopers?  We have plenty of those too! Podcast Email: mybadpoetry.thepodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @MyBadPoetryThe1 Website: https://www.podpage.com/my-bad-poetry/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mybadpoetry-thepodcast/message