My Bad Poetry

Dave and Aaron breath a sigh of relief after finishing the final typed collection from Aaron's high school years.  While there are still more episodes to come it felt like a good time to reflect and wrap up most of Season 3.  They talk about what episode they would suggest to someone starting the show and highlight some amazing events of the season.  There is even a brief cameo from poet Jay Parr who took a crack at saying "Roi Fainéant!" My Bad Poetry Episode 3.19 "Analogy of Life Wrap-Up" End Poem from a "Real" Poet: "A Waking Thought" by Aaron G. H.  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

Just when you thought you had heard the last of the "Silence Saga", the very end of high school Aaron's third anthology throws one more in the mix.  An untitled poem musing on the need and lack of silence seems to be a fitting companion for Dave and Aaron this week as Aaron's "recording studio" -aka the kitchen table- is repeatedly interrupted by a child who is stretching the definition of their "quite/rest time."  Nevertheless they persevere to say a lot on the little they had to work with.  Hopefully this is not one you are waiting to unhear!   My Bad Poetry Episode 3.18: "'Untitled (Silence IV)" End Poem from a Real Poet: "Silence" by Babette Deutsch 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

If the Silence Saga wasn't enough Aaron's previous self decided to write a second "My Words" without any acknowledgment of the first.  Dave and Aaron work through this poem that seems to be reflecting on the Wolf journal entries as a whole and they find themselves landing in a similar place (spoilers... it's toxic masculinity!)  My Bad Poetry Episode 3.17: "'My Words (II)" End Poem from a Real Poet: "The world is s beautiful place" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Video Essays cited at the 21' mark: "Superman Won't Save the Cat | ZACK SNYDER PART 1-3" by Maggie Mae Fish   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

Start of 2023 with a new blooper reel!  Or maybe don't... We won't judge.   Aaron and Dave continue to struggle with all things recording in this collection of gaffes, tangents, and conversations cut for time.   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

With the holidays and vacations, Dave and Aaron decided to try their hand at a new format for this special episode.  With randomly generated words, chance styles, and five minutes the two co-hosts attempt to write poems for the season.  Some fair better than others.  None fair well.* Hoping the end of 2022 has brought with it times of rest, joy, hope, peace, and reasons to be happy.  Next time yule be hearing from us is in the New Year. ;) -Aaron and Dave My Bad Poetry Episode 3.15: "'Blizzard' & Three Soap Limericks (Holiday Special)" End Poem from a Real Poet: "O Jesus Christ, Thy Manger Is" by Paul Gerhardt Podcast Email: mybadpoetry.thepodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @MyBadPoetryThe1 Website: https://www.podpage.com/my-bad-poetry/ *Aaron must apologize for the sound this week.  A certain three year old was playing with the microphone right before recording and Aaron forgot to check the gain.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mybadpoetry-thepodcast/message

Dr. MEH and us tell each other fairy tales... or really just share some bad poetry.  Aaron and Dave are delighted to have Mathew E Henry on the show to share some of his first ever poems which were heavily influenced by the great e. e. cummings and of course Counting Crows.  Aaron accidently has Matthew read all three of the shared poems including "she says it's only in my head" and he's not really worried or overly concerned because it's all or nothing.  Also Dave adds one more to his "sad dad" poetry collection at the beginning of the episode.   My Bad Poetry Episode 3.14 "musing & (at) fireworks on the 7th (w/ Matthew E Henry)" End Poem from a Real Poet: "Hevel" by Matthew E Henry to be published in his upcoming chapbook said the Frog to the scorpion scheduled to drop in the winter of 2023.  Matthew E Henry publications and other musings can be found here.   Dr. MEH is a high school English teacher and the editor-in-chief of The Weight Journal.  His three published collections the Colored page, Teaching While Black, and Dust & Ashes can all be purchased here.  His other upcoming chapbook The Third Renunciation is scheduled for the spring of 2023.  More information on his work and where to find her can be found through his website: https://www.mehpoeting.com/ and you can follow him on Twitter @MehPoeting 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

When should a writer take the title and theme of their work as the best advice?  Perhaps when they continue to work with "Silence."  With a recording scheduled that spanned a week, Aaron and Dave return once more to the endless well that is high school Aaron's "deep" thoughts on silence.  Also Dave has a pretty good joke about Webster's word of the year sprinkled in there.     My Bad Poetry Episode 3.13: "Silence III"  End Poem from a Real Poet: "In Deepest Night" & "In Sacred Manner" by Susan Palo Cherwien   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

In this weeks episode Dave and Aaron talk a while on a perfect topic for an auditory medium like podcasting... silence.  Dave channels his inner troll for his starter poem and Aaron's poetry feels like trolling in its own right.  Hear Dave attempt to remind Aaron of basic things that Aaron has forgotten from high school biology.  Then sit with your thoughts and wonder how there could possible to more than 10 minutes of cut material from this episode.   Apparently the co-hosts had a lot to say about a little when it came to this late sequel.  Rumor is Silence III is already in production! My Bad Poetry Episode 3.12: "Silence II" End Poem from a Real Poet: "But the silence in the mind" by R. S. Thomas 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 break up the silence (and by that we mean the recording of two poems on Silence from Aaron's journals) with another amazing guest episode.  Frances Klein not only brings her quick wit and sense of humor to the show but she brings her first ever poem.  A work she composed as a thesis project of all things.  Hear the evolution of her craft from first draft to today and laugh along along the way.      My Bad Poetry Episode 3.11 "The Mask & Patron Saints (w/ Frances Klein)"  End Poem from a Real Poet: "In the bower/the roses hang so heavy—" by Frances Klein published in New and Permanent  Frances Klein's poetry can be found in River Styx, Tupelo Press, So it Goes: The Literary Journal of the Vonnegut Memorial Library, HAD, Roi Faineant Press, and so many more!  She is the assistant editor of Southern Humanities Review and a high school English teacher.  Her chapbook New and Permanent is available through Blanket Sea Press (with 10% of proceeds going to support "The Little Timmy Project") and her microchap The Best Secret is provided by Bottlecap Press.  More information on her work and where to find her can be found through her linktree: linktr.ee/francesklein  and you can follow her on Twitter @fklein907.  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

From the cutting floor of "Realization," comes the shocking revelation on the true tipping point for the show's existence! A moment that Dave is perhaps still reeling from.   Hear this truly terrifying and mystifying reveal...along with how Season Four may be structured and how truly grateful we are for guests on the show!   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 have multiple realizations during this episode.  1. Dave should maybe not record with a fever. 2. Aaron doesn't understand commas. 3. This show is so lucky to have guests willing to speak with us. 4.  Giving a poem a title is hard.   My Bad Poetry Episode 3.10: "Realization" End Poem from a Real Poet: "Thought." by Alice Dunbar-Nelson 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

This week's episode is often in direct conversations with our previous episode 3.7 "Alive." Aaron's high school self brings his notable style of subtlety to this week's poem.  And by that we mean, the title tells you exactly everything to pay attention for this poem.   Dave and Aaron attempt to improve the work with some actual -yet small- success.  Meanwhile Dave continues his renaissance of "must be read" poems at the start of this episode.  Content Warning: This week's poem deals with ideas around suicide.  If you are someone you know are struggling with thoughts of suicide, severe depression, or anxiety, please speak up, talk with family or friends, or text or call the US national lifeline 988.  Support is out there and you are worth it.   My Bad Poetry Episode 3.9: "Letters" End Poem from a Real Poet: "[The cry of the cicada]" by Matsuo Basho -translation by William George Aston 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

When scheduling conflicts and unseen events prevented a Halloween weekend recording with Lauren Theresa it seems like some of the magic may have been lost to time.  Thank goodness for Daylight Savings which gave everyone another hour and a perfect time for Aaron and Dave to hear the bad, the batty, and the beautiful poems from this great guest. My Bad Poetry Episode 3.8 "Enraptured, Breaking With Reality, & I Want to Believe (w/ Lauren Theresa)" End Poem from a Real Poet: "Motels" by Lauren Theresa published by Maudlin House Lauren Theresa's published work can be found in HAD, Maudlin House, Rejection Letters, Gutslut Press, Tiny Wren, Warning Lines, Daily Drunk Mag.  She is a poetry editor at Onley Magazine and a co-creator of ICEBREAKERS.  Her chapbook Lost Things is available through BullSh*t Lit.  More information on her work and where to find her can be found on her website here: https://www.laurentheresa.com/  and you can follow her on Twitter @ImLaurenTheresa 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

When life got in the way of recording this week, we dove into the crypt of cut pieces to Frankenstein together something "new" for our October 31st episode.  While the bloopers aren't necessarily frightening, we hope you enjoy this impromptu Halloween "special." Correction: Aaron says Sondheim worked on the Broadway "Marry Poppins." That was hastily corrected by his sister. Sondheim had worked on his own version early on but couldn't get the rights. He was not involved in the Disney stage version.  My Bad Poetry Episode 3.7.5: "Halloween 'Special' aka Bloopers"  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 encounter a poem that may actually be poetic? "Alive" deals a bit more with mental health issues that previous poems so Aaron and Dave attempt to address the topic without ruining the lighthearted vibe.  Hopefully there is reason enough here to stick around for a listen.   Suicide & Crisis Lifeline- #988 My Bad Poetry Episode 3.7: "Alive" End Poem from a Real Poet: "I Know Not" by Diwaldo Salom 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