Podcast in A minor Amy Zoellers

Time to consider the spleen! That magnificent purple organ that cleans your blood and does you all kinds of good! And didn’t Keanu Reeves and Christian Bale both rupture theirs in motorcycle accidents back in the ‘90s? A vague memory, unconfirmed. Anyway! Here is your formal intro to POETRY FREAKS The Podcast—and Three Poems Called Spleen! Talk about summer fun!!

POETRY FREAKS The Podcast https://youtu.be/J0-cM6dgYW0?si=IC7FmMAee0LGkCIu


POETRY FREAKS The Game https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/451053/poetry-freaks

Whoa—Count Dracula in Swinging London?? I’m a little breathless again! It’s “Dracula A.D. 1972”! What more could we want? The kaleidoscopic colors—the misty churchyard—the bloodbath! My goodness, what are you waiting for? A spurt of go-go music for a vampire chase in the fog? Well, you’ll get it! Freak out!!!

Was the poet John Keats a graverobber? Who wants to know? And why shouldn’t he be? He was the whole gothic package—-tubercular, pale, preoccupied with death, poetic… Here is your sleek transition from poetry hangover to summer sleepovers with their ghostly thrills. And OHHH catch a brand new urban legend starring your dauntless host—wowie!!

Keats A-Go-Go:
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190723-was-the-poet-john-keats-a-graverobber

Exploring John Keats' Poems About Death - PoemVerse
www.poemverse.org/keats-poems-about-death/

www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2021/02/why-keats-s-haunting-reflections-tuberculosis-resonate-age-covid-19

Lonely Water Spirit ~ Donald Pleasance 1973
www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=donald+pleasance+publc+service+tv+water&qpvt=donald+pleasance+publc+service+tv+water&view=riverview&mmscn=mtsc&mid=959D29E41B471F87A2BF959D29E41B471F87A2BF&&aps=0&FORM=VMSOVR

Jenny with the Iron Teeth
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/jenny-wi-airn-teeth/

Overheard on a Saltmarsh
www.allpoetry.com/overheard-on-a-saltmarsh

Jenny Greenteeth the doll

https://www.instagram.com/p/CP-74p8MDXX/?igsh=MTl6ZXd2N28xMTZnZA==

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx243kJA-q4/?igsh=NTA3ZmhjN3R5Ynh0


Jenny with the Iron Teeth

https://www.instagram.com/p/BxWC7dFAMUH/?igsh=bjgxcWNwdXh4YW12

other dolls

https://www.instagram.com/p/BxPrkxpgDHc/?igsh=MXN5cDV2c3Z3c2FhNA==

https://www.instagram.com/p/BxASfmMAA71/?igsh=MWk2ZmpxbHVpOTF5dA==

https://www.instagram.com/p/BwDUNX1APac/?igsh=MWcxNW9scTg3ZnRpNA==

https://www.instagram.com/p/BwTM0zpAXaw/?igsh=NDYzempzbDIzeXA2

https://www.instagram.com/p/BwKBnE7A3gf/?igsh=MWt4aDBkNnB4OTF0dg==

Poets and Poetry Freaks alike–gather, gather! For a song of accursed poets and a nice long swim in their wake. Hey, there’s a French term for those folks: Poétes maudits! And you know how a very specific phrase in another language just grips me by the soul and sets me to shivering with joy! Cursed poets, symbolists, decadents! With a trifecta like that, how can we not emerge more poetic? This is the dream!

A Poet’s Glossary
www.edwardhirsch.com/a-poets-glossary-2/
White Heliotrope
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50496/white-heliotrope

Decadent poems

https://interestingliterature.com/2019/12/best-decadent-1890s-poems/amp/

Brief guide to the Symbolists
https://poets.org/text/brief-guide-symbolists


The Fellowship of the Cursed Poets - Ethics & Public Policy Center (eppc.org)
eppc.org/publication/the-fellowship-of-the-cursed-poets/#:~:text=In%20“Edgar%20Allan%20Poe%2C%20His%20Life%20and%20Works”,Poe’s%20case%20with%20alcohol—for%20his%20invaluable%20art’s%20sake.

www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2012/01/drink-every-time-you-see-the-phrase-cursed-poet

Why yes, poetry on gum wrappers—you should try it sometime. National Poetry Month toodles along, leaving starry trails behind it — and things get groovy with poetry glowed up with ambient musical coolness—thanks to Scott Chaffin! This one’s a love letter to poetry practice with a whole load of poems written on gum wrappers—plus a list of books that have inspired me the most! Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon
The Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave
M Train by Patti Smith
Headcleaner by Blixa Bargeld
Guilty Pleasures by Donald Barthelme
A Poet’s Glossary by Edward Hirsch
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates
Grapefruit by Yoko Ono
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
The Practicing Poet edited by Diane Lockward
and Wild Raspberries ~ Andy Warhol’s cookbook of paintings with recipes on them.
Poetry Freaks (the game)
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/451053/poetry-freaks

Breakfast Poetry Live ~ daily livestreams throughout April 2024 (archived)
https://www.instagram.com/hipness_and_outrage?igsh=MTZ1b2phZmRva3pyag%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

YouTube (Breakfast Poetry Live & more)
https://youtube.com/@hipnessoutrage?si=7w5dhDo5exiU3xF9

The best chair in the room is all yours for the next leg of our party for National Poetry Month! This one’s a poem-to-song—utilizing a poem written last National Poetry Month (2023) when randomly-drawn Beautiful Words provided the prompts (the word was PICTURESQUE). Then snuggle in for a reading of 3 poems (two of them rare), a little Dorothy Parker, and an impromptu string-of-pearls poetry exercise using books of song lyrics and dice! Wheee!

Poetry Freaks (the game)
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/451053/poetry-freaks

Breakfast Poetry Live ~ daily livestreams throughout April 2024 (archived)
https://www.instagram.com/hipness_and_outrage?igsh=MTZ1b2phZmRva3pyag%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

YouTube (Breakfast Poetry Live & more)
https://youtube.com/@hipnessoutrage?si=7w5dhDo5exiU3xF9

Vandal: Poems of Disentanglement https://a.co/d/gR2PMM5

Dorothy Parker public domain
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68353