Podcast in A minor

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

Another 3-fer! Your new favorite trio of songwriting freaks can’t be stopped, don’t even try—this time tackling GOSPEL and gospel-like musical party favors. —> devotion —> pie bakers! plural!! —> and….forbidden realms. Tread lightly, do. Amy Zoellers, Scott Chaffin and Seann McAnally are in it up to their necks again. Musical gluttony! Of course. salvation is always an option… Scott: www.instagram.com/brighton Seann: www.instagram.com/johnny.pharaoh/ Amy: www.instagram.com/hipness_and_outrage/ Minutewax: https://minutewax.bandcamp.com/

Games! You said it, Amanda. Who’s Amanda? Don’t overthink it—all will become apparent as we move around the board, zoom through the levels, roll the D20 — what have you. I’m no game expert, so I recruit others to share their wisdom on the subject—get sidetracked by earrings and apricot brandy (again)---and did you know there’s a game called POETRY FREAKS, invented right here in town? Let’s bounce from shap to shap (that was for you, Star Trek nerds) and move along home, dodging the pitfalls, and letting chance take a swing at us! Find “Games are the Enemies of Beauty, Truth, and Sleep, Amanda Said” in GUILTY PLEASURES by Donald Barthelme: https://books.google.com/books/about/Guilty_Pleasures.html?id=nFHMYgEACAAJ&source=kp_book_description Poetry Freaks: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/451053/Poetry-Freaks Hoodwink: a version www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=game+hoodwink&mid=4F4680BFF350DCA0B8D04F4680BFF350DCA0B8D0&FORM=VIRE 6 DB and more: https://brightonstreetghosts.bandcamp.com/music Nina D’Arcangela https://spreadingthewritersword.com/ Angela Yuriko Smith https://substack.com/@angelayurikosmith Nerd Glows On (Seann McAnally) https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/13124/Nerd-Glows-On etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/shop/hipnessandoutrage/?etsrc=sdt my poetry https://www.amazon.com/Amy-Zoellers/e/B09Y2LKG8S?ref_=pe_1724030_132998060 games gaming

OK, cookie time! Take a break from your dance moves and have a cookie—that splodge of dough baked into a disk of pure love. And twice the wholesome goodness: TWO versions of the opening song! What a score! This episode’s cookie jar also brims with frantic encouragement from mid-20th-century cookbooks, a couple of urban legends, a heroine who loses her poise over a bag of chocolate chips, and SO MUCH COOKIE INSIGHT! I guarantee you’ll feel better . . . Plus: what’s Gilmore Girls got to do with it? Vote for your favorite version of this week’s opening song! INSTAGRAM ~ https://www.instagram.com/hipness_and_outrage?igsh=MTZ1b2phZmRva3pyag%3D%3D&utm_source=qr YOUTUBE ~ https://youtube.com/shorts/rqDqIVlEbXw?si=NQzUXHjvasL6_oQo ~ Also: more about the legendary Betty Crocker in Ep. 39 ~ To Shreds You Say ~ Betty Crocker's Cooky Book https://g.co/kgs/oevH2iX ~ American Cookie: The Snaps, Drops, Jumbles, Tea Cakes, Bars & Brownies That We Have Loved for Generations: A Baking Book https://g.co/kgs/8SfgtHz The King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion https://g.co/kgs/BTi8f26 ~ The King Arthur Flour 200th Anniversary Cookbook: Dedicated to the Pure Joy of Baking https://g.co/kgs/ufy7mWn ~ The I hate to cook book ~ Peg Bracken https://g.co/kgs/GgffqM2 ~ Buddy Holly ~ Ting A Ling https://youtu.be/Who10cHcJU4?si=q88t3jG25-hSDLiU ~ Ordeal in French Lipstick https://a.co/d/9IxhBuq ~ The Cookie Thief - Short Story (alltimeshortstories.com) ~ https://positivelyprobiotic.com/the-bacteria-blog/cookies-an-origin-story ~

Oh, cripes, it came out another love song! Get thee behind me, February! Anyhow, let’s talk puzzle boxes and dark circles under the eyes! History of Puzzle Boxes https://heartwood.com/blogs/history/history-of-puzzle-boxes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzle_box https://youtu.be/_NreYBwzRQk?si=as89wPmja-w_Af_u https://scariesthings.com/2023/08/15/mikes-review-puzzle-box-2023-popcord-frights-film-festival/ https://www.blondeupnorth.com/blog/eye-bags Takaritono https://youtu.be/eDMuCoc_6PE?si=qfFmjEx8GXRV4w59 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hipness_and_outrage?igsh=MTZ1b2phZmRva3pyag%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

February? Again?? Well, you asked for it. In the vote to select the tone of our latest Valentine’s-Day-Cometh episode, “DRIPPY ROMANTIC” soundly whomped “CYNICAL.” And so two insufferable lovebirds (-slash-songbirds) track the origin and soaring arc of their honey-bloated companionship across SIX SONGS written for each other and passed like notes in a junior high math class. This episode is STUFFED with love songs—a total chocolate box—can you handle it? You must. And yes, the opener IS a ghost story! PLUS: attention, all music-lovers, history-lovers, gamers and nerds: meet Seann McAnally, capable force in all of those areas–and a real dreamboat, too. What else do you want? (For CYNICAL Valentine’s Day content, do revisit episode 34, “Happy St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.” Then come right on back to episode 77 and gorge on SIX FREAKIN’ SONGS, all for you, my honey-lambs!) *LANGUAGE ALERT!* (just this once) https://www.instagram.com/podcast.in.a.minor?igsh=MWMzNHZicGN3aW9yYw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr https://minutewax.bandcamp.com/ https://johnnypharaoh.bandcamp.com/album/23?t=9 https://thefurandthefang.bandcamp.com/ https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/7601802.Seann_McAnally Poetry in Songwriting live stream with Angela Yuriko Smith https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xyqPfi59o3k https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher/13124/nerd-glows-on https://gooniesworldpodcast.podbean.com/ https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3ASeann+McAnally&s=relevancerank&text=Seann+McAnally&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1 ART WRAITHS: (songs of searing devotion) https://a.co/d/99oX9c7

AI art! I didn’t think much about it. Until I did. Snuggle up for a new weird song and one chick’s blatherings! * No artificial intelligence was involved in the making of this episode. Strictly human souls, maybe some ghosts. Human art: https://www.etsy.com/shop/hipnessandoutrage/?etsrc=sdt&load_webview=1&bid=dz7rro3kVTfQIwjRnwSrhmUcWg_P

***THE MANIC PIE EPISODE **** Thanksgiving, coming up! Let us celebrate with pie ~ pie tips, pie bliss, pie devotion, pie poetry! Embrace this American food-treasure that’s shorthand for love, comfort and tradition. Learn the secret, scrapped ending to “Dr. Strangelove”! Hands in the crust, and—go! Art of the Pie: A Practical Guide to Homemade Crusts, Fillings, and Life https://a.co/d/9OKEoFD Pie Every Day: Recipes and Slices of Life https://a.co/d/77tcxu9 Martha Stewart's New Pies and Tarts: 150 Recipes for Old-Fashioned and Modern Favorites: A Baking Book https://a.co/d/9NquQfd THANKSGIVING 101 (Holidays 101) https://a.co/d/cS36WT4 https://time.com/4344/a-la-mode-10-unforgettable-pie-scenes-in-movies/ Babylon ~ Don McLean https://youtu.be/4bnhhbV34nI?si=MF8_QCnyT-7K40Z5 Transfusion Poetica: Poems & Art Gallery https://a.co/d/8NNaJRX

In spite of the provoking title, this week’s episode embraces the “innocence” of bygone Halloweens—the bonfires! The fortune-telling! The little drunken ghosts! Enter if you dare! The Book of Halloween by Ruth Edna Kelley: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Book_of_Hallowe_en.html?id=semBAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&gboemv=1 The Book of American Traditions by Ruth Edna Kelley https://www.abebooks.com/9780517703120/Book-American-Traditions-Stories-Customs-0517703122/plp The Little Colonel’s Holidays https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40463 Meet Me in St. Louis https://g.co/kgs/cTLs9z

When life gets hectic and weird enough, you might forget who you are. Collect yourself of a Sunday and come along with me on some thrilling discovery, featuring spooky elementary schools, art with a death-mood, poetry, pumpkins and a dive-bombing bug! https://www.emporia.edu/documents/1851/1960-KMT-program.pdf https://www.heidehatry.com/icons_art.html. https://www.amazon.com/Haunted-Lawrence-America-Paul-Thomas/dp/1625859201 Heide Hatry : heads and tales : twenty-seven stories and twenty-seven portraits https://g.co/kgs/1f21jQ https://www.amazon.com/Icons-Ash-Portraits-Heide-Hatry/dp/1581771614/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1693367275&refinements=p_27%3AHeide+Hatry&s=books&sr=1-1 https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/wilderness-the-lost-writings-of-jim-morrison--volume-1_jim-morrison/252946/

It’s 3 o’clock. Where has your lover gone? Why so wicked and edgy? Why, indeed! When the British Invasion (1960s musical onslaught) slipped into my life on kitty-cat feet in the Summer of ‘86 ~ that was that. All of my questions were answered. And I was only eleven! Not bad! Life: solved! Here is my anthem thereto. Look Through Any Window (French version) https://youtu.be/YzLgTz9Sblc Dang Me (Hollies) https://youtu.be/59hKE9aGEaw ART WRAITHS (songs of searing devotion) https://a.co/d/eIcAqEY GET IN THERE BABY https://www.instagram.com/p/CdoVgYTOtCv/ HipnessAndOutrage - Etsy www.etsy.com/shop/HipnessAndOutrage?ref=condensed_trust_header_title_reviews Charlie Watts, the Unlikely Soul of the Rolling Stones www.nytimes.com/2021/08/24/arts/music/charlie-watts-rolling-stones.html The Encyclopedia of Dead Rock Stars: Heroin, Handguns, and Ham Sandwiches by Jeremy Simmonds https://a.co/d/5MNcL5C Chad & Jeremy: https://youtu.be/x2IIgGU2wkc Kinks: https://youtu.be/xIYzQfgGTZE

Oh my stars! What a weird freakin summer. Bizarro. Intriguing. Reflected in an opening song of unprecedented length!! Well, MY summer’s going weird, but rather than make a big deal out of it, let’s celebrate with some totally unhinged medieval paintings—more Unsettling Events from the Tacoma Public Library—and a few Fortean yarns chosen entirely according to the coolness of their names. That’s not weird. Here's My Collection Of Strange Art From Medieval Times | Bored Panda www.boredpanda.com/strange-art-from-medieval-times/?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic https://youtu.be/hw3CE04LGiA (Muttley’s laugh) 40 Funny Medieval Art Reactions That are So Real You See Your Entire Life www.theawesomedaily.com/40-funny-medieval-art-pictures/ Tacoma Public Library ~ Unsettling Events! Unsettling Events - Northwest Room Collections (oclc.org) Vinyl Vision! vinyl vision - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com Spurts! (short songs from Podcast in A Minor) https://minutewax.bandcamp.com/album/spurts-volume-1

Squonk—the saddest of all cryptids—don’t cry! You have your own unique beauty AND your own Cryptid Campfire episode of Podcast in A Minor! All is well. Huddle up to the campfire quick! before the storm hits—and we’ll tell the tales the lumberjacks told in 1910—just see if we don’t! Marshmallow me—we must sweeten the night for our sad little Squonk! www.pennlive.com/life/2023/03/what-is-a-squonk-pas-quaint-beast-cries-over-how-ugly-it-is.html https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/magical-mythical-beings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squonk https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=nebraskianapubs https://squonkapalooza.com/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1896/02/a-tear-bottle/635387/ https://www.poetryexplorer.net/poem.php?id=10032148 Genesis: Squonk https://youtu.be/TzL-up4ZKgI Steely Dan: Any Major Dude Will Tell You https://youtu.be/HBzzdlpISFg Daytym: Lachrymatory https://youtu.be/vuXTFX7ZrNM

Episode 50, huzzah! And this one has it all: a marshmallow soldier, champagne & absinthe, Ernest Hemingway, ancient glittering eyes, improvisational memory, a six-word tragedy, postwar Paris, and free-floating dysphoria! Strap in, children. It’s Happy First Anniversary to PODCAST IN A MINOR! https://www.liquor.com/recipes/death-in-the-afternoon/ de bene esse: Ernest Hemingway's mother reveals she cultivated the author's early writing talent (bulcranium.blogspot.com) Short Story - A Day’s Wait - by Ernest Hemingway - small.pdf (google.com) www.docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxtcnRzZW5nbGlzaGNsYXNzcm9vbXxneDo0NzUzMGMxNTFlM2M5OWY www.kansascity.com/news/your-kcq/article263213383.html The Paris Wife by Paula McLain www.amazon.com/Paris-Wife-Paula-McLain/dp/0345521315 Their Ancient Glittering Eyes by Donald Hall https://a.co/d/0ss0TWD

Oh no, rattlesnake dream! Vomit dreams—wolf dreams—dreams of mysterious corpses… how many times can you dream about Noel Gallagher before you hate yourself?—the original plan was to collect YOUR dreams to share, but perhaps another day! Another song! For now, a gathering of not-boring dream poems, and my 1991 romantic encounter with the poet Randall Jarrell. 8 Spiritual Meanings of Snakes in dreams: is it good luck? (angelicalbalance.com) www.mythicmedicine.love/shop www.bing.com/search?pglt=41&q=dream+songs+john+berryman&cvid=ae085098ad164b72a92b139519496c9f&aqs=edge.1.69i57j0l7.4739j0j1&FORM=ANNTA1&PC=U531 for the entire Randall Jarell poem A Girl in A Library— https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/25694/a-girl-in-a-library https://www.amazon.com/Amy-Zoellers/e/B09Y2LKG8S?ref_=pe_1724030_132998060

Shimmer on, you diamonds of Neptune! For the last week of National Poetry Month 2023, we search for the meaning of poetry — in the words of the poets — and it gets thrilling up in here! Go on, let the poetry have you. Let’s cram our faces with poetica!!! (it’s the one month we can do it without looking too weird) https://youtube.com/@hipnessoutrage6774 https://www.amazon.com/Amy-Zoellers/e/B09Y2LKG8S?ref_=pe_1724030_132998060 https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Poet_s_Glossary.html?id=1flJAQAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description https://www.digitalsurgeons.com/thoughts/creative/words-are-magic-the-power-of-language-over-our-minds/ https://medium.com/@lou.schuler/the-ancient-power-of-vulgar-language-d70bc697726e https://www.americanscientist.org/article/on-neptune-its-raining-diamonds

This episode might be a trainwreck, but it’s a trainwreck poetical. Happy National Poetry Month! And we indulge in an episode all about poetry forms—destined to be our most popular episode yet—with a song surrounding that villain of form, the villanelle. Ok, it’s not a villain at all. It’s actually a pretty fun puzzle to work as you try to say the thing you want to say. But National Poetry Month practically demands a little wordplay, and also, the weather got hot and the poet is exhausted from work and the post office, et al. So bear with this flipped-out episode with occasional hostility, sort of, and dig into some form!! https://www.amazon.com/stores/Amy-Zoellers/author/B09Y2LKG8S?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true https://sites.owu.edu/tropology/2020/11/25/bar-napkin-11/ https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Poet_s_Glossary.html?id=1flJAQAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description https://youtube.com/@hipnessoutrage6774