My Bad Poetry
Summary: Aaron and Dave dive into an old private journal to read poems written in high school. Along the way the two have found themselves joined by some incredibly amazing people, all willing to share some of their own bad poetry. Experience a mix of self-reflection, humor, self-deprecation, great conversations and just maybe a half decent poem!
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Aaron and Dave encounter a love poem so cliché they basically talked about similar songs for an hour and just remembered they were doing a podcast near the end. My Bad Poetry Episode 2.3: "Love" End Poem by a Real Poet: "The Definition of Love" by Andrew Marvell 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 may have been tempted to skip this one. Discussions around shame and purity culture seek to understand the root cause of this bad poem. My Bad Poetry Episode 2.2: "Tempt Me Not" End Poem from a True Poet: "Running Water" by Alfonsina Storni translated by Muna Lee 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 return from a short break to discuss the season ahead. Hear all the titles found in "Thoughts of a Boy...and other sad stories" and wonder with us... are any of them good? Will any of the rhyme? A new seasons awaits! Have your own bad poetry from the past? Join the conversation! Email a snap shot of the page or a recording of you reading it allowed and Dave and I may feature it on the show. End Poem from a True Poet: "Vacation End" by Leslie Pinckney Hill 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
A "Season One: Thoughts of a Misunderstood" bonus episode with a some cut stuff from the second half of the year. Hopefully you can enjoy and laugh along the stuff that wasn't good enough or too tangential for the edited episodes (and you've heard the what's made it in so you know what you are getting into). See "Thanksgiving Leftovers" for the first round of rough takes and mistakes. We will see you with new full episodes soon! 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 the end of the first batch of poems from the Wolf Journal and decide to put a proverbial bow on it. Aaron reveals the title his former teenage self gave to a Word document "anthology" containing all these poems, as well as shows Dave the Microsoft Paint title page created for the project. Truly this finale is "pulp-full" of everything you could ever hope for or need... even Aaron's dog gets a short shake of a cameo around the 18 minute mark. My Bad Poetry 1.24 "Season One Finale" End Poem from a Real Poet: "I'm Nobody! Who are you? (260)" by Emily Dickinson 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
Teenager Aaron's pretentious title does more to confound and confuse Dave than perhaps any previous poem on this podcast. Assumptions are questioned, friendships challenged, and no solutions are found. My Bad Poetry Episode 23: "Epilogue to a Prologue" End Poem from a Real Poet: "For a Poet" by Countee Cullen 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
While looking for the right words to write. Aaron decided the right approach was to write. Was he right about writing? Or writing about the right thing? You alone may hold the key to rightly deciphering this writing. Also Dave and Aaron get a little side tracked on musicals. But who wouldn't when you have Aaron's old high school poetry as your primary source for discussion? My Bad Poetry Episode 1.22: The Key End Poem from a Real Poet: "My Song" by Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. 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
Are the words of a 16 year old boy from 2006 so true and pure and passionate that no mortal tongue could possibly read them correctly??? Well Aaron's previous self sure thought so. Judge for yourself, as Dave and Aaron try to interpret the uninterpretable, unreadable words of Aaron that were indeed (unfortunately) his own. My Bad Poetry Episode 1.21 "My Words" Cited Essay: "Against Interpretation" by Susan Sontag (1964) End Poem from a True Poet: "Poetry" by Marianne Moore (1919) 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
Reading a poem from January 31st 2006, Dave and Aaron try to sympathize with a now 16-year-old Aaron's identity crisis. Who knew being old enough to drive could rattle the soul so much? My Bad Poetry Episode 20 End Poem from a Real Poet- "Where is the Poet?" by Yone Noguchi 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
What do you do when you find a string of poems so similar they aren't worth an episode. You take the string and make a nice bow! As we wrap up the year, we hope this episode isn't too....off putting. My Bad Poetry Episode 19: Holiday Special (Seven Poems Wrapped into One) End Poem from a Real Poet: "One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII" by Pablo Neruda, translated by Mark Eisner 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
A fifteen-year old Aaron lamented that these words would not be heard. Dave and Aaron may lament the opposite... My Bad Poetry Episode 18: Poem of 12/19/05 (These Words...) End Poem from a Real Poet: "Life of a Writer" by Jalynn Harris Video Essay referenced in the Audio Footnote: "Who's afraid of Lil Nas X?" by Khadija Mbowe 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
After Dave and Aaron have multiple hitches and setbacks in scheduling and recording...they call in a sub. Our first Special Guest episode featuring a poem not from Aaron or the Wolf journal! My Bad Poetry Episode 17: Beyond the Binding: Poem from Fall 2006 End Poem from a Real Poet: "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou 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's 15-year-old self was pulling out all the clichés to express an infatuation. Dave is pulling out all his hair trying to hold back his frustration... For those of you with discerning ears...technical issues meant Dave had to rejoin the call half way through on his phone dropping the sound quality just a bit. My Bad Poetry Episode 16: 12/05/05 End "Poem" from a Real Poet: Color and Light by Stephen Sondheim 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 no new episode being recorded this week, here is some leftover content from the first batch of episodes. Extended cuts from conversations too-off-the-rails or nerdy for the streamline, concise, and always on-point conversations you have come to know and love. Served alongside many ads from our bathroom/childcare break sponsors. From Dave and Aaron- Happy Thanksgiving! And a Blessed/Restful start to your Holiday season. Look for a New Regular Episode Dec. 6th. 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 you haven't rage quite on us yet, have we got a show for you! Dave and Aaron discuss the second of three poems from December 5th 2005. My Bad Poetry Episode 15 "Rage" End Poem from a Real Poet: "Hatred" by Gwendolyn Bennett 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
