May 28, 2021
Some poems take multiple passes, a lot of tinkering and thought, to take the shape of something I'd dare share with the world. Others just kind of flow out of the pen onto the page and I like them just as they are.
This week, it's the latter. This Untitled Inspiration Poem just poured out recently as I stood in my...
May 22, 2021
I wrote this week's poem many years ago, and reading it through this week in prep for recording the episode, it struck me again how much it would work as a song. I mean, it needs a chorus stuck in there, but that's an easy enough retrofit. You'll also notice if you're reading along in Blue., from which the poem comes,...
May 15, 2021
More inane absurdity for your ears this week, thanks to an old can of wood stain I found while cleaning out the painting supplies for the local high school's theatre department. You can find it all over my social media (tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram - Insta is where a lot of my new poetry shows up these days, in...
May 7, 2021
Hey, Internet - well, hey: Rob's fraught relationship with the Internet! I wrote a poem about you!
A brief poem this week that some of you might find a little too familiar for comfort. All I can say is: Same.
You know the drill:
I want to hear what you think of the podcast, whether it's a specific poem or the format, or...
May 2, 2021
Coming at you from the earliest parts of the 21st century comes this poem of the time the clouds hung low in the skies over my place of business and the Good Year Blimp waddles past on its way from one sporting event to another. As I say in the episode, it's one of my oldest poems that has stood the test of time -...