Poking Around

Featured poem: The Good News by Joseph Fasano. Featured topics: the NYC mayoral primary, mental health, resurrection, baptism cloths, sharpies, and vandalism. Poem read with permission from the author.  Send us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingaroundpod@gmail.com New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠pokingaroundpod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ + @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠hannahmonsour⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ + @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠zoe.branch⁠⁠

Featured poem: Oh My God I Miss You by Jeremy Radin. Featured topics: Materialists, age gap relationships, pigeon racing, yearning, Hannah’s Papa, Oura rings as wedding bands, cross country,  and things that are dorky.  Poem read with permission from the author.  Send us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingaroundpod@gmail.com New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠pokingaroundpod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Featured poem: When I Can't Sleep, I Google How the World Ends by Candace Kronen. Featured topics: the viral dress (2015), the end of so many worlds, black holes, Nova television programming circa 2003, Lorde, cheating, expulsion, and being a teenager. Poem read with permission from the author. Send us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingaroundpod@gmail.com New episode every Tuesday! Foll...

Featured poem: What is a Country but a Borderless Sentence by Maya Salameh Featured topics: the fiction of borders, the refusal of direct interpretation, the parallels between (of course) Louisiana and Lebanon, the world functioning as a poem rather than prose, the grammar police, adult identical twins, getting left out because you can’t have a crush on your brother, orphan narratives, and the enn...

Featured poem: Colorado lll by Peyton Fleming. Featured topics: edibles, camping, hometowns, claiming a space, and sexy yoga. Poem read with permission from the author. Send us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingaroundpod@gmail.com New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠pokingaroundpod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ + @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠hannahmonsour⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ + @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠zoe.branch⁠⁠

Featured poem: when faces called flowers float out of the ground by e.e. cummings  Featured topics: springtime, caged birds vs birds (uncaged), the copywriters who get to name the nail polish colors, the sun baby from Teletubbies, blonde adults, cousins, marriage, and green cards.  Send us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingaroundpod@gmail.com New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠pok...

Featured poem: My Sentimental Afternoon by Leila Chatti. Featured topics: college, dirty talk, subway platform as dating app, balloons, birthdays, and the wonderful season of springtime. Poem read with permission from the author. Send us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingaroundpod@gmail.com New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠pokingaroundpod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ + @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠hannahmonsour⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ + @...

Featured poem: Typewritten Excerpt by Molly Hackett. Featured topics: moths, imperfection, the distance between should and is, The Suite Life of Zach and Cody Christmas Specials, our personal God concepts, and the extremely questionable and upsetting report from on high regarding apparent the age gap between Mary and Jospeh. Poem read with permission from the author. Send us your poems inspired by...

Featured poem: The Question by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. Featured topics: the path of love, mold, B health ratings, lazy advertising, being hangry, and the age-old human vs creation dichotomy and divide.  Poem read with permission from the author. Send us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingaroundpod@gmail.com New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠pokingaroundpod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ + @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠hanna...

Featured poem: I am now personally developed by Jordan Shea Page. Featured topics: Karl Marx, to-do lists, acts of becoming, and the haunting unknowability of the man who is your best friend's boyfriend. Poem read with permission from the author. Send us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingaroundpod@gmail.com New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠pokingaroundpod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ + @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠han...

Featured poem: Love Poem by Nick Martino Featured topics: birthdays, drugs, Disney World, Easter, and a really problematic thing that the Duff Sisters did. Poem read with permission from the author. Send us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingaroundpod@gmail.com New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠pokingaroundpod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ + @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠hannahmonsour⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ + @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠zoe.branch⁠⁠

Featured poem: For arson by Fatema Alzari. Featured topics: little sisters, birthday party outfits, blonde adults, and Mandy Moore. Poem read with permission from the author. Send us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingaroundpod@gmail.com New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠pokingaroundpod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ + @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠hannahmonsour⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ + @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠zoe.branch⁠⁠

Episode re-air in remembrance of Zoe's Boppa, who passed away this year on the first day of spring. <3 Featured poem: Two Limericks by Boppa (aka Zoe's 94-year-old grandfather, aka Tom Branch). Featured topics: tit for tat, end of life arrangements, typewriters, old lady-isms, and turning 21. New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠pokingaroundpod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ + @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠hannahmonsour⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ +...

Featured poem: City Lake by Chelsea DesAutels. Featured topics: cruise vibes, colonization, lakes, fishing, frogs, geese, mercy, and the way it's better to have loved and lost than not to have loved at all. Poem read with permission from the author. Send us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingaroundpod@gmail.com New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠pokingaroundpod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ + @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠hann...

Featured poem: Cloudy with a Chance of Chapstick by Lancee Whetman  Featured topics: how mermaids are made, dating apps, pucker fish, subway screens, how to put a chocolate chip inside a raspberry, moomoo, and dolphins. Poem read with permission from the author. Send us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingaroundpod@gmail.com New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠pokingaroundpod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ +...

Featured poem: To Revolt is to Insist on Joy by Nur Turkmani.  Featured topics:  International Women’s Day, voice notes, quitting, dads, M&M’s as a wartime candy, the M&M store, mini M&M’s, peanut butter M&M’s, and the green M&M’s sexy knee high white pleather boots. Poem read with permission from the author. Send us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingaroundpod@gmail.com...

Featured poem: For those who have been waiting Kelly Grace Thomas.  Featured topics: the loud button of want, quitting, colors, sidekicks, time as a circular concept, and Timothee Chalamet (ft. a bunch of ideas and tips about being a creative person in active pursuit of a practice / dream)  (Sorry for our bumping around in this one I don’t know what we girls were doing.) Poem read with permission...

Featured poem: Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost. Featured topics: the family tree of poetry and comedy, the Gold Rush, how to invest your hard-earned money in different precious metals, time travel, the Dark Ages, and greenwashing. Poem is in the public domain. Send us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingaroundpod@gmail.com New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠pokingaroundpod⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Featured poem: This is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams. Featured topics: bus dynamics, suspension stories, selfish men, plums, ice boxes, leftover etiquette, and the speed of smell. "This is Just to Say," by William Carlos Williams, from THE COLLECTED POEMS: VOLUME I, 1909-1939, copyright ©1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp...

Featured poem: Acknowledgements by Franny Choi.  Featured topics: minivans, sarcasm, big fish in small ponds, teeth, touch, and near death experiences.  Poem read with permission from Alice James Books.  Send us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingaroundpod@gmail.com New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠pokingaroundpod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ + @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠hannahmonsour⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ + @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠zoe.branch⁠⁠

Featured poem: This Too Shall Pass by Molly Hackett Featured topics: Graffiti, tunnel people, seasonal depression, curses, a bunch of religious and mythological stuff, and Tumblr (2011). Poem read with permission from the author Send us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingaroundpod@gmail.com New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠pokingaroundpod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ + @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠hannahmonsour⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ + @ ⁠...

Featured poem: Object Permanence by Nicole Sealey. Featured topics: travel, castles, cousins, love, tiers, and a crucial hard launch. Poem read with permission from the author Send us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingaroundpod@gmail.com New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠pokingaroundpod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ + @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠hannahmonsour⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ + @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠zoe.branch⁠⁠

Featured poem:  Every Time I Change My Mind About Dying, I Have to Convince My Body by Hieu Minh Nguyen. Featured topics: headaches, high school sweethearts, bucket lists, cliff jumping, medical commercials, and the unspeakable thing between two ends. Poem read with permission from the author Send us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingaroundpod@gmail.com New episode every Tuesday! Follow us...

Featured poem: Evolution by Emily Jungmin Yoon Featured topics: New years, the French, the failures of language, deep sea creatures, and the unknowable realm of construction terminology. Poem read with permission from the author Send us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingaroundpod@gmail.com New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠pokingaroundpod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ + @ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠hannahmonsour⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ + @ ⁠...

Featured poem: I hope this finds you by Raquel Franco Featured topics: Wicked the movie musical, hope and/or cautious optimism, manifestation, the celebrity of being a teenager, the personal trend of the sweater vest, painting the walls, dopamine decor, and writing secret things on folded pieces of paper. Poem read with permission from the author Send us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingar...