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

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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!

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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 

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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

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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.

My Bad Poetry Episode 1.22: The Key

End Poem from a Real Poet: "My Song" by Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. 

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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