Riddle me this, my brother—Riddles! Can you handle it? The car-ride quip of a Favorite Anonymous Artist births a song that is a riddle unto itself! Plus, we explore an Ancient Greek riddle, The Riddler’s riddles from Batman, and a few sinister detective riddles from Granddad’s lamp-table copy of Reader’s Digest! And finally—are you the die-hard fan who can solve the riddle of the lost Podcast in A Minor episode, and its connection to the last verse of the opening song?

https://www.rd.com/list/detective-riddles/

https://steemit.com/whalepower/@watch-chronolog/riddler-s-riddles-answers

Well, as another National Poetry Month dwindles to a close, we take a deep lungful of Surrealist love poetry—with this weird love song! What better anniversary gift for the man who has it all—the wrist bones, the eyes, the eyelash mites…oh! So romantic. We drink ‘em right in, along with love poems from Surrealist masters — AND from your podcast host! Love songs for Weirdos—and it’s not even February!

AND check out a new episode of Poetry Freaks the Podcast—wherever you get your podcasts!

https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/098710.html&title=Three+Poems+from+Surrealist+Love+Poems&desc=+-+Poems+by+Jacques-Bernard+Brunius,+Paul+Eluard+and+Joyce+Mansour+in+English+translation

https://allpoetry.com/Lady-Love

Andre Breton’s Manifesto of Surrealism

https://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil330/MANIFESTO%20OF%20SURREALISM.pdf

Poets tell lies? What?? Philosopher Plutarch sure thought so! And occasionally, Bjork! “Many lies the poets tell” said the philosopher—-We’ll dig into all that–AND revisit the 1989 film of films, Say Anything. It’s still National Poetry Month! WOOOT and huzzah!

Poets Lie when They Cry—-Plutarch

https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2015/09/21/before-you-read-a-poem-know-that-poets-are-liars-plutarch/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CFirst%20of%20all%2C%20it%20is,some%20willingly%2C%20and%20others%20unwillingly.

https://firstthings.com/the-poets-tell-many-lies/

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69375/the-defence-of-poesy

Bjork and the Television

https://blog.ourstage.com/2013/11/19/bjorks-theory-of-television/

Joe Lies When he Cries

https://www.moviescriptsandscreenplays.com/johncusack/scripts/sayanything.txt#:~:text=Corey%20continues%20her%20song%20as,about%20you.%20They're%20all%20about

Plutarch: How to Study Poetry

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/Quomodo_adolescens*.html

Where did my vase of 100 pens go? It vanished! Was it burglars? Phroggers? Or did I stash it in the fridge in a poetic haze? OR did the ghosts desperately need pens to write their unearthly sonnets? This episode contains TWO songs on the subject—on autoharp--and will the vase ever reappear? A National Poetry Month mystery!

Writers and their favorite tools

https://lithub.com/writers-and-their-favorite-tools/

https://medium.com/the-coil/writers-favorite-pens-291dfe5b677f

National Poetry Month charges headlong into our hearts with a lost poem about a lemon cake—which leads us down the winding path from lost poetry to found poetry to cut-up poetry to Surrealist Automatism to 7-Up Cake! Grab your poetry hat, let’s go!!

Transfusion Poetica

https://a.co/d/0gy2iYMu

7-Up Cake

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/234867/7-up-cake/

How to Write Found Poetry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuZlMBtVwdM

Surrealist Automatism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealist_automatism

Johnson’s Dictionary 

https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=plaintive

To Make a Dadaist Poem

https://www.google.com/search?q=tristan+tzara+to+make+a+dadaist+poem&oq=tristan+tzara+to+make+a+d&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCAgBEAAYFhgeMgYIABBFGDkyCAgBEAAYFhgeMggIAhAAGBYYHjIKCAMQABiABBiiBDIHCAQQABjvBTIHCAUQABjvBdIBCDU5NDJqMGo3qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#sv=CAMSZxowKg5hbWR5ckRpelZQbDFnTTIOYW1keXJEaXpWUGwxZ006Dk9XdEhNR0tkb3EyX2FNIAQqLwobX1ZmbWNhWkM3RTVHenF0c1B6X0NWOFFFXzk4Eg5hbWR5ckRpelZQbDFnTRgAMAEYByCkh6b4DjACSggQAhgCIAIoAg

What are the ingredients of poetry? National Poetry Month 2026 is here at last, so we’d best find out! Well, the ingredients of poetry are legion, but lets start with culture and dreams! Complicated front-yard gardens…dreams about jobs long abandoned…Kansas City as old-movie shorthand for “sleaze”….and a little more Rilke!!

Poet’s Bowl

https://a.co/d/04KNi5Bs

Hot Breakfast Coffee

https://a.co/d/07bAN9nH

Poetry Hats

https://a.co/d/0iA0OQ2R

Sweater Poems

https://a.co/d/0fXidaJE

Best of Rilke

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/288587-the-best-of-rilke-72-form-true-verse-translations-with-facing-originals

The third time Phyllis saw him she exploded!!! What did THAT sculpture look like? Was the summer rather light on Podcast in A Minor episodes? That’s because I broke a little bone in my foot in June, and my healing leaned heavily on old 20th-century horror flicks—one of which germinated into this song! More importantly, National Poetry Month 2026 is right outside the door! Wiping her feet, ringing the doorbell! We celebrate her nearness with a look at “beatnik” poets in the popular culture. It’s one dreamy wonderland in here, cats. Yeah.

beat poets in tv and movies

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls079682707/

A Bucket of Blood

https://www.tcm.com/articles/179096/a-bucket-of-blood\

The Munsters Poetry Party

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7WH_pxtWPU

So I Married an Axe Murderer—poem scene

https://youtu.be/Qae03boj7lU?si=7jG_0yDpm4uova34

Ahh, the glamorous life of a substitute teacher! The twisting, turning, wholly unfamiliar hallways! The shame of mispronouncing a name! Settle in for substitute horror stories, sub-versive poetry, and a favorite cartoon substitute and her dollhouse murders!

Substitute Horror Stories

https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/13zx6c4/lets_hear_your_substitute_horror_stories/

It’s the second of two Fridays the 13th in a row! And one more to come this year! Will plague and tragedy ensue?? Enjoy this sinister little minor holiday with an impromptu little song, superstitious icons, eerie books to read, a Friday the 13th dinner menu, and several odd ways to thwart the bad luck! Ahh, memories of those 13-cent donuts on Fridays the 13th gone by!

Friday the 13th Reads

https://www.kensingtonbooks.com/13-chilling-reads-for-friday-the-13th/

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-read-down/13-spooky-books-for-the-unluckiest-day-of-the-year/

Friday the 13th Party Food

https://www.romper.com/life/friday-the-13th-dinner-ideas-recipes

Counteract bad luck on Friday the 13th

https://www.farmersalmanac.com/13-ways-to-improve-your-luck-this-friday-the-13th

The future is oatmeal! And so is the past! It’s time for oatmeal whimsy---starring Oatmeal Hero Wilford Brimley, Alton Brown’s Emergency Oatmeal Kit, and what’s this? A 2014 horror movie with an oatmeal-ish theme! Jackpot!

Weird oatmeal

https://fatfreevegan.com/slowmiracle/2016/10/25/my-favorite-weird-oatmeal/

Mr. Breakfast

https://www.mrbreakfast.com/recipe_collection.asp?subcategoryid=7

Alton Brown’s Emergency Oatmeal Kit

https://www.tastingtable.com/1233302/alton-browns-coffee-maker-hack-for-flavorful-instant-oatmeal/

7 Reasons Oatmeal Is A Good for You Superfood

https://www.gaiaherbs.com/blogs/seeds-of-knowledge/oatmeal-good-for-you?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=23458035541&utm_content=&utm_term=&tw_source=google&tw_adid=&tw_campaign=23458035541&tw_kwdid=&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23453496185&gbraid=0AAAAA9msPkUZW3hZHnXmjRuDEkyS9rx_O&gclid=CjwKCAiAv5bMBhAIEiwAqP9GuBmaFy8Q8hKqB_MtygkwJkfehTln-YigKa3vGb4XJdNvdkOhqQ8dWRoC3eYQAvD_BwE

Oatmeal Man

https://hellnotes.com/20675/