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Poking Around
By Poking AroundComedy
Poking Around episodes
- Limitations of Language
Featured poem: The Quiet World by Jeffrey McDaniel. Featured topics: porn star martinis, the economies and limitations of language, French people, what it means to love, uses for AI, and ridiculous advertising emails.
Poem read with permission from the author.
Theme song by Allegra Ritchie.
Send us your poems inspired by our topics: [email protected]
New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @pokingaroundpod + @hannahmonsour + @zoe.branch
56 min - Your Mama
Featured poem: The Silence by Nin Andrews. Featured topics: boredom, summer, prank calls, your mama jokes, baby jokes, youth.
Poem read with permission from the author.
Theme song by Allegra Ritchie.
Send us your poems inspired by our topics: [email protected]
New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @pokingaroundpod + @hannahmonsour + @zoe.branch
55 min - Buy Women Lunch
Featured poem: I Paid an Etsy Witch $14.86 for Better Luck by Elise Powers. Featured topics: witchcraft, magic, science, our glorious 30s, Book Con, and sexy stuff.
Poem read with permission from the author.
Theme song by Allegra Ritchie.
Send us your poems inspired by our topics: [email protected]
New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @pokingaroundpod + @hannahmonsour + @zoe.branch
56 min - Clothing, Weapons, Tomatoes, Love
Featured poem: Tomatoes by Joy Sullivan
Featured topics: food, being a chef, gardening, love, grandmothers, dreams, clothing, weapons, gender.
Poem read with permission from the author.
Theme song by Allegra Ritchie.
Send us your poems inspired by our topics:
New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @pokingaroundpod + @hannahmonsour [email protected]
48 min - Fulton Street Panic
Featured poem: The Problem with Early Warnings by Charles Rafferty. Featured topics: live action CGI adaptations, tornadoes, the ethics of joy, the colonization of the mind, quarterly Gap runs, shitting your pants, and a Zohran Mamdani check.
Poem read with permission from the author.
Theme song by Allegra Ritchie.
Send us your poems inspired by our topics: [email protected]
New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @pokingaroundpod + @hannahmonsour + @zoe.branch
59 min - Same Shirt From The Gap
Featured poem: Virgins by Natasha Oladokun. Featured topics: Mary and Jesus, Museums, Bisexuality, Art, The Gap, Project Hail Mary
Poem read with permission from the author.
Theme song by Allegra Ritchie.
Send us your poems inspired by our topics: [email protected]
New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @pokingaroundpod + @hannahmonsour + @zoe.branch
53 min - Not Even Geriatric
Featured poem: Waiting for Happiness by Nomi Stone. Featured topics: golden retrievers, watermelon seeds, Facebook, and the gynecologist.
Poem read with permission from the author.
Theme song by Allegra Ritchie.
Send us your poems inspired by our topics: [email protected]
New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @pokingaroundpod + @hannahmonsour + @zoe.branch
1 hr 8 min - Babies Can't Drink Water
Featured poem: Baby by Regina Avendaño. Featured topics: turning thirty, cavities, immigration, womanhood, babyhood, edibles, planes, birds diving into pavement.
Excerpt read with permission from the author.
Send us your poems inspired by our topics:
New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @pokingaroundpod + @hannahmonsour + @zoebranch
1 hr 9 min - Hello We Have Returned
Featured poem: While in a Zoom Meeting Regarding the Work Stoppage Set to Begin Tomorrow at 5 a.m. by Ayokunle Falomo. Featured topics: annoyance, singing, embarrassment, gluttony, and the Catholic church.
Poem read with permission from the author.
Theme song by Allegra Ritchie
Send us your poems inspired by our topics: [email protected]
New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @pokingaroundpod + @hannahmonsour + @zoe.branch
52 min - Christmas Eve Eve
Featured poem: Carol by Ishion Hutchinson
Poem read with permission from the author.
Theme song by Allegra Ritchie
Send us your poems inspired by our topics: [email protected]
New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @pokingaroundpod + @hannahmonsour + @zoe.branch
1 hr 2 min
About Poking Around
From the publisher's feed
Join hosts Hannah Monsour and Zoe Branch as they joke around about poems and poem around about jokes. Both professional poets and amateur comedians, the artists explore the funny and the profound —…
often in the same breath. Each episode includes two new poems written on the spot and read based on themes explored in the episode.