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Poking Around
By Poking AroundComedy
Poking Around episodes
- The Summer House Vaseline Oasis at Bravo Con
Featured poem: A Jelly-Fish by Marianne Moore. Featured topics: immortality, trains, insurance, and the great wide world of reality television.
Poem is in the public domain.
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 9 min - No Chewing Allowed
Featured poem: Mudlarking by Rebecca Faulkner. Featured topics: ghosts, sisters, childhood, nostalgia, yearning, holiday markets, righteousness, and chocolate.
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 10 min - Thanksgiving Special
Featured poem: Success by Bessie Anderson Stanley. Featured topics: living, laughing, loving, succeeding, being grateful, and of course, an egg's benediction.
Poem in the public domain.
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 5 min - Dollar Coin Wish
Featured poem: At the bar, C calls me lonely, like actually" by Loisa Fenichell
Featured topics: childhood friends, spinsters, vending machines, wishing wells, longing, and Apple Pay.
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 1 min - The Papaya
Featured poem: Braintree by Kristina Percy. Featured topics: motherhood, fig wasps, the wisdom of children, brains, fruits, and Hannah's 2020 confusion.
Poem read with permission from the author, part of her new collection, Both True.
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 10 min - Roaches Vote Twice
Featured poem: Cockroach by Jenny Qi. Featured topics: ELECTION DAY!, Las Vegas, language bastardization, pigeon nests, voter fraud, and ice cream lines.
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 14 min - Doggy Dog World
Featured poem: Incunabula, Mother Tongue by Max McDonough. Featured topics: insomnia, idioms, language, mothers, witches, shame, and the way that love is at the center of everything.
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 11 min - Invasive Species
Featured poem: I Nominate the Linden to Continue Its Service As Tree of Longing & Aromatic Futility by Alina Stefanescu. Featured topics: trees, nationality, invasive species, affairs, shame, romantic tropes, and siblings.
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 11 min - Haunted AMC
Sorry this episode is echoey! Join us in the tunnel chamber of poem creation :)
Featured poem: A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe. Featured topics: sand, dreams, the ocean tormenting the shore, swim team, movie theater nostalgia, and being bottomless.
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 3 min - First Timers
Featured poem: The World Has Not Been Cruel to Him Yet by Allison Mei-Li. Featured topics: sweetie pie little boys, gender, camp, and drug experiences with friends.
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 6 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.