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Poking Around
By Poking AroundComedy
Poking Around episodes
- The Aliens Are Here
Featured poem: Murmuration by Nina Peláez. Featured topics: aliens, birds, instincts, safety, songs, and AI.
Poem read with permission from the author.
Send us your poems inspired by our topics: [email protected]
New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @pokingaroundpod + @hannahmonsour + @zoe.branch
55 min - We Need to Have a Family Meeting
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: [email protected]
New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @pokingaroundpod + @hannahmonsour + @zoe.branch
1 hr 11 min - The Dovegon
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: [email protected]
New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @pokingaroundpod + @hannahmonsour + @zoe.branch
58 min - The Dress
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: [email protected]
New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @pokingaroundpod + @hannahmonsour + @zoe.branch
1 hr 18 min - Identical Boy Twins
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 enneagram test.
Poem read with permission from the author.
Send us your poems inspired by our topics: [email protected]
New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @pokingaroundpod + @hannahmonsour + @zoe.branch
1 hr - Cow is Inappropriate
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: [email protected]
New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @pokingaroundpod + @hannahmonsour + @zoe.branch
1 hr 3 min - Green Card Marry Your Cousin
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: [email protected]
New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @pokingaroundpod + @hannahmonsour + @zoe.branch
1 hr 2 min - Future Tripping ft. Allie Lawrence
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: [email protected]
New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @pokingaroundpod + @hannahmonsour + @zoe.branch
1 hr 9 min - Future Tripping ft. Allie Lawrence
Featured poem: My Sentimental Afternoon by Leila Chatti. Featured topics: balloons, birthday, springtime, the future, dirty talk, exercise, balloons, and subway platforms.
Poem read with permission from the author.
Send us your poems inspired by our topics: [email protected]
New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @pokingaroundpod + @hannahmonsour + @zoe.branch
1 hr 9 min - Mary and Joseph Are Running Out of Time (ft. Molly Hackett)
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 our topics: [email protected]
New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @pokingaroundpod + @hannahmonsour + @zoe.branch
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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.