The Crane Bag Podcast

By Jay LeemingArts Performing Arts

The Crane Bag Podcast episodes

July 29, 2025 Robert Frost: "Directive"
An exploration of Robert Frost's poem "Directive" by poet, storyteller, and musician Jay Leeming.

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30 min
July 22, 2025 Oisin in the Land of Tir Na Nog
The epic of the Irish hero Finn MacCool (Fionn MacCumhail) comes to a close in this story brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming.

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1 hr 1 min
July 15, 2025 Emily Dickinson: "I heard a fly buzz when I died"
An exploration of Emily Dickinson's poem "I heard a fly buzz when I died" by poet, storyteller and musician Jay Leeming.

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24 min
July 08, 2025 James Wright: "Goodbye to the Poetry of Calcium"
An exploration of James Wright's poem "Goodbye to the Poetry of Calcium" by poet, storyteller, and musician Jay Leeming.

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20 min
June 24, 2025 The Iliad Part Seven: the Greeks Arrive at Troy
When the Greek army arrives at Troy they encounter Cygnus, the indestructible man, and wrestle with the prophecy of Calchas which says that the first man to step ashore will be the first to die.

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1 hr 9 min
June 10, 2025 Rumi: "The Diver's Clothes Lying Empty"
An exploration of the poem "The Diver's Clothes Lying Empty" by Jalal al-Din Rumi, as translated by Coleman Barks.

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37 min
May 27, 2025 The Iliad, Part Six: Achilles Among the Dancing Girls
Before you go to war, it's probably best to spend a year living as a dancing girl on the island of Skyros. That's the wisdom which this beautiful story brings to us, just in time for us to put on our own dancing shoes and sing our way into the deepening wilderness of this epic brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming.

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55 min
May 13, 2025 Just Another Day Getting Struck by Lightning with Frank O'Hara
An exploration of the poems "To the Harbormaster" and "The Day Lady Died" by Frank O'Hara.

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20 min
April 29, 2025 The Iliad Part Five: The Horse Sacrifice
When I got to the whispering forest and the dark I thought of the sacrifice of the horse, and how it bound us to the god of the sea and the way the horse's nostrils flared and later by the fire the branches devoured by flame seemed wrinkled ancestors confessing their bright crimes to the rain.

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1 hr 7 min
April 15, 2025 Steve Scafidi Interview: "What if Faulkner is Wrong and We Do Not Endure or Prevail"
An interview with the poet Steve Scafidi, who reads his poem "What if Faulkner is Wrong and We Do Not Endure or Prevail" and discusses laughter, oblivion, religion, high school, and poetry with host Jay Leeming.

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32 min