poetry performance

Prepare for your mind to stretch and your soul to fill. Here’s part 2 of our poetry slam episode. Just a heads up and trigger warning - part of this material is raw, sweary and contains descriptions of sexual assault.

Thanks to our slammers: Kathy D, Nathan, Woody Rooster, Sennen Una Johnson, Lily, The Blonde Butterfly, Louise Stuart Daisy, Jay Mitra (our 2022 winner)

Thoughts on superstition from Hypatia, first documented female mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. Born 350-370––died 415 AD.

Song 1: Step On a Crack, written and performed by John V. Modaff (harmonica Dave Merrill, piano/synth Jonathan Modaff)

Poem 1: “After Reading the News this Morning, I Turn to the Curses of My Ancestors: A Found Poem” by Susan Aizenberg from her chapbook First Light (Gilbraltar Editions, 2020). Susan hails from Iowa City, IA. susanaizenberg.wordpress.com

Novel excerpt: “The Séance” from Death of a Department Chair by Lynn C. Miller. University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. https://www.lynncmiller.com/book/death-of-a-department-chair/

Feed the Cat Break, music by John V. Modaff

Poem 2: “Old Matthew’s Last Words,” adapted from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The House of the Seven Gables, 1851.

Song 2: Where You Going? Written and performed by John V. Modaff

Episode artwork by Lynda Miller 

Theme, background and incidental music by John V. Modaff 
The Unruly Muse is recorded in Albuquerque NM and Morehead KY. Produced at The Creek Studio. 

NEXT UP: The Unruly Muse #14: “Dreams”

To our listeners the world over: please tell a friend about the podcast! Thank you.  Lynn & John