Episodes

Dave and Aaron were unable to find the time to record this week. So Aaron dug through the back catalogue of late Season 3 and the first half of Season 4 to compile this random collection of outtakes and bloopers. This episode...

Aaron and Dave spend the show discussing a day in the life... but not the classic rock song. Aaron's high school poem "Day" barely qualifies as a thought and yet the hosts spent way to much thought on this one. My Bad Poetry ...

Even with somewhat garbled moments Tate Lewis-Carroll's humor and wisdom comes through clearly and they share some pretty good "bad" poems with Aaron and Dave. Common splices, run on sentences, and a third thing, keep the par...

This week Nolcha Fox brings three poems that range in their... quality? Listen to Dave make the most random connection between Nolcha's poem "Gently Used" and the Greek myth of Pandora. Aaron talks about snot and dead caterpi...

This week's episode features three very different types of "bad" poems. Robert brings to the show: a poem he wants to change to flash fiction, a published poem that he considers "his worst", and a typical angsty poem that car...

Laurence brings to the show two rough drafts of works that they are still chipping at to find the statue within the stone... but don't think the poems sink on arrival! Follow Dave, Aaron, and Laurence through the murky curren...

Adrian dug through a box of loose leaf works to find poems that span a decade. From middle schooler to NYC apartment dweller, Adrian's previous contexts help pull back the curtain on poems full of mixed metaphors, Greek myths...

Aaron and Dave find themselves returning to where it all began... the thoughts of a "misunderstood" high schooler. They have walked these halls before and frankly any door would be a good exit from this failed philosophical f...

Aaron is late to recording and Dave is early to leave but Paul Lutter puts up with the both of them. While the hosts have had English teachers and college professors on the show, this is the first time they have had a college...

What do Dave and Aaron do when a fellow Les Misérables enthusiast and Luther Seminary alumn comes on the show? Talk about basically everything else. From the complex rhyme structures of limericks to the nuanced, highly sophis...

Aaron and Dave find themselves trying to solve the mystery of Candice Kelsey's Murdered worms and what else She Wrote about. From a red pocket folder emerge poems much like how worms appear on a sidewalk after a spring rain, ...

How do Dave and Aaron decide to get back into the habit after a long break from recording? They drag along a new friend! Alex Carrigan joins the co-hosts for the first episode of Season 4 and carries the show with his energy,...

Dave and Aaron receive a mysterious voicemail from a Ms. Roberta Spaghettio (who is definitely in no way Tiffany M Storrs). Roberta tries to clear up the pronunciation of a certain press to ...some success. Hear the definiti...

For their last guest episode of the season, Dave and Aaron get a master class on the evolution of poems from the amazing Julia Guez. Julia brings two examples of "bad" poems that have evolved over time through edits and revi...

Dave and Aaron had to do their best not to waste time because they had a precious 40 minutes to speak with the great Jared Beloff during his lunch break. While they would have been thrilled to spend the whole time talking ab...

From a concrete poem that might have benefited from it's own Hulk Smash to a emo-laced exploration of that thing called "Love," Michael VanCalbergh's high school poems live up to this show's title. Dave and Aaron find anoth...

Dave and Aaron breath a sigh of relief after finishing the final typed collection from Aaron's high school years. While there are still more episodes to come it felt like a good time to reflect and wrap up most of Season 3. ...

Just when you thought you had heard the last of the " Silence Saga ", the very end of high school Aaron's third anthology throws one more in the mix. An untitled poem musing on the need and lack of silence seems to be a fitt...

If the Silence Saga wasn't enough Aaron's previous self decided to write a second "My Words" without any acknowledgment of the first. Dave and Aaron work through this poem that seems to be reflecting on the Wolf journal entr...

Start of 2023 with a new blooper reel! Or maybe don't... We won't judge. Aaron and Dave continue to struggle with all things recording in this collection of gaffes, tangents, and conversations cut for time. Want to enjoy a r...

With the holidays and vacations, Dave and Aaron decided to try their hand at a new format for this special episode. With randomly generated words, chance styles, and five minutes the two co-hosts attempt to write poems for t...

Dr. MEH and us tell each other fairy tales... or really just share some bad poetry. Aaron and Dave are delighted to have Mathew E Henry on the show to share some of his first ever poems which were heavily influenced by the g...

When should a writer take the title and theme of their work as the best advice? Perhaps when they continue to work with "Silence." With a recording scheduled that spanned a week, Aaron and Dave return once more to the endle...

In this weeks episode Dave and Aaron talk a while on a perfect topic for an auditory medium like podcasting... silence. Dave channels his inner troll for his starter poem and Aaron's poetry feels like trolling in its own rig...