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Poetry on Tape 9.5.25

The pope, anime, walleyes, call-in live rap, gravity's rainbow and more all on today's show

Josh Datko

May 09, 2025

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We started off with Poems of the Pope, by Nicanor Parra. It’s actually pretty funny :)

But then followed that up

Bence Ádók

and his:

The Great Beyond

Tomb Worlds

The word was made flesh and lived on as a bird of soul, evermore. Sun bisected, bleeding grapefruit, autopsy of incurable, cosmic tumour. Every man is a planet in themselves subject to the spell of a necrotic nebula's flame. Fire within an opaque bottle dies to the dark before ever sowing stars in the sallow fields. Chance of divine resurrection? A…

a month ago · 13 likes · 5 comments · Bence Ádók

Which I thought was nice contrast to

Blace Alcock

‘s:

Blace Alcock

Desert poem

We are sand broken off the rock of God…

a month ago · 13 likes · 4 comments · Blace Alcock

I think it was about this time that

and now Miguel

called in with this:

and now Miguel

The Bluest (Audio Lyric Rap Poem)

Took a little break from working on the EP to put this together for y’all. “The Bluest” was written to a beat The Pocket Queen did using a video clip of Chadwick Boseman playing the guitar on the set for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. I decided to share this verse with After watching…

Listen now

a month ago · 14 likes · 13 comments · and now Miguel

Which was amazing, thank you so much for sharing this with us! Of course, he has a super polished version on his post (he’s making an EP everyone!) but it was nice to get the live version here.

And then we moved into

Rasmus Rosenkrantz

with his cinema sonnet:

Arthouse Poetry

Cinema Sonnets #3 - Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind - featuring Josh Datko

This is the third installment of Cinema Sonnets, a series where I ask fellow substack poets to pick a film, which we will both subsequently watch, meditate on, and use as inspiration for poetry…

a month ago · 14 likes · 13 comments · Rasmus Rosenkrantz and Josh Datko

Which of course, I’m biased, but I really liked this one :)

Joseph Coleman

’s poem then educated us all on walleyes:

Fleeting Meditations

Minnesota

A thousand swimming walleye Disturb not the flow of the river And the wings of a hundred mallard Change not the direction of the wind Only the rays of the setting sun Can turn the color of the water From deep indigo to gold Illuminating everything below…

a month ago · 5 likes · 1 comment · Joseph Coleman

And finishing up,

Simon

sent a letter poem to me called American Heartland, South China Sea. Which has a number countdown in the written poem that I merged with this ad:

And yeah, what a post-modern poem by Simon to end it up.

Thank you

Allison Taylor Conway

, and the rest for joining live. Thank you for all those that watch the recording. I appreciate all of you who take time out of your day to listen to me share your poetry that keeps me going throughout the week.

The intro and outro music was done by Sir HeyCitzen which you can listen to here.

Tomorrow, Saturday, 6pm Central time you can listen to more live music, including new tracks from HeyCitizen and myself as I recite four new poems at liveislit.com, The Sprouting Symphonies.

Poetry on Tape 9.5.25

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