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Amy Zoellers

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00:08:59

121 ~ Halloween Blues Song

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2025/11/01

SEVEN HALLOWEEN SONGS this year! That’s more songs than trick-or-treaters ringing our original 1978 doorbell—a disappointing turnout. But on the bright side, my Christmas shopping is done! (spoiler alert—it’s leftover Halloween candy)

00:20:27

120 ~ A Merry Hallowe’en!

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2025/10/29

A MERRY HALLOWE’EN! (as stated on a treasured cat-in-a-pumpkin mug my sister gave me years back!)It’s one of the most wonderful times of the year! Let us dive into American Halloween circa 1919 with Ruth E. Kelley’s Book of Hallowe’en—-then wallow in the atmosphere of Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. And for the final goody in our treat bag, we swing back to Ruth Kelley for three poems, ALL titled “Hallowe’en”!! NIFTY. Sit by the fire…roast some apples…chug some candy corn! Here we

00:11:07

119 - Bubblegum Zombies

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2025/10/29

Zombies! Another icon of terror as Halloween creeps ever closer! Bubblegum zombies? Well, you’d better get in here and find out!zombie cucumberhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura_stramoniumGTTUPOD Secret Creepy Folderhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/guide-to-the-unknown/id1313915711?i=1000704452755Atlas Obscura5 Creepy Tales of Real-World Zombies - Atlas Obscurawww.atlasobscura.com/articles/real-life-zombies

00:18:19

118 ~ The Howling Fantods

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2025/10/26

Fantods! A feeling of deep unease! Or a little dragon creature from mysterious writer and illustrator of eerie stories, Edward Gorey. I also like to imagine them as wispy ghosts in the woods. Or star creatures. Take your pick. And what is it about their howling that makes it so much more unsettling? Expand your vocabulary of American slang….and dig some pleasing terrors this October!What Does Fantods Mean? Definition &

00:12:20

117 ~ Got the Morbs

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2025/10/22

Halloween draws ever closer! Got the morbs yet? The what? That’s a Victorian slang phrase meaning “to sit under a cloud of despondency.” But for our purposes, we’ll dwell on the definition of “morbid” pertaining to an unusual interest in disturbing and unpleasant subjects, especially death and disease. Come along and visit some creepy, morbid sites around the globe! Then relax for some morbid poetry in the public domain this exquisite, haunted October!This episode was roundly inspired by my

00:16:08

116 ~ Candy Corn (A Love Song)

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2025/10/22

Candy Corn, oh dearest October paramour….Some love it! Some hate it! But candy corn makes her dazzling appearance every autumn on display endcaps of food stores far and wide. Look, I’m a songwriter, not an internet troll. So when the anonymous despisers of the ’corn come out and disparage her good name, I do not respond in kind. Instead, I bestow a love song upon the world. Showers of harvest corn blessings to you! May your candy corn have a fluffy mouthfeel. And Happy Upcoming Hallowe’en!!Candy

00:19:04

115 ~ Mylinga(r)

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2025/10/12

It’s that time of year again—the darkness is coming! Get ready for the spooky and the horrible as we dive into Mylingar, “the murdered ones,” that is, the spirits of children “put away” by their parents long ago in cold, difficult climates. One might encounter such an entity in a Time-Life Enchanted World book, or on a Year Walk, a Scandinavian Vision Quest of old—or in the game “Year Walk,” which is properly terrifying. Wowie. Light the candles, brew the tea, and turn on the Hygge for THIS one. It

00:15:24

114 ~ Wig Closet

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2025/09/17

Hey, take a powder! Don’t blow your wig! Or do—welcome to the wig closet, your favorite place to hide out when the hostility of life gets out of hand. Or, a nice little nook for powdering your elaborate wig, if you happen to be a fashionable citizen of the 18th-century. Grab your bear grease and your purple cornstarch and get ready to poof!!!Ghost Story Song!https://minutewax.bandcamp.com/album/the-voices-in-the-notes-a-ghost-storyWig

00:13:38

113 ~ Birthday Pie

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2025/09/12

Happy September birthdays! This one goes out to my angel of a husband—and to my lonely inner poet—and to those buried under gravestones inscribed with their signature recipes! You heard me. Happy birthday to ALL of us!!https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/gravestone-recipeshttps://thisismold.com/profile/recipes-from-the-afterlife-with-ghostly-archivesTransfusion Poetica by Amy Zoellers—home of “If You Were Someone Else”https://a.co/d/bJ98QnS

00:10:23

112 ~ Haunted Pants (Cryptid Campfire!)

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2025/08/02

Yep, haunted pants—what a wonderful world! Toast your marshmallows to new ditty about the mysterious “walking pajamas” of Fresno, California, et al: the Fresno Nightcrawler. Real? Fake? Certainly bizarre, and caught on camera! Dare we venture into the outdoors after dark? That all depends—upon whether you find these pants adorable or terrifying!The Fresno Nightcrawler, The Cryptid That Resembles A Pair Of Pants :

00:18:40

112 ~ Octopus Boot

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2025/06/27

Octopus boot? But yes, for a little tiny broken foot bone! What a fuss. Let’s dive into the basement stairs! The booting and crutching! Hey, I’ve been reading Anais Nin’s diaries—let’s voyeur into that. And the real cure for the metatarsal blues? Well, a blues song! But also: A Nightmare on Elm Street (the Johnny Depp one).Johnny Depp in A Nightmare on Elm Streethttps://youtu.be/Q-bpbsz9BHw?si=oLsQvph9rmVGOrDpThe Diary of Anais

00:17:00

111 ~ Weird Tumors

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2025/06/26

Yes, weird tumors, in song! A whole extra lifetime has passed since those little weirdies encircled my inside parts—that’s a blessin’! Get the story here, and how about a little callback to episode 75, “AI Art Song”? My skeleton foot, wearing flesh for a sock…🎵 Have you ever seen your skeleton foot in an x-ray? Sexay!!Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics — Miriam Engleberghttps://a.co/d/czxtjTO27 Kinds of Loneliness— McAnally / Vorwarkhttps://a.co/d/7FMzFsUThe Poet’s Bowl — Amy

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110 ~ Desirable

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2025/06/18

Just what is it to be desirable? Why do I get weirded out by my lover’s many exes? Why do I dream about that one gal? Is anyone cooler than Leanne Shapton? Let’s dive into nearly all of these conundrums in episode 10, with a fierce new song!Was She Pretty? Leanne Shapton https://a.co/d/cuqv14z27 Kinds of Loneliness - McAnally & Vorwarkhttps://a.co/d/jlAPXZ4

00:13:01

109 ~ Rainy Days and Urban Legends

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2025/06/03

What’s the least scary way to weather a tornado scare? Podcast right on through it! That wasn’t the plan, of course, when recording began. No, the rainy day seemed a golden opportunity to wallow in spooky stories — yes! And then the sirens wailed….27 Kinds of Loneliness https://a.co/d/7TALHCHThe Poet’s Bowlhttps://a.co/d/eqakFGyCryptid Campfire (songs)https://minutewax.bandcamp.com/album/cryptid-campfire

00:06:27

108 ~ Before and After

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2025/05/04

Happy Anniversary to my sweet gumdrop! I’m wearing your slippers right now—can you hear the magic? For the occasion, I’m dragging two old favorites out of the mothballs: “Death in the Afternoon” and “Hungarian Puzzle Box”—a little comparison of life before and after it got beautiful. Thank you for celebrating with!

00:14:40

107 ~ Song Slam (for National Poetry Month)

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2025/04/27

National Poetry Month 2025 lends us its shimmer for just a few days more! So let’s investigate Slam Poetry—what is it? For years I never knew! Let’s find out what it is and what it ain’t, and let us all agree that “So I Married an Axe Murderer” provides the ultimate example of an exaggerated beatnik-style poetry performance cinema has to offer. And remember, be a Mensch!Slam poetry | Definition, Guidelines, & History |

00:22:17

106 ~ Drunken Tercets

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2025/04/21

Poetry Freaks! It’s National Poetry Month 2025! Let us toast the occasion with poem-to-song “Drunken Tercets,” a string-of-pearls poem filled with lines from moon poems by favorite poets, and a reading of my handmade chapbook MOON-DEVOURED from cover to cover! You can find Moon-Devoured in “A Howling Breakfast of Moon Soda—4 Chapbooks in One!” by Amy Zoellers (McAnally), link below! And don’t forget to check out my sister-podcast, POETRY FREAKS as we jam ourselves with poetica all April long!A

00:19:28

105 ~ Poet’s Food

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2025/04/12

The food of poets! We splash again into National Poetry with a feast of poets praising food, fearing the distraction of baking, collecting poets’ recipes, and writing a grace at the age of six! It’s a feast!

00:12:42

104 ~ Tell Your Secrets to the Peacock

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2025/03/21

Is the peacock the keeper of secrets? Would you let them pull your chariot? Get a little surreal — and discover oodles about this strutting bird with plumage of a thousand eyes. Would you tell the peacock your secrets?The Peacock by Christine Jacksonhttps://www.amazon.com/Peacock-Animal-Christine-Jackson/dp/1861892934The Peacock in Myth, Legend, and 19th Century History ~ Mimi Matthewswww.mimimatthews.com/2016/05/13/the-peacock-in-myth-legend-and-19th-century-history/

00:13:57

103 ~ Grieving Flapper

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2025/03/07

Flappers! Those party gals of a century ago—unflappable! Until stricken with the universal thump of human grief. Diphtheria funerals—elevator mishaps—and the terrible death of a moonstruck

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