The Unruly Muse

By: Lynn C. Miller and John Modaff
  • Summary

  • Half hour-ish podcasts that feature songs, poems, stories, and patter built around a theme each time. Modaff and Miller are writers and stage/radio performers. Contemporary and classic writers, original stories and songs are performed.
    2021
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Episodes
  • Breaking Up
    Nov 24 2024

    Song 1: “I Can’t Sing That Song” (John V. Modaff)

    Poem 1: “Ecdysis Sonnet” by Sandra Yannone. Sandy’s new collection is the glass studio (Salmon Poetry, 2024).

    Fiction: excerpt from the novel in progress, “The Angel of Devastation.” Her latest book is The Lost Archive: stories, https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/6155.htm

    Feed the Cat Break: “Different Same,” by Jonathan A. Modaff

    Poem 2: “Sympathetic Magic” by Susan Aizenberg. Susan’s new collection is A Walk With Frank O’Hara (UNMP, 2024).

    Song 2: “I Call Crazy” (T Bone Kelly, from the album Toast)

    Episode artwork by Lynda Miller

    Show theme and incidental music by John V. Modaff, BMI

    The Unruly Muse is Recorded in Albuquerque, NM and Morehead, KY

    Produced at The Creek Studio, Morehead 40351

    NEXT UP: Episode 44 coming January 2025: “Harmony”

    Thank You to our listeners all over the world. Please tell a friend about the podcast.

    Lynn & John

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    42 mins
  • Unruly Thoughts
    Oct 22 2024

    Song 1: “Clever Brilliant Mind” (by David R. Merrill with John Modaff)

    Poem 1: “I’m” by Jack Cooper, author of Silly Lily’s Rhyming Adventures In Nature (2023) and Across My Silence (2007) World Audience, Inc. https://sillylilysadventures.com/

    Fiction: three short excerpts from her third novel The Day After Death by Lynn C. Miller, published by the University of New Mexico Press, 2016. www. lynncmiller.com

    Feed the Cat Break: “One November Evening” by Chris Geyerman with John V. Modaff

    Poem 2: “Sunday Afternoon with Seurat” by David Meischen, author of the linked story collection Nopalito, University of New Mexico Press, 2024 and the poetry collection Anyone’s Son (3, A Taos Press, 2020).

    Song 2: “Counting Down the Raindrops” by Andrew Preston and A. P. Harbor.

    Episode artwork by Lynda Miller
    Show theme 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: Episode 43, “Breaking Up”

    Thank You to our listeners all over the world. Please tell a friend about the podcast.

    Lynn & John

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    36 mins
  • Doubt
    Sep 26 2024

    Song 1: “I’m Not Your Maybe” (Daniel P. Modaff, performed with GOOD ENOUGH from the album Saturday’s Child)

    Poem 1: “Conditional Love Story” by Barbara Rockman, author of the poetry collections To Cleave and Sting and Nest. Barbara is a poet and teacher whose homebase is Santa Fe.

    Fiction: Excerpt from “The Surrogate,” a novel in process by Lynn C. Miller, whose latest book is The Lost Archive: stories, https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/6155.htm

    Feed the Cat Break: “Counting Down the Raindrops” (Andrew Preston and A.P. Harbor)

    Poem 2: “The Impossibility of Stasis," by Hilda Raz whose New and Collected Poems, Letter from a Place I’ve Never Been, came out from University of Nebraska Press.

    Song 2: “I Doubt It” (John V. Modaff)

    Episode artwork by Lynda Miller

    Theme and Incidental Music by John V. Modaff, BMI

    Recorded in Albuquerque NM and Morehead KY

    Produced at The Creek Studio

    NEXT UP on Episode 42: “Unruly Thoughts”

    Thank You to our listeners all over the world. Please tell a friend about the podcast.

    Lynn & John

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    35 mins

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