Song 1: “Speak Up,” (composed and performed by John V. Modaff, with guitars by Dan Modaff and Dave Merrill)

Poem 1: “Sound Barrier” by Scott Wiggerman from the “Fire” chapter of Presence (San Antonio TX: Pecan Grove Press, 2011), a book arranged around the elements.

Fiction excerpt: from the novel Death of a Department Chair by Lynn C. Miller. University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. https://uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/D/Death-of-a-Department-Chair

Feed the cat break: “Cats, Cats, Cats” (Andrew Preston and AP Harbor)

Poem 2: from ee cummings, poem #22 from XAIPE, 1950. This innovative modern poet (1894-1962) revitalized language from the familiar. He was also a painter, essayist, author, and playwright.

Song 2: “Tell Me,” composed and performed by John V. Modaff.

Episode artwork by Lynda Miller
Theme & Incidental Music by John V. Modaff, BMI
Recorded in Albuquerque NM and Morehead KY. Produced at The Creek Studio

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Song 1: “The Eyes Have It,” composed and performed by John V. Modaff

Poem 1: “In Hurricane With Horses” by Mark Sanders. Mark lives in Nacogdoches, TX and teaches at Stephen F. Austin University. https://sandersme1.wixsite.com/mark-sanders/

Fiction excerpt: from the novel Death of a Department Chair by Lynn C. Miller. University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. https://uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/D/Death-of-a-Department-Chair

Feed the cat break: “Beastly Beauty” by John V. Modaff

Poem 2: “My Hipster” 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.

Song 2: “Sonnet 130” by William Shakespeare. Set to music by Phil Schmidt and performed by John V. Modaff

Episode artwork by Lynda Miller

Theme & Incidental Music by John V. Modaff, BMI

Recorded in Albuquerque NM and Morehead KY. Produced at The Creek Studio

NEXT UP on Episode 49: “Speaking Up”

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Lynn & John

Song 1: “Day Never Comes,” composed and performed by David R. Merrill.

Poem 1: “Leda and the Swan” by Nobel prize-winning poet W. B. Yeats, composed in 1923 and first printed in 1924.

Fiction: “The Secret Pool,” by Lynn C. Miller, excerpted from her first novel The Fool’s Journey, 2002 (Winedale Press). In press is the novel The Surrogate for 2026. www.lynncmiller.com

Feed the Cat Break: “The Legend of the Myth” by John V. Modaff

Poem 2: “Another Story” by poet Hilda Raz, from a story that inspired Yeats and many others about the beautiful Leda and the god-turned-swan Zeus. In New and Collected Poems, Letter from a Place I’ve Never Been, from University of Nebraska Press, 2022.

Song 2: “The Old Monsters Rest Home,” by John V. Modaff.

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 and produced at The Creek Studio

NEXT UP: Episode 48, “Beauty and the Beast”

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Lynn & John