EP047: Poet for Hire
Published by SFEley on 30 Mar 2006 at 4:33 am.
9 Comments.
Filed under Podcasts, Rated G.
By Sue Burke.
Read by Mur Lafferty.
She had been wondering if she should start her own poetry business. She believed Milwaukee might need a poet for hire to spread the magic of verse around the town. Sometimes, in her current job as a medical secretary, she secretly wrote poems for especially ill patients. They got well, and Verity felt certain the focused mental energy from the poems helped them. She wanted to write poetry full-time to spread its energy to more people — to become the city’s first commercial free-lance poet.
Rated G. Contains implied violence and the sordid crimes of the pickle business.
Leif H Hansen on 31 Mar 2006 at 10:25 pm: 1
Your stories, well chosen, are always inspiring
They’re sure, I now knock wood, to keep neurons firing
Though busy, is my life, I stop and thank God
That each week, with child-joy I hear escapepod
Chris S. on 5 Apr 2006 at 2:44 am: 2
I like your podcast but can only get Ultraviolet Review. Will try later.
Simon on 6 Apr 2006 at 2:48 am: 3
Ythe reading was transparent I forgot it was Mur speaking immediately. And a nice little tale but I felt there was something, some turn of phrase that the final paragraph need . to end the give the resolution a real feeling of closure.
Lukas on 6 Apr 2006 at 8:01 am: 4
Thank you for talking about Stanislaw Lem. I have read Solaris a long time ago and a few Articles he published on the German Online-Magazine Telepolis.de . I will definetly check out Lem’s short stories the next time I go to a bookstore. (Also… I want to read that poem you DID NOT TELL…!) I can only hope they have him here in Japan.. Anyway, thanks for the cool stories. Also the people that read them do a terrific job.
Now its time to download the latest one. Whats it called? “Soul Food”. Sounds good…
Tom Christensen on 19 Sep 2006 at 3:23 pm: 5
Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide.
Fan of Don Lapre on 1 Nov 2006 at 5:01 pm: 6
Thought this podcast was great. I have been lucky to have time in my day for it and thank you for offering it.
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scatterbrain on 14 Apr 2008 at 5:13 pm: 9
A really nice sutle fantasy and (and I rarely comment on the reading) an excellent and believeable reading from Lafferty.