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Soapbox Where I Can Shout It Podcast"It can always feel new"Today, Animal Collective released the b side of their recently announced one-off single, “Love On the Big Screen / Buddies On the Blackboard.”Not going to overthink this one, the songs are very, very fun, in part because the band also didn’t overthink these songs.Who am I kidding, some overthinking is in order…After listening to these songs, be sure to listen to this episode, which unlike the usual podcast episodes is not supported by a full-text newsletter. You’ll just have to listen to find out what these two non-album singles have in co...2025-07-2917 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastThe Great Big "Get Behind Me Satan" EpisodeIncluded in this episode is the new and complete newsletter on Get Behind Me Satan’s 20th anniversary (which you can read here) as well as the scrapped post about objects and nostalgia, that is also about The White Stripes’ fifth album (which you can read here).(0:00 - 3:28): “How Old Are You Now, Anyway” pt. 1(3:39 - 21:39): “[scrapped post] I'm Lonely (But I Ain't That Lonely Yet)”(21:41 - 40:04): track-by-track review(40:05 - end): “How Old Are You Now, Anyway” pt. 2 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this wit...2025-07-1650 min
A Musician and A FilmmakerStar Wars (1977) Part 2 ft. Tony DeGenaroThis is part 2 (of 18298472384762345) of our Star Wars saga. May the something be something or other...Tony's Substack: https://tonyisapoet.substack.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-06-301h 08A Musician and A FilmmakerStar Wars (1977) ft. Tony DeGenaroWe are joined once again by friend of the show and avid listener Tony DeGenaro to discuss a little-known sci-fi movie from the 1970s.Tony's Substack: https://tonyisapoet.substack.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-06-271h 34
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastFood, Glorious FoodThe expanded podcast edition of my review of Alton Brown’s Food For Thought and an interview with Steve DeGenaro where my dad shares some thoughts of his own on food, cooking, and meals with friends.Steve DeGenaro is a co-owner of Sigaro Cigar Lounge in Hubbard, Ohio. Follow Sigaro on Facebook at this link, and check them out online here. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tonyisapoet.substack.com2025-06-271h 05
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastThe Dead Weather Do Not DieA track-by-track rereview of The Dead Weather’s second album Sea of Cowards for its 15 birthday, plus a little reflection on collecting, compulsion, and kick-ass music. Read the essay version here. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tonyisapoet.substack.com2025-05-1538 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastNational Poetry Month: April 30, 2025National Poetry Month 2025 comes to a conclusion with a predicable Billy Collins double-shot (“The Trouble with Poetry” and “Introduction to Poetry”), Lawrence Ferlinghetti (“A Coney Island of the Mind, 6”), and an original with a name so ridiculous in the context of this episode I can’t bear to add it to the show notes.Thank you listeners for following along and celebrating poetry with me these last 30 days. The podcast will continue though at a slower pace, stay tuned! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access...2025-05-0115 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastNational Poetry Month: April 29, 2025Three poems by my first poetry teacher: Terry Hermsen. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tonyisapoet.substack.com2025-04-3008 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastNational Poetry Month: April 28, 2025Okay, there’s a lot to this one. Think back to April 8th’s episode, the loosely tied trio, this is one of those days. Last week, I was thinking about The Hold Steady, specifically because of their album Separation Sunday because it was Easter (I wrote about that one, too). Anyway, those guys rock, and they have a different album that name checks John Berryman a number of times, John Berryman is a rock and roller’s poet, and that got me thinking on poetry about rock and roll. This was on my mind for at least a week...2025-04-2808 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastNational Poetry Month: April 27, 2025Ben joins me to talk briefly about one of my all-time favorite poets, Francisco X. Alarcón. We read “Ode to my Shoes” and “Words Are Birds.” Alarcón’s work, both for grown-ups and children, reveals something about poetry which is so spcieal to me that we kind of hear in the impromptu poetry-by-way-of-playing-choo-choo-trains in the basement with Ben, that poetry, an important tool for capturing the imagination, is not limited by intellect, skill, or age. Ben digs it. I dig it. You can too! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this...2025-04-2803 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastNational Poetry Month: April 26, 2025Another late nite episode. In honor (?!?) the heaviness of my own eyelids, the utter lack of inspiration, two songs of going to bed, by two classics, from two perspectives occasionally at odds, the wakeful grown up in the anxious “To Sleep” by John Keats and the excitable kiddos, as was Ben this evening, in “The Children’s Hour” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tonyisapoet.substack.com2025-04-2703 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastNational Poetry Month: April 25, 2025This evening I was honored to participate in the ODU World Student Club’s second annual Global Gala, where I read “To a Young Poet” and “To Our Land” by Mahmoud Darwish, and “A Palestinian Might Say” by Naomi Shihab Nye. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tonyisapoet.substack.com2025-04-2609 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastNational Poetry Month: April 24, 2025Yesterday the immortal Bard shared a birthday with sweet Desi, so today we celebrate William S. with Sonnet 18 and I get gross and sentimental about Rachel. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tonyisapoet.substack.com2025-04-2407 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastNational Poetry Month: April 23, 2025A sad poem about my boyhood dog, Maggie, “Puppies on Holiday” and a newer poem called “Dog tracks in the tall grass.” A return to Mary Oliver’s Dog Songs: “The Poetry Teacher” and “Percy Speaks While I am Doing Taxes”Dog tracks in the tall grassDog tracks in the tall grassserpentine reverie; loveletter – not from sky toground, too many poemswritten with green & dewtipped blades tickling thepoet’s neck gazing up“oh what majesty” theymight say, “oh...2025-04-2312 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastNational Poetry Month: April 22, 2025Celebrating some Emily Dickinson just for fun. We read “Tell all the truth but tell it slant”, “A Bird, came down the walk” and “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”. Great stuff, enjoy, and enjoy the brevity. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tonyisapoet.substack.com2025-04-2205 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastNational Poetry Month: April 21, 2025Getting ready to start gardening? Consider a red wheelbarrow, on which, I’m told, so much depends. A terribly short episode today - go listen to the 50 minute monstrosity on Coheed & Cambria that came out yesterday afternoon if you haven’t already, and of course, see you tomorrow for more poetry. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tonyisapoet.substack.com2025-04-2102 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastEvery End Has a BeginningCoheed & Cambria's 5th album, the end of 'guilty pleasures,' and the beginning of obsession, fifteen years later. An origin story and a track by track review of Year of the Black Rainbow. This is the podcast version of today’s newsletter, read the full essay here. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tonyisapoet.substack.com2025-04-2153 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastNational Poetry Month: April 20, 2025Today is Easter, the culmination of the Lenten season for Catholics, and today’s pod features one of the great spiritual and Catholic poets, my high school English teacher Mrs. Schmitzer’s favorite (such that she wouldn’t teach his work lest us a******s ruin it for her) Gerard Manley Hopkins. The poem fits the day: “Easter.” We heard selections from the hymn “Were You There,” a bit of delayed closure from Friday’s episode and a favorite hymn from a very different kind of church, The Hold Steady’s “Your Little Hoodrat Friend” (from their highly allegorical con...2025-04-2008 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastNational Poetry Month: April 19, 2025A quick one today: Bruce Snyder’s “Map,” from the book Paradise, Indiana. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tonyisapoet.substack.com2025-04-1904 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastNational Poetry Month: April 18, 2025I was so excited to invite Mia and Claire, the hosts of the Pretty Undone Podcast to come on and talk about the poetry of faith, Lent, and Good Friday. Our conversation was so fun and I hope you enjoy it. Give them a follow and subscribe to their pod where ever you subscribe to pods. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tonyisapoet.substack.com2025-04-1833 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastNational Poetry Month: April 17, 2025Two poems from Jim Daniels’ Having a Little Talk With Capital P Poetry, the titular piece and also “Ariel View of Warren, Michigan.” One poem by me, possibly influenced in some oblique way, by Daniels’ “Ariel View,” its “An Aerial Photo of the Cincinnati Subway.” An Aerial Photo of the Cincinnati Subwayall those poems I wrote about living in the skywere wrong, all those would-be-blues sangears so deaf they hung like withering ferns from thisfine cheek-boned male, I come fromCleveland, for reverie, come forb...2025-04-1710 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastNational Poetry Month: April 16, 2025“Elegy” by Natasha Trethewey, from her 2012 book Thrall. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tonyisapoet.substack.com2025-04-1602 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastNational Poetry Month: April 15, 2025Two originals from maybe 2016 or 2017. Ode to the Front Porch Birds1This poem is an apology becausethis poem is about me, sorrysmall bird with your ruffledplumage, your first flight.That’s real impressive. Eatworms, chew straw, suck teethyou little beaked b***h. It isfive AM. I am thinking aboutDeath. Go back to sleep,Mother bird will be home soon.2To my credit, your front do...2025-04-1507 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastNational Poetry Month: April 14, 2025A new album by Bon Iver came out on Friday, but wrapped up in all the Jack Whiteness of this past weekend, I’m only getting to it today. To celebrate, we hear from another great poet taken up in Wisconsin (by way of Kentucky and Iowa), the delightful and austere Max Garland, and his poem “The Postal Confessions.”There’s something interesting to discover between the poem and the intense connection I had to the music of Bon Iver that has now cooled. Maybe to heat up again? This is a public episode. If you w...2025-04-1409 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastNational Poetry Month: April 13, 2025We had to talk about Kerouac at some point on the podcast. This being the second weekend I’ve dragged four wheels and my sleepy ass up and back to Detroit, I figured it was time. Here’s two haiku and a passage from “October in the Railroad Earth” Okay here’s a poem I wrote during my senior year manuscript project at Otterbein, too.December in the Railroad EarthThe sharp reflections of the moonglimmering on the unsure surface of the bayare caught in the groovy disco-ball reflection of a2025-04-1308 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastNational Poetry Month: April 12, 2025Celebrating a concert date night with Rachel on the podcast with the poetry of Mr. Jack White. “Alone in My Home,” from the album Lazaretto. “We’re Going to Be Friends",from The White Stripes’ album White Blood Cells. “Courageous Dream’s Concern,” poem. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tonyisapoet.substack.com2025-04-1207 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastNational Poetry Month: April 11, 2025Content warning: the poem “Animals” (third in the episode) contains graphic depictions of violence towards animals. Today being the last Friday in Lent before Holy Week (the actual last Friday in Lent is “Good Friday,” an even more somber observation of the Lenten spirit, categorically different than the regularly somber Fridays of the season) and I am thinking about fasting. I am also thinking about the Holy Month of Ramadan, which recently ended for my friends and family who celebrate, and fast in a similar manner to us Catholics during Lent. There’s something poetic about fasting, about with...2025-04-1108 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastNational Poetry Month: April 10, 2025Two poems from Catherine Pierce’s The Tornado is the World for your tumultuous spring weather enjoyment. “The Mother Warns the Tornado” and “On the Origins of the Tornado,” both included in Pierce’s monograph, also published here at The Kenyon Review. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tonyisapoet.substack.com2025-04-1006 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastNational Poetry Month: April 9, 2025Another side-by-side, today, the great Robert Frost’s “Birches” and a poem I wrote about listening to a recording of Robert Frost’s “Birches” back in summer 2023. “Listening to Robert Frost’s “Birches” on a Walk”Listening to Robert Frost’s “Birches” on a walkin the woods of my adolescence – not figuratively –walking the actual geography of it, floating more likehearing Frost’s voice warble in wireless headphonesthat would have astonished him with the forceof 1,000 phonograph recordings (later uploadedto YouTube) as if it were a s...2025-04-0907 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastNational Poetry Month: April 8, 2025Today’s poems, all linked to a meandering theme, are “Night Journey” by Theodore Roethke, “Bluebird” by Charles Bukowski, and “Unexpected Things” (unpublished) by Tony DeGenaro. In the episode I talk about Joe Camerlengo’s music, please check it out, especially Can’t Wait, which was my #5 album of 2024 (Joe’s lifetime EP is an early contender for 2025…). Here’s the text of “Unexpected Things” for your reading pleasure:Unexpected ThingsI find myself obsessing over unexpected thingsespecially of lateas the wind howls against the north-facingbedroom wall of my son’s grandparent...2025-04-0812 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastNational Poetry Month: April 7, 2025… let’s do some Shel Silverstein! Today we read “The Homework Machine” and “Invitation.” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tonyisapoet.substack.com2025-04-0704 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastNational Poetry Month: April 5 & 6, 2025T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland is a modern epic of a poem, a dirge, a meditation of death and loss and destruction. Enjoy all 434 lines of what wikipedia calls “one of the most important English language poems of the 20th century.” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tonyisapoet.substack.com2025-04-0523 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastNational Poetry Month: April 4, 2025This is a busy birthday week, first Rachel (April 2) and now my older brother, Steve! There aren’t a ton of older brother you admire poems (maybe a niche market I can corner?) and there aren’t very many kind lawyer poems, so I’m appealing to one of my brother’s best interests: his lovely corgi, Moneypenny (there are also not very many James Bond poems, oddly). Happy birthday, Steve! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tonyisapoet.substack.com2025-04-0404 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastNational Poetry Month: April 3, 2025e.e. cummings double-shot!“[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]”“[anyone lived in a pretty how town]” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tonyisapoet.substack.com2025-04-0304 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastNational Poetry Month April 2, 2025A few unpublished classics to celebrate Rachel’s birthday. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tonyisapoet.substack.com2025-04-0209 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastNational Poetry Month: April 1, 2025National Poetry Month: https://poets.org/national-poetry-monthOn Turning TenThe whole idea of it makes me feel like I'm coming down with something, something worse than any stomach ache or the headaches I get from reading in bad lighta kind of measles of the spirit, a mumps of the psyche, a disfiguring chicken pox of the soul. You tell me it is too early to be looking back, but that is because you have forgotten 2025-04-0102 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastEpisode 8: Track One, Side OnesIn the soapbox newsletter this week while celebrating Beck’s Guero we talked about list making and rules for enjoying music, and the subject of top track one side ones came up. I promised my list and chiseled it down from these songs (using some rules of course!) to make my top five:* "Straight Outta Compton" - NWA* "London Calling" - The Clash* "Bixby Canyon Bridge" - Death Cab for Cutie* "Great Expectations" - The Gaslight Anthem* "Changes" - David Bowie* "At The Bottom of Everything" - Br...2025-04-0111 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastEpisode 7: Revisiting Revisiting the White StripesFull post on the newsletter here: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tonyisapoet.substack.com2025-03-2117 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastEpisode 6: St. Patrick's Day PlaylistSt. Patrick’s Day is upon us and while there are no shortage of good drunken Irish pub songs and no shortage of mediocre Irish and Irish-posing punk (and dozens of sub-genre punks) songs, there’s only one playlist of U2 songs, which is a vaguely offensive way to commemorate the holiday by highlighting with almost zero methodology two tracks from their impressive catalogue of albums (except the awfully disappointing Songs of Surrender but definitely including their delightfully awful live album Rattle & Hum). Me mum’s mum’s maiden name is Groghan this is my holiday, too. Str...2025-03-1708 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastEpisode 5: First Listen to Coheed & Cambria's "The Father of Make Believe"Full album title: Vaxis Act III: The Father of Make Believe, full episode title, "The Dogs Bark While I breathlessly walk in unseasonably warm weather despite it being early march while listening to Coheed & Cambria’s Vaxis Act III: The Father of Make Believe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tonyisapoet.substack.com2025-03-1411 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastEpisode 4: First Listen to Panda Bear's "Sinister Grift"Panda Bear’s newest album Sinister Grift is finally here and Ben & I wanted to let you know what we thought of each track. Sorry about the audio, hands-free voice note recording makes up for safety what it lacks in quality. We’ve been waiting five years for this one and couldn’t wait a second longer to dig in!! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tonyisapoet.substack.com2025-02-2810 minA Musician and A FilmmakerTwister (1996) feat. Tony DeGenaroFellow Animal Collective fan Tony DeGenaro joins the podcast to discuss his favorite blockbuster (for some reason). Greg yells a lot in this oneTony's Substack: https://tonyisapoet.substack.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-02-221h 30
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastEpisode 3: "MEG WHITE IS A BETTER DRUMMER THAN I AM A POET"MEG WHITE IS A BETTER DRUMMER THAN I AM A POETThis is an issue of record, meaning it is recordedon record as sounding the thumping heartbeatof an entire arena and or stadium. Can you imagineif every person in the world understood every stepyou ever took onto a bass drum? into a room? ontoa stage? C’mon people, Meg syncopated Jack Whitetied down those long stringed guitar solos, those longbarbaric yawps. It is recorded on six re...2025-02-1402 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastEpisode 2: "Assembling the stroller while listening to The White Stripes"Assembling the stroller while listening to The White Stripes’Get Behind Me Satan – an album that came out when I was a baby,barely walking, brushing sweaty hair from my anxious foreheadnow – marred with lines of worry and furrowed, glistening stillunderneath a hat with an old logo for a new university, “this is it,”I say to the dog, maybe my wife in the other room, the glassof bourbon shimmering in rhythm with the spinning fan, the recordspinning thirty-three and one third rota...2025-02-0701 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastEpisode 1: The Right StripesOn February 2, 2011, The White Stripes announced their retirement from making and performing live music. This news came to me while being on a flight from Columbus to Washington D.C., which is to say, this news came to me in the form of a dozen text messages with links to unsophisticated mobile news sites broadcasting the news far and wide.When my feet left the ground on that frigid morning, The White Stripes were a going concern. When that Embraer touched down besides the Potomac and taxied up to the gilded walls of Regan International Airport, The...2025-02-0404 min
Soapbox Where I Can Shout It PodcastEpisode 0: A New(ish) PoemThe Soapbox Podcast debut includes a new(ish) poem called "Birthday Party Poetry Lessons" This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tonyisapoet.substack.com2025-01-2302 min
Should we do a podcast??Episode 6: TonyNext up we have my homie Tony Degenaro.
In this episode, we talk about Star Wars, Kanye, and Twister ("cinematic masterpiece from 96")!!
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