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
  • 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
  • Behind the Curtain
    Aug 25 2024

    Song 1: Glimpses by Daniel P. Modaff, Jennifer Butler Modaff & Mark E. Collins, performed by GOOD ENOUGH from their new album, Saturday’s Child (2024).

    Poem 1: “Remember the Boneyard,” by Julie Williams from a collection in progress. Author of Escaping Tornado Season and Drama Queens in the House.

    Fiction: “Near Death,” a short story by Lynn C. Miller. www.lynncmiller.com

    FEED THE CAT BREAK: “Just Before the Curtain Opens,” by John V. Modaff.

    Poem 2: “Living Room Scene,” by Scott Wiggerman, based on Eric Fischl’s ‘Krefeld Project, Living Room Scene 1.’ https://scottwiggerman.myportfolio.com/

    Song 2: TV Jesus, written and performed by John V. Modaff with Jonathan Modaff on drums.

    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.
    NEXT UP: Episode 41, “The Age of Doubt”

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

    Lynn & John

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    41 mins
  • What Is Healing?
    Jul 26 2024

    Song 1: “Long Road” (Mark E. Collins & Daniel P. Modaff, BMI)

    Poem 1: “Breath” by Sarah Kotchian, from her new collection Light of Wings, UNM Press (2024): https://www.unmpress.com/9780826365972/light-of-wings/

    Fiction: excerpt from “Curiosities” a short story by Lynn C. Miller, from The Lost Archive by (2023) https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/6155.htm www.lynncmiller.com

    Feed the Cat Break: cut from“Walk a Mile In My Blues” (Dan, Ken, & John Modaff joined by Dave Merrill on the harmonica.) From the new album, Saturday's Child.

    Poem 2: “Dreaming Orion” by David Meischen, from his collection Anyone’s Son, 3: A Taos Press. David’s new book is Nopalito, UNM Press, 2024.

    Song 2: Sweet Songs” (John V. Modaff, with Good Enough)

    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: Episode 40 “Behind the Curtain”

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

    Lynn & John

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    36 mins

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