The Unruly Muse
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.
- Update frequency
- every 31 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 51
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
THE PAST
Teaser*: excerpts from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925.
Song 1: History, Mystery, Love by John V. Modaff
Poem 1: “Girl with Red Scarf” by Barbara Rockman, published in bosque journal, iss…
Landscape: Real & Imagined
Teaser: from a journal entry by Henry David Thoreau, American author, 1859.
Song 1: “Blue Train” by John V. Modaff, from the cd POD ONE
Poem 1: “Letter from a Place I’ve Never Been,” title poem of H…
What Is Work?
Teaser: Sinclair Lewis, American writer, 1915, “The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life”
Song 1: Good Time written and performed by John V. Modaff
Poem 1: “Reasons the Suggestion Box…
The Journey
Show artwork, Lynda Miller
Teaser, excerpt from Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman, 1855
"Time to Go," song by John V Modaff, 2005, performed with Good Enough on More Than A Line
"Fade and Erase," poem by T…
THE SHADOW
Episode art work by Lynda Miller
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886, excerpt.
“EmmaJo,” song by John Modaff.
“Pursuit,” poem by Scott Wiggerman, originally publi…
ART AGAINST THE MADNESS
The Wizard of Oz, (brief teaser, L. Frank Baum, 1900)
The Roof of the Jewel, song by John Modaff
“Advice to a Stalker of Sekhmet, from Ra, Who Understands Her Best,” poem by Mikki Aronoff, (publishe…
HOME
Our sincere thanks to all contributors, even Henrik Ibsen, who might be beyond caring.
A Doll's House, excerpt, by Henrik Ibsen
Up & Left, song by Mark E. Collins and John Modaff (Good Enough)
Pale Blue…
LOVE, ROMANCE and MARRIAGE
Excerpt from The Age of Innocence, a novel by Edith Wharton, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1920
“What I Married Into” poem by Barbara Rockman, from To Cleave, University of New Mexico Press, 2019
"More Th…
CARNIVAL: The Human Comedy
Featured Pieces:
The Importance of Being Earnest (excerpt, Oscar Wilde)
Wander (song, jvm)
Is It Really You? (story excerpt, Lynn C. Miller)
Meet & Greet (song, Red Fire)
The Salesman (poem, Jon Kelly Y…
The In-Between
The In-Between
Featuring:
Alice Chats up a Cat (excerpt from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll)
The 10th Hour (song, John Modaff)
The Unmasking (novel excerpt and commentary, Lynn C. Miller…
GLIMMERING
The show rundown includes:
"Soldiers Home" (song, John Modaff)
"Noir by Night" (short story, Lynn C. Miller),
"Raymond Chandler Drafts My Obit" (poem, Scott Wiggerman)
"River Roses" (poem by DH Lawrence…