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A performance-centered podcast that features songs, poems, stories, and patter built around a theme each episode. Modaff and Miller are writers and stage/radio performers. Contemporary and classic writers, original stories and songs are performed.
Unknown Host hosts The Unruly Muse, a arts show with 61 episodes published.
Song 1: “Your Arms Around Me” (by Dan Modaff & Jennifer Butler Modaff, performed by Dan Modaff with Good Enough, from the album Saturday’s Child ) Poem 1: “The Trees Were Filled With Blossoms But No Bees,” by Katherine S
Song 1: “Lost Soul” (by Dave Merrill) Poem 1: “Rock, Scissors, Paper, the Anniversary Edition, 11 September 2020” by Sandra Yannone. This poem comes from her recent collection, The Glass Studio. Since March 2020, she's h
Song 1: “Peace” (by Larry Modaff with Good Enough ) Poem 1: “For a Long Time I Have Wanted to Write a Poem About Happiness” by Susan Aizenberg. This poem, from her second collection, Quiet City (BkMk Press 2015); her new
Song 1: “Before the Magi” (John V. Modaff, sung by The Woman of Mystery) Poem 1: “Occupied” by Scott Wiggerman. His new collection, Beginning and Ending with Emily , came out Spring of 2026 with Casa Urraca Press. Scott
Song 1: “Say Hello” (composed and performed by John V. Modaff) Poem 1: “Narrative Without People” by Hilda Raz, from Divine Honors. Author of eight collections of poems. The epigraph to this book is by Cynthia Macdonald:
Song 1: Ride Downtown (composed & performed by John V Modaff, with Dave Merrill on 2nd & 3rd guitars and harmonica) Poem 1: “Eleanor Remembers” by Susan Aizenberg, published in 2025 in On the Seawall , a community galler
Song 1: “Like They Did” (composed and performed by John V. Modaff with Dan Modaff on mandolin and 2nd/3rdguitars) Poem 1: “Bringing Back the Dead” by Julie Williams, a poet and visual artist. Author of Escaping Tornado S
Song 1: “You Can’t Do That” (composed and performed by John Modaff) Poem 1: “Vegetable Medley” by Mikki Aronoff, a much-published Albuquerque poet, Pushcart nominee, and animal advocate . Poem first published in The Drib
Song 1: “Homeless” (by Daniel P. Modaff with Good Enough ) Poem 1: “Burned” by Jack Cooper, author of Silly Lily’s Rhyming Adventures In Nature (2023) and Across My Silence (2007) World Audience, Inc. https://sillylilysa
Song 1: “Is That Love” (John V. Modaff) Poem 1: “Little Histories” by Scott Wiggerman whose new book of poems comes out in Spring of 2026 with Casa Urraca Press. Scott lives in Albuquerque and is a painter and a poet amo
Song 1: “Disappear” (Daniel P. Modaff with Good Enough on the CD Dakota Plains ) Poem 1: “For the Dark Girl” by Susan Aizenberg. Published in her first full-length collection, Muse. Susan lives in Iowa City, IA. Her most
Song 1: “Twenty Wishes” (John V. Modaff, w/ lead guitar and mandolin by Dan Modaff) Poem 1: “You Weary Listening To Their First World Complaints” by Mikki Aronoff. Published in Gooseberry Pie . Mikki is featured this yea
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 Pres
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.wixsi
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
Song 1: The God Machine (Dave Merrill and John V. Modaff) Poem 1: “To the Mother of the Sixteen-Year-Old Boy Shot Dead by the Police After She’d Called Them” by Susan Aizenberg. From Quiet City , BkMk Press 2015. Her mos
Song 1: “The Swing Set Song” by Andrew Preston and AP Harbor, from the album Mildepond Poem 1: “Contemplating Eternity While Sticking Its Neck Out” by Julie Williams, author of Escaping Tornado Season and Drama Queens in
Song 1: “The Young & The Old” (composed by David R. Merrill, performed with John Modaff) Poem 1: “Cousin Judy Paints” by Mikki Aronoff, a much-published Albuquerque poet, Pushcart nominee, and animal advocate. Short Stor
Song 1: “I Can’t Sing That Song” (John V. Modaff) Poem 1: “Ecdysis Sonnet” by Sandra Yannone. Sandy’s new collection is the glass studio (Salmon Poetry, 2024). Fiction: excerpt from the novel in progress, “The Angel of D
Song 1: “Clever Brilliant Mind” (by David R. Merrill with John Modaff) Poem 1: “I’m” by Jack Cooper, author of Silly Lily’s Rhyming Adventures In Nature (2023) and Across My Silence (2007) World Audience, Inc. https://si
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