Best Jay Leeming Podcasts (2025)

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Just Another Day Getting Struck by Lightning with Frank O'Hara 19:31

7d ago19:31

19:31

An exploration of the poems "To the Harbormaster" and "The Day Lady Died" by Frank O'Hara. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

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The Iliad Part Five: The Horse Sacrifice 1:06:24

21d ago1:06:24

1:06:24

When I got to the whispering forest and the dark I thought of the sacrifice of the horse, and how it bound us to the god of the sea and the way the horse's nostrils flared and later by the fire the branches devoured by flame seemed wrinkled ancestors confessing their bright crimes to the rain. www.JayLeeming.com…

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Steve Scafidi Interview: "What if Faulkner is Wrong and We Do Not Endure or Prevail" 31:12

1M ago31:12

31:12

An interview with the poet Steve Scafidi, who reads his poem "What if Faulkner is Wrong and We Do Not Endure or Prevail" and discusses laughter, oblivion, religion, high school, and poetry with host Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

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The Iliad, Part Four: Zeus' Wild Daughter 58:19

2M ago58:19

58:19

Achilles is born and narrowly misses his change at immortality; meanwhile a storm drives prince Paris across the sea and to the palace of a particularly wild and beautiful queen. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

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Sharon Olds: "California Swimming Pool" 23:41

2M ago23:41

23:41

An exploration of the poem "California Swimming Pool," by Sharon Olds. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

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Joel Christensen: Stories as Living Beings 49:53

2M ago49:53

49:53

An interview with Professor Joel Christensen about Homeric Epic and the possibility of regarding stories as living beings. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

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Pablo Neruda: "Ode to My Socks" 24:26

3M ago24:26

24:26

The odes of Pablo Neruda explored by poet and storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

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The Iliad Part Three: Paris, the Sea-Dragon, and the Prophecies of Cassandra 47:15

3M ago47:15

47:15

The epic of the Iliad brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

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The Iliad Part Two: The Judgement of Paris 42:52

4M ago42:52

42:52

The epic of the Iliad, brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

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The Iliad Part One: Prometheus, Paris, and the Goddess of Deep Water 1:03:13

5M ago1:03:13

1:03:13

Performance storyteller Jay Leeming brings the sprawling epic of the Iliad alive with all of its birds, thunder, and goddesses intact. www.JayLeeming.coBy Jay Leeming

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Episode #123: The Birth of Oisin 25:33

7M ago25:33

25:33

Once again Finn MacCool stumbles into relationship with the Otherworld, in this story from the Irish Finn cycle brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

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Episode #121: The Mermaid in the Mirror 1:06:48

7M ago1:06:48

1:06:48

Do we live in a world of infinite possibilities, or of barriers and limits? A wizard, a blue snake, and a mermaid help us to explore this question in this story from deep within the mythic cosmos known as Stories from One Thousand and One Nights. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

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Episode #120: Finn MacCool and the Spell of a Hundred Years 38:04

7M ago38:04

38:04

Though these stories seem to focus on the exploits of Finn and his band of poetical warriors, the Goddess is always present in all her forms and liable to show up in the most unlikely of circumstances. In this episode Finn sets out into the wild but soon finds himself in a territory of weakness and forgetting unlike any he has stumbled into before.…

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Episode #119: Finn MacCool and the Fomorians 1:03:00

8M ago1:03:00

1:03:00

Here's a rowdy dream-vision involving a house thatched with feathers, pigs that never die and a sea-god for whom story is the fire that warms his house; it's the journey of King Cormac into the Otherworld as brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

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Episode #118: Talking About the Mahabharata With Geetha Reddy 52:04

9M ago52:04

52:04

Storyteller Jay Leeming and playwright Geetha Reddy discuss her recent adaptation of the Mahabharata.By Jay Leeming

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Episode #117: The Boyhood of Finn MacCool, Part Two 43:28

10M ago43:28

43:28

The Irish epic of Finn MacCool, brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

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Episode #116: The Boyhood of Finn MacCool, Part One 59:57

10M ago59:57

59:57

The Irish epic of Finn MacCool brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

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Episode #115: Girl Meets Wolf: Exploring "Red Riding Hood" 32:13

1y ago32:13

32:13

There's trouble out there, big nasty toothy trouble and this life isn't just sitting with bread and honey by a warm fire. That's the truth expressed in this age-old narrative of innocence becoming wisdom, a primal building-block of story explored by storyteller Jay Leeming and who knows if on the way we might also meet the Buddha on the road? www.J…

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The Odyssey Part One: Feasting the Sea-God 55:42

1y ago55:42

55:42

The epic of the Odyssey brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

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Songbox #1: Odysseus, Guslar and the Belly of the world 44:24

1y ago44:24

44:24

A live and unscripted riff on hunger, myth, and the origins of poetry by performance storyteller Jay Leeming, unedited and rowdy as an apple on a branch. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming