HeyJaredPoking Around
Join hosts Hannah Monsour and Zoe Branch as they joke around about poems and poem around about jokes. Both professional poets and amateur comedians, the artists explore the funny and the profound — often in the same breath.
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- 13
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- Sep 29, 2026
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- Jul 7, 2026
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The Club ft Breonn Lyons (opens the original)
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Featured poem: Weather Boy by Breonn Lyons. Featured topics: clubbing, romance, notes app poetry, girls night out, crossing the street, risking your life. Poem read with permission from the author. Theme song by Allegra Ritchie. Send us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingaroundpod@gmail.com New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @ pokingaroundpod + @ hannahmonsour + @ zoe.branch
Gorgeous Clown Fundamentals (opens the original)
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Featured poem: The Women’s Locker Room 10 AM on Thursdays, Immediately Following Water Aerobics by Jillian Stacia. Featured topics: horrifying dreams, nudity, aging, clowns, locker rooms, and radical vulnerability. Poem read with permission from the author. Theme song by Allegra Ritchie. Send us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingaroundpod@gmail.com New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @ pokingaroundpod + @ hannahmonsour + @ zoe.branch
Identifying With Men (opens the original)
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Featured poem: I Dreamt of Molly and Told Her I Want to be a Poet Too by Mckenna Irwin. Featured topics: souls, dr*gs, heaven, love, p*ss, sh*t, blood, womanhood, the pandemic, facebook, miscommunications, bathrooms. Poem read with permission from the author. Theme song by Allegra Ritchie. Send us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingaroundpod@gmail.com New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @ pokingaroundpod + @ hannahmonsour + @ zoe.branch
Desert Based Time (opens the original)
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Featured poem: Cheesecake Factory by Max McDonough. Featured topics: lent, convenience, working at the mall, falling in love, queerness, weddings, and walking on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. Poem read with permission from the author. Theme song by Allegra Ritchie. Send us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingaroundpod@gmail.com New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @ pokingaroundpod + @ hannahmonsour + @ zoe.branch
Limerence (opens the original)
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Featured poem: WebMD & chill by Anthony Gioia. Featured topics: infatuation, limerence, crushes, pregnancy, pillows. Poem read with permission from the author. Theme song by Allegra Ritchie. Send us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingaroundpod@gmail.com New episode every Tuesday! Follow us @ pokingaroundpod + @ hannahmonsour + @ zoe.branch
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