The Shade Tree Poet: Recent Episodes
Curt Alderson
After struggling with the mortality of his loved ones, a downcast poet gets a visit from a mentor who sets the record straight.
What do we do with the information and the misinformation that comes our way these days? How does it affect us? How does it shape the way we engage with others? You decide.
A celebration of the men and women who, each day, selflessly do the work that is required to hold it all together.
After he swallows a hook one angler experiences a transformation in his approach to fishing and, perhaps, to life itself.
This episode features two new poems, one of which is a double elegy in honor of two separate men who taught two distinct lessons.
A new romance quickly falls apart, a new friendship is born, and one young man discovers the secrets hidden deep with a local lake.
The best solutions tend to be simple. And so it goes with turning down mental chatter. One poem captures a moment of realization in an unlikely setting.
Time moves on but certain memories remain for one basketball fan. As victory, loss, and grief collide within his mind, his struggles continue from life's sideline.
Convinced of an affair that isn't actually happening, a paranoid, delusional boyfriend seeks to exact his revenge.
CONTAINS ADULT LANGUAGE. In the day and age of factual relativity, is truth dead or alive? Does the answer even matter? One poet says, yes.
A middle-aged man struggles to redefine himself professionally after the factory he works in moves operations overseas. He weighs the options afforded him by a government retraining program versus the immediate return of entering the drug trade.
This episode features four original poems all of which explore the joys, the complexities, and the challenges of parenthood.
A pair of estranged lovers rekindle their relationship only to find the forces that drove them apart are still very much in place.
A father and his young son set out in search of a missing dog. As they travel, the father retells the story of a magical springtime flower, a lonely king, and the king's search for his missing bride to be.
Two brothers struggle to make ends meet while the older of the two pursues his dream of becoming a professional wrestler.