The epic of the Irish hero Finn MacCool (Fionn MacCumhail) comes to a close in this story brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

An exploration of Emily Dickinson's poem "I heard a fly buzz when I died" by poet, storyteller and musician Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

An exploration of James Wright's poem "Goodbye to the Poetry of Calcium" by poet, storyteller, and musician Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

When the Greek army arrives at Troy they encounter Cygnus, the indestructible man, and wrestle with the prophecy of Calchas which says that the first man to step ashore will be the first to die. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

An exploration of the poem "The Diver's Clothes Lying Empty" by Jalal al-Din Rumi, as translated by Coleman Barks. www.JayLeeming.comBy Jay Leeming

Before you go to war, it's probably best to spend a year living as a dancing girl on the island of Skyros. That's the wisdom which this beautiful story brings to us, just in time for us to put on our own dancing shoes and sing our way into the deepening wilderness of this epic brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.c…

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.…

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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