Myths and stories from around the world brought alive and singing into the here and now by storyteller, musician and poet Jay leeming.
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6/12/26 • 17:04
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6/10/26 • 06:59
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6/8/26 • 06:59
Poet and storyteller Jay Leeming explores the poem "After a Death" by the Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer. www.JayLeeming.com
6/2/26 • 17:13
The poem "At Melville's Tomb" by Hart Crane, read and explored by poet and storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
5/19/26 • 19:39
The story is not the words - the story as dialogue with the natural world and the spirits - remembering the story with the body - imagining your way into the story - the story as offering - story as emotional workout - maintaining healthy relationship with the story
5/5/26 • 51:22
Where does poetry come from? What helps that wild horse to arrive into our lives? An exploration of these questions by poet and storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
4/21/26 • 26:40
An interview with the storyteller, teacher, and theater maker Janardan Ghosh by Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
4/7/26 • 67:12
Approaching a story - story as storm, song, and animal - the story is not a tool - story as forest, story as traveler to be welcomed - the skills of the hunter - courting a story - our illusion of control - orality and literacy - story as dream - Jung's insights as they apply to story - stories approach us
3/24/26 • 62:03
A reading and exploration of part five of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" by storyteller and poet Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
3/10/26 • 25:56
The Iliad brought to life without a script and without a net by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
2/23/26 • 78:06
Part eleven of the Iliad, as told by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. A complete archive of stories performed on this podcast can be found at the website below. www.JayLeeming.com
2/2/26 • 47:49
"The hard and strong will fall, the soft and weak will overcome": two poems from the Tao Te Ching, read and then explored by Jay Leeming, poet and storyteller. www.JayLeeming.com
1/13/26 • 18:25
Poet and Storyteller Jay Leeming reads and comments on book one of Homer's Odyssey. Note: Unusually for this podcast this is not a storytelling performance but a reading, for those who wish to dive a little deeper into the Homeric version of this story which has inspired my own. www.JayLeeming.com
12/29/25 • 52:46
Notes from poet and storyteller Jay Leeming during his two-month storytelling journey through Greece and Cyprus in 2025.
12/16/25 • 34:02
A story from the Irish epic of Finn MacCool (Fionn MacCumhail) brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
12/9/25 • 56:20
An exploration of the poem "Sometimes a man stands up during supper" by Rainer Maria Rilke. www.JayLeeming.com
11/25/25 • 27:11
A deep dive into the craft of storytelling with performance storyteller Jay Leeming, exploring the creation of the opening scenes of his version of the Iliad. www.JayLeeming.com
11/13/25 • 46:40
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10/29/25 • 08:13
A princess born from a fire; a journey to speak with gods at the top of the world; a small boy who remains miraculously alive in an apocalyptic wasteland. These are three stories from the great epic of India known as the Mahabharata, brought to life through words and music by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
10/29/25 • 58:24
Storyteller and poet Jay Leeming explores canto one of "The Cantos" by the American poet Ezra Pound. Sequoia trees, blood for ghosts, and the dance of Aphrodite amid a shimmer of gold. www.JayLeeming.com
10/14/25 • 39:50
"If you want to find out who you are, cut off your head and enter the forest." A story out of French alchemy, told and explored by storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
10/13/25 • 25:47
It's desperate times for the Greek soldiers as Hector leads his warriors against them, determined to burn their ships and maroon them on the Trojan shore. www.JayLeeming.com
9/30/25 • 36:19
With Achilles out of the fighting the Trojans drive the Greeks back to the beach, where they all are faced with hard choices as the story of Troy continues. www.JayLeeming.com
9/21/25 • 54:16
An exploration of the American poet Gary Snyder's poem "Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout" by poet and storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
9/2/25 • 28:23
What moonlit god comes down to punish the Greeks with his arrows? What stray dog is the first unlikely victim of Agamemnon's wrath, and what the heck is that boat full of onions and cabbages doing in this story? The story of the Iliad continues, as brought to life by performance storyteller Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
8/15/25 • 62:57
An exploration of Pablo Neruda's poem "The Art of Poetry" by poet, storyteller, and musician Jay Leeming. www.JayLeeming.com
8/12/25 • 21:45
