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The Crane Bag Podcast — 204 episodes
101 Stories Day 101: Scheherazade
101 Stories Day 100: King Midas and the Goat-Man
101 Stories Day 99: The Boy and the Half-Giantess
101 Stories Day 98: The Noise is Not My Enemy / Gilgamesh, Enkidu and Humbaba
101 Stories Day 97: Thorngirl Dreaming
101 Stories Day 96: Goddess of All That Grows / What the Story Was Made Of
101 Stories Day 95: Helen Sets Sail
101 Stories Day 94: Mozart Versus Zero
101 Stories Day 93: Spirit Lake Excalibur
101 Stories Day 92: The Mermaid, the Dragon, and the Old Man Who Lives in a Rock
101 Stories Day 91: Prairie Stories
101 Stories Day 90: Freight Train Gilgamesh
101 Stories Day 89: Fargo White Snake North Dakota
101 Stories Day 88: Nasruddin's Report to the King
101 Stories Day 87: Iron John Part Four
101 Stories Day 86: Iron John Part Three
101 Stories Day 85: Iron John Part Two
101 Stories Day 84: Iron John Part One
101 Stories Day 83: I Praise the Beginning
101 Stories Day 82: In the Palace of the White Bear King
101 Stories Day 81: Invest in the Impossible
101 Stories Day 80: A Boy. His Mother. The Sea.
101 Stories Day 79: Twelve Chapters From the Book of the World
101 Stories Day 78: The Fisherman and the Djinn
101 Stories Day 77: Minotaur
101 Stories Day 76: Life as a Pig is Pretty Great
101 Stories Day 75: Radio Achilles
101 Stories Day 74: The Tailor in Heaven
101 Stories Day 71: All Things Talk
101 Stories Day 70: The Wild Hag of the Woods
101 Stories Day 69: Whose Bag is This?
101 Stories Day 68: A Rough Day for the King of the Gods
101 Stories Day 67: What Kind of Town is This?
101 Stories Day 66: After the Accident
101 Stories Day 64: Spiritual Swimming Lessons From the Upside-Down Man
101 Stories Day 63: Antaeus on Star Island
101 Stories Day 62: Poseidon Ukelele
101 Stories Day 61: Dead Butterflies
101 Stories Day 60: The White Bear King
101 Stories Day 59: Remembering Robert Bly
101 Stories Day 58: I Got Nuthin' / Siberian Healing Story
101 Stories Day 57: Veteran Seeks Employment in Underworld
101 Stories Day 56: What Krishna Said
101 Stories Day 55: Waterfall Paradise But No Dogs
101 Stories Day 54: Gambling for the Universe
101 Stories Day 53: Angry Little Ocean / The Shield of Achilles
101 Stories Day 52: Karna and the Sage of a Thousand Years
101 Stories Day 51: Ocean-Bottom Wedding
101 Stories Day 50: Cosmology of the Monkey God
101 Stories Day 49: Let the Universe Begin
101 Stories Day 48: Finn in the House of the World
101 Stories Day 47: The Birth of Karna
101 Stories Day 46: The Three Fates
Watching Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey"
101 Stories Day 45: Good Advice From a Horse
101 Stories Day 44: The Age of Kali Begins
101 Stories Day 43: King Meets Brahmin in Forest
101 Stories Day 42: Eumaeus in the Rain
101 Stories Day 41: Paleozoic Prometheus Radio
101 Stories Day 40: Odyssey Drum Remix
101 Stories Day 39: Shantanu and the Goddess of the River
101 Stories Day 38: Dragons in the Earth
101 Stories Day 37: Night Orpheus Dreaming
101 Stories Day 36: Stopping in Sounion (Σουνιο)
101 Stories Day 35: Arjuna in the Mountains
101 Stories Day 34: Dreams of Damascus
101 Stories Day 65: Seaside Dharma
101 Stories Day 33: I Was a Boat on the Salt Salt Sea
101 Stories Day 32: The Churning of the Cosmic Ocean
101 Stories Day 31: Rhiannon
101 Stories Day 30: The Teacher, the Student, and the River
101 Stories Day 29: Oration Delivered Before Hurling a Boulder
101 Stories Day 28: Like a Man But Covered in Hair
101 Stories Day 27: Phaeacian View
101 Stories Day 26: Why We Prayed to the Deathless Gods
101 Stories Day 25: The Meaning of Blankness
101 Stories Day 24: Old Woman Makes Soup
101 Stories Day 23: Why the Hedgehog Turned Her Snout to the North
101 Stories Day 22: Wolf Goes Hungry
101 Stories Day 21: I Will Give You Whatever You Ask
101 Stories Day 20: King Powell Thirteen
101 Stories Day 19: Dragonfly Highway
101 Stories Day 18: Koschei Disassembly Instructions
101 Stories Day 17: I Remember Lightning
101 Stories Day 16: When the Teeth of the Sun First Bite the Day
101 Stories Day 15: When I Was Not
101 Stories Day 14: Three Out of Four Ain't Bad
101 Stories Day 13: A Field Guide to Birds
101 Stories Day 12: How My Sister Married a Bird
101 Stories Day 11: Over Here in America
101 Stories Day 10: Barber Cuts Hair
101 Stories Day 9: Respecting the Zero
101 Stories Day 8: She Who Makes Wine Beside the Sea of Death
101 Stories Day 7: Coyote Loses His Eyes
101 Stories Day 6: The Trial of Zeus
101 Stories Day 5: Yams in a Bag
101 Stories Day 4: The Prince Who Left the Palace
101 Stories Day 3: What the Grain of Sand Had to Say
101 Stories Day 2: You Wear This Town Like a Jacket
101 Stories Day 1: Soup
101 Stories in 101 Days: Introduction
Tomas Transtromer: "After a Death"
Hart Crane: "At Melville's Tomb"
The Craft of Storytelling Part Two: Telling a Story
Jay Leeming: "The Barber"
Story and Spirituality with Janardan Ghosh
The Craft of Storytelling, Part One: Approaching a Story
Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part Five
The Iliad, Part Twelve: The Death of Hector
The Iliad, Part Eleven: The Shield of Achilles
Lao-Tzu: Poems #76 and #1 from "the Tao Te Ching"
A Reading of the Odyssey, Book One
On the Road in Greece and Cyprus
Diarmuid and the Princess From Beneath the Sea
Rilke: "Sometimes a Man Stands Up During Supper"
Iliad Deep Dive
Episode #122: Draupadi, the Princess Born From a Fire
Thank You
Ezra Pound: Canto One
If You Want to Find Out Who You Are
The Iliad Part Ten: The Burning of the Ships
The Iliad, Part Nine: I Will Fight No More
Gary Snyder: "Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout"
The Iliad, Part Eight: The Wrath of Achilles
Pablo Neruda: "The Art of Poetry"
Robert Frost: "Directive"
Oisin in the Land of Tir Na Nog
Emily Dickinson: "I heard a fly buzz when I died"
James Wright: "Goodbye to the Poetry of Calcium"
The Iliad Part Seven: the Greeks Arrive at Troy
Rumi: "The Diver's Clothes Lying Empty"
The Iliad, Part Six: Achilles Among the Dancing Girls
Just Another Day Getting Struck by Lightning with Frank O'Hara
The Iliad Part Five: The Horse Sacrifice
Steve Scafidi Interview: "What if Faulkner is Wrong and We Do Not Endure or Prevail"
The Iliad, Part Four: Zeus' Wild Daughter
Sharon Olds: "California Swimming Pool"
Joel Christensen: Stories as Living Beings
Pablo Neruda: "Ode to My Socks"
The Iliad Part Three: Paris, the Sea-Dragon, and the Prophecies of Cassandra
The Iliad Part Two: The Judgement of Paris
The Iliad Part One: Prometheus, Paris, and the Goddess of Deep Water
Episode #123: The Birth of Oisin
Episode #121: The Mermaid in the Mirror
Episode #120: Finn MacCool and the Spell of a Hundred Years
Episode #119: Finn MacCool and the Fomorians
Episode #118: Talking About the Mahabharata With Geetha Reddy
Episode #117: The Boyhood of Finn MacCool, Part Two
Episode #116: The Boyhood of Finn MacCool, Part One
Episode #115: Girl Meets Wolf: Exploring "Red Riding Hood"
The Odyssey Part One: Feasting the Sea-God
Songbox #1: Odysseus, Guslar and the Belly of the world
The Odyssey Part Ten: Once I Went Hunting
The Odyssey Part Eleven: The Rooted Bed
The Odyssey Part Nine: Now You Must Be Someone Else
Odyssey Part Seven: Blood for Ghosts
The Odyssey Part Five: My Name is Nobody
The Odyssey Part Four: Welcome, Stranger
The Odyssey Part Three: Some Say He is My Father
The Odyssey Part Two: The Kingdom of Rust and Honey
Odyssey Part Eight: A Song You Must Not Hear
The Odyssey Part Six: With a Hawk Feather in Her Hair
The Seven Sisters
Storyteller Daniel Morden interviewed by Jay Leeming
The Mahabharata Part Sixteen: The Journey to the Otherworld
The Mahabharata Part Fifteen: Tranquility
The Mahabharata Part Fourteen: War's End
Mahabharata Part Thirteen: The Death of Drona
Mahabharata Part Twelve: The Death of Bhisma
The Mahabharata Part Eleven: Krishna's Last Efforts
The Mahabharata Part Ten: In the Court of King Virata
Episode 87: Persephone, Queen of the Underworld
The Mahabharata Part Nine: Draupadi and the Jambul Tree
The Mahabharata Part Eight: The Search for Weapons
Episode 84: The Mahabharata Part Seven: Into the Forest
Episode 82: Mahabharata Part Five: Draupadi's Laughter
Orpheus and Eurydice
Episode 81: The Mahabharata Part Four: The Birth of Draupadi
Episode 57: The Norse Creation Myth
Episode 83: Mahabharata Part Six: A Game of Dice
Episode 80: The Mahabharata Part Three: Drona
Exploring the Odyssey #2 with Bethany Dixon
Episode 79: The Mahabharata Part Two: The Birth of the Pandavas
Episode 78: The Mahabharata Part One: Origins
Episode 77: The Birth of Bhisma
Episode 76: Markandeya Walks the World
Exploring the Odyssey #1 with Sam Buggeln
Episode 75: Arawn, Lord of Annwvyn
Episode 74: Branwen, Daughter of Llyr (Part Two)
Episode 74: Branwen, Daughter of Llyr (Part One)
Episode 73: Into the Underworld with the Luckiest Boy Alive
Episode 72: Exploring the Odyssey with Joel Christensen
Episode 71: The Mermaid and the Falcon Prince
Episode 70: Opening to Story with Laura Simms
Episode 68: The Theft of Sif's Hair
Episode 66: Exploring Story with Csenge Zalka
Episode 67: Naqqali Storytelling with Morshed Saghi and Arash Ali Farhadipour
Episode 63: Tag Team Firebird
Episode 65: Miguel Rivera and the Poetry of Humberto Ak'Abal
Episode #64: Interview with Clare Murphy
Episode 62: The Firebird
Episode 61: "The Woman of the Sea" told by Regi Carpenter
The Stories We Live Inside
Episode 59: The Power of Dreams with Peter Fortunato