Song 1: “Day Never Comes,” composed and performed by David R. Merrill.

Poem 1: “Leda and the Swan” by Nobel prize-winning poet W. B. Yeats, composed in 1923 and first printed in 1924.

Fiction: “The Secret Pool,” by Lynn C. Miller, excerpted from her first novel The Fool’s Journey, 2002 (Winedale Press). In press is the novel The Surrogate for 2026.  www.lynncmiller.com

Feed the Cat Break: “The Legend of the Myth” by John V. Modaff

Poem 2: “Another Story” by poet Hilda Raz, from a story that inspired Yeats and many others about the beautiful Leda and the god-turned-swan Zeus. In New and Collected Poems, Letter from a Place I’ve Never Been, from University of Nebraska Press, 2022.

Song 2: “The Old Monsters Rest Home,” by John V. Modaff.

Episode artwork by Lynda Miller

Show theme and incidental music by John V. Modaff , BMI

The Unruly Muse is Recorded in Albuquerque, NM and Morehead, KY and produced at The Creek Studio

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