Poems & Whiskey
Poems & Whiskey is a talk show hosted by Michael C. that blends humor, creativity, and casual conversation. Each episode features interviews with various artists and creative individuals, discussing their work and life over a drink. The show is labeled as comedy and updates about twice a month.
Episodes
Let Yourself Be Free
Evolution from the FishThis grandson of fishes holds inside himA hundred thousand small black stones.This nephew of snails, six feet long, lies naked on a bedWith a smiling woman, his head throws off lightUnder marble, he is moving toward his own lifeLike fur, walking. And when the frost comes, he isFur, mammoth fur, growing longerAnd silkier, passing the woman's dormitory,Kissing a stomach, leani
Third Wednesdays with Kurt
Part 2 of Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jrft additional voice work by Ryan MooreHoward W. Campbell Jr. is in jail for Nazi war crimes and by all fair accounts he deserves to be there.Here is his own account for the record.How fair it is, is up for consideration.Good people doing good things ---> Random Acts' Lantern Fund, How to Help MN Master List , How to Perform an Act of Kindness LocallyFo
Smile in the Dark
the pleasures of the damned by charles bukowskithe pleasures of the damnedare limited to brief momentsof happiness:like the eyes in the look of a dog,like a square of wax,like a fire taking the city hall,the county,the continent,like fire taking the hairof maidens and monsters;and hawks buzzing in peach trees,the sea running between their claws,Timedrunk and damp,everything burning,everything wet,
Searching for a Trail
Surprised By Evening by Robert BlyThere is unknown dust that is near usWaves breaking on shores just over the hillTrees full of birds that we have never seenNets drawn with dark fish.The evening arrives; we look up and it is thereIt has come through the nets of the starsThrough the tissues of the grassWalking quietly over the asylums of the waters.The day shall never end we think:We have hair that
Third Wednesdays with Kurt
Part 1 of Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jrft additional voice work by Kristopher TerryHoward W. Campbell Jr. is in jail for Nazi war crimes and by all fair accounts he deserves to be there. Here is his own account for the record. How fair it is, is up for consideration.Good people doing good things ---> Random Acts' Lantern Fund, How to Help MN Master List , How to Perform an Act of Kindness L
To Reach You
My house says to me, “Do not leave me, for here dwells your past.”And the road says to me, “Come and follow me, for I am your future.”And I say to both my house and the road, “I have no past, nor have I a future. If I stay here, there is a going in my staying; and if I go there isa staying in my going. Only love and death change all things.”-- Kahlil Gibran from Sand and FoamMarcus Benjamin Ray Br
Love's the Only Thing
Demeter’s Prayer to Hades "This alone is what I wish for you: knowledge. / To understand each desire has an edge, / to know we are responsible for the lives / we change. No faith comes without cost, / no one believes without dying. / Now for the first time I see clearly the trail you planted, / what ground opened to waste, / though you dreamed a wealth / of flowers. / There are no curses—only mirr
Trying to Tell You
🌲👁️Welcome to Hiatus Peaks 👁️🌲Trying to Tell Youep 2.4I read (coughcough *over act* coughcough) three pieces.Doppelgänger : Claire Malroux from DaybreakThe Screaming Woman : Ray Bradbury from The Stories of Ray Bradbury"Often I remind you..." : Noelle Kocot from 4Thanks for visiting.In the Darkening Blue Updated 2.4.2026Good people doing good things ---> Random Acts' Lantern Fund, How to Help M
Beautiful Creature, Incomparable
🌲👁️Welcome to Hiatus Peaks 👁️🌲Beautiful Creature, Incomparableep 2.3I read (coughcough *over act* coughcough) three pieces. (plus a little Jane Hirschfield in the intro)Mefk Maru Mustir Dass : Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven from The Milk Bowl of FeathersJemima and The Wolf : Leonora Carrington from The Complete Stories of Leonora CarringtonHour Glass Lying Down : Alice Rahon from The Milk Bowl of Fe
Season 4 Trailer
In this trailer I say things twice for good measure but here's the gist:Season 4 is soon! 8 guests instead of 12!2 more episodes of Hiatus Peaks! (probably)Mother Night is this year's Third Wednesday with Kurt Vonnegut JrLamp Lit Spring subs will open soon!Open call for this show is also soon!So much and all so soon!Cheers y'all!In the Darkening Blue Updated 2.4.2026Good people doing good things -
He is Crying
🌲👁️Welcome to Hiatus Peaks 👁️🌲He is Cryingep 2.2I read (coughcough *over act* coughcough) three pieces.Dialogue in the Glass Dimensions : Alice Notley from In the PinesHouse of Windows : Paul Tremblay from The Beast You ArePanorama of a Dream : Yves Olade from from Dark When it Gets DarkClosing song is Forever Blue by Arch TremorsThanks for visiting. See you again real soon.Good people doing good
Hogswatch Special 2025
It's the P & W Holiday Special!There's a small foreword where I jabber some personal lore and propose to the 10 listeners of Hiatus Peaks, y'all know how to find me ;)Then, I read from Bagombo Snuff Box, another collection of Uncle Kurt's short stories, a little gem called, "A Present for Big Saint Nick". In which an obnoxious, manipulative, petty blowhard throws his annual hostage situation-
In Desire to Sing
🌲👁️Welcome to Hiatus Peaks 👁️🌲In Desire to Singep 2.1I read (coughcough *over act* coughcough) three pieces.Drama in Last Acts : Dean Young from BenderThe Oval Lady : Leonora Carrington from The Complete Stories of Leonora CarringtonI Have Dreamed of You So Much : Robert Desnos from from The Milk Bowl of FeathersClosing song is The Fire Baby by Par HagstromThanks for visiting. See you again real s
I Have So Much to Feel
This was wildly uncomfortable! Why do y'all let me do this to you! Thank you for inflicting me, on myself Jaime. It was about damn time! Thank you everyone for an incredible season 3!The next time you hear from me, it will be through that mysterious medium known as Hiatus Peaks! A nice place to visit! 🌲🌲☕🌲🌲Cheers y'all!Mentions:Todd DillardMurderbot by Martha WellsRay Bradburye.e. cummingsT.S. Eli
Halloween Party 3: The Revenge
🎃🎃Happy Halloween Y'all! 🎃🎃In my truly horrifying tradition, minimal editing was done to this. Chilling, I know! Elisheva, Kimberly, and I read some tarot then read some poems and stories.Stay well, keep safe!I read from Scary Stories for Sleep-overs by R.C. Welch and use The Wildwood TarotHurricane Melissa ReliefGood people doing good things --->Food Not BombsJail Support LA Equal Justice for
May I be Bolder than Today
Like a dead bird, inspiration will find you. Omen or gift, pick it up! Nothing is promised. Do it anyhow. At soul's midnight, it sings like a match.Find Hamant here!Mentions:Tales from the CryptLamp LitE.R.Garrett Carroll Candy ManNaked Cat Lit (pssst lots of their stuff went to Circus Collective Lit)Good people doing good things --->Food Not BombsJail Support LA Equal Justice for Immigran
Howl into the Light
I don't really like traditional summaries, clearly. lol Coming to the close of s3 is something alright. Joaquin Fernandez and I do the art talk, as per. We've got; art as expression of free will, play as an intentional practice, ease not equating legitimacy, and of course, the death of happily ever after. You know, for fun! So it goes!We are remade when we create and again in witness, doors openin
Third Wednesdays with Kurt
Hall of Mirrors by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.(This episode is dedicated to Danielle. You like voices? I can give you voices. Enjoy!)Foltz and Carney are flatfoots working the dragnet on some missing rich widows and find something far stranger than they bargained for in a suspected multiple homicide.Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Museum and Library The Website™️and then there's me...sorry bit of a let down after Kurt b
Light in the Dawn
Meaning and purpose of what's made is often only focused in the rearview as you're leaving it behind. You only have to let the dark monster of creation long for what's bright. Sometimes, brightness reaches back.Go show Raye some love!Mentions:Keetje KuipersJudith ButlerHanif AbdurraqibFBBCGISHEmmanuel LevinasKristoffer HughesSarah Fawn Montgomery Elizabeth BishopMathew RohrerRosemary Garland
Through the Mouth of Your Eye
What a goddamn gift it is. That we get to make things over and over again. That we get to create ourselves.What are you waiting for? Make something! No one can stop you, my dear Peeps.Natalie's LinksMentions:Courting the Wild Twin by Martin ShawNeil HilbornChuck TingleScrivenerBread LoafPoetry SchoolGhost Theory🛋️ Come over to Lamp Lit and say hi! 🛋️In the Darkening Blue ⭐Good people doing good th
Third Wednesdays with Kurt
Deer in the Works by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.David Potter is the proud father of now, two sets of twins. A big, beautiful family! It's wonderful but...what about ten years from now? Can he continue to provide on a Newspaper Man's income? How secure is it, really? And everyone knows the Works, hiring again, will be around for a long, long time...Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Museum and Library The Website™️and then
To Find the Way
So you get to your goal...and then what? What makes the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves more than a re-enactment? Where we put our attention there we are, with whatever worth we give it. Quoting Hamlet here would be silly when there's a whole show to play.Cheers! Kira Cordova's links and stuffMentions:Misha Collins: Some Thing I Still Can't Tell YouMellissa Febos: Body WorkSophie HoranCh
To Make it True
Creativity is part of the point. It's one of the most incredible ways we have to intentionally seek connection. It belongs to all of us, and no one can stop you, so Fuck It, we ball!(It's my only drum so I'm gonna beat it!)Erika's LinksIn the Darkening Blue ⭐Mentions:Alternative Milk MagazineS-TownLoreQuerencia PressWelcome to Night ValeTroublemaker FirestarterCesar Prieto🛋️ Come over to Lamp Lit
Covet all the Waning Hours
To be witnessed, revealed, if even only to ourselves is why we're all muddling around in this mess. Art is to be seen, for the circuit to complete it requires engagement. Including laughter. Lean into the cringe and be free babies! To everything there is a season, turn, turn, turn etc. You know the song.Three cheers for Chrissy Stegman!In the Darkening Blue ⭐Mentions:Elisheva FoxJared BeloffFrance
Make the Best of this Test
To have something better, we have to dream it first. Whatever form it takes, you are allowed to create for yourself, for the joy and discovery it brings.All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them...If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people. - Ursula K. Le Guin: The Operating Instructions in The Wave in the Min
Third Wednesdays with Kurt
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.*Episode contains themes of gun violence,*THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213
Don't It Feel Like Something
It is worth taking hold of your creativity as participant. You're part of the show and the making is the point. "...no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow." -- K.V. Jr.Cheers babies!Todd's Site & Insta & Blue Sky Buy The Ways We Vanish & Ragnarök at the Father Daughter Dance🛋️ Come over
Sing to Me of Wonders Unseen
John Compton's s3 return! (cw: mentions of and poems read concerning sexual violence. take care y'all.)Let's see! *cracks knuckles* John and I talk community, and community, and community this time. We are part of a community; how are we showing up for it? We often ask what we're getting out of something but what are we putting in?And a miracle on par with other well known phenomena, we actually t
Third Wednesdays with Kurt
2BR02Bby Kurt Vonnegut Jr.*Episode contains themes of gun violence, euthanasia, and suicide. Take care of yourselves, friends.*Everything was perfectly swell.There were no prisons, no slums, no insane asylums, no cripples, no poverty, no wars.All diseases were conquered. So was old age.Death, barring accidents, was an adventure for volunteers.Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Museum and Library The Website™️and
Back on the Ground
To define self, one must first be able to have the breathing room to distinguish the forest from the trees. As the spaces around letters tell us how to read them and the negative space around art gives us context for an image, so can creation gifts us opportunity for expansion and clarity. Elisheva and I turn over every card in the deck and then make up a few of our own in the damn near 3 HOUR con
The Promise of This New World
Welcome back to Poems & Whiskey, babies! Didja miss me? I missed you. It's good to be back. Kissing you all! (Appropriately, of course.) Charles K. Carter and I get rolling fast.Breaking down boundaries is the name of game. Why do we insist on separating our heads from our bodies? The mind is not better than our animal selves and doesn't know more. We are consistently being told who we are, wh
Must Be Enough
🚪👁️Welcome to the Hiatus Zone 👁️🚪Must Be Enoughep 1.5I read (coughcough *over act* coughcough) three pieces. Headphones are recommended.Where We Must Look for Help : Robert Bly from Eating the Honey of WordsThere Will Come Soft Rains : Ray Bradbury from The Martian ChroniclesIt's a Little Anxious to be a Very Small Animal Entirely Surrounded by Water - piglet : Sam Sax from Pig*in the second to la
Season 3 Trailer
So we meet again! Is anyone else as surprised as I am? All right. Hi, babies. This is Michael, and this whole thing is my fault. If you found Poems & Whiskey during the hiatus, things are about to change. Long form, rambling, mostly (?) sober conversations are back in about two weeks. I've got so many awesome artists lined up. Oh, God. I'm almost as nervous as I was in season one. I do have a
A Tender Blossom
🚪👁️Welcome to the Hiatus Zone 👁️🚪A Tender Blossomep 1.4I read (coughcough *over act* coughcough) three pieces. Headphones are recommended.(at about 6:62 in show, there's an awful sound, that I did on purpose, that lasts for less than a minute. My sincerest apologies to your ears.)The Heavenly Body : Leslie J. Anderson from Take This to SpaceMiss Temptation : Kurt Vonnegut from Welcome to the Monke
Everything Might Spill
🚪👁️Welcome to the Hiatus Zone 👁️🚪Everything Might Spillep 1.3I read (coughcough *over act* coughcough) three pieces.Aubade : Kathryn Bratt-Pfontenhauer from Bad AnimalThe Sea Witch Sets the Record Straight : T. Kingfisher from Toad Words and Other StoriesOde to the Sublime by Monica Vitti : Anne Carson from DecreationThanks for visiting. The Door is still open if you would like to play in the THZ,
Before the Sun
🚪👁️Welcome to the Hiatus Zone 👁️🚪Before the Sunep 1.2I read (coughcough *over act* coughcough) three pieces.It is Easy to be Fascinated with Death : Jane Hirschfield from Of Gravity and AngelsIn This Soul of a Woman : Charles de Lint from Love in VeinI : Robert Hass from PraiseThanks for visiting. See you again real soon.Good people doing good things ---> TransSanta Food Not BombsINARA Cease Fi
Hogswatch Special 2024
Happy Hogswatch to All!It's that time again for the P & W Holiday Special!This year I read from L. Frank Baum's The Life and Adventures of Santa Clause. Yeah, that's the same fella who wrote The Wizard of Oz. You remember.It all starts with a Wood Nymph breaking the rules...The Rankin/Bass productionThank you for allowing me into your life, for spending your time with me. Merry Happy Winter Ob
In My Hands
🚪👁️Welcome to the Hiatus Zone 👁️🚪In My Handsep 1.1I read (coughcough *over act* coughcough) three pieces.I Dreamed of Touching : George Bataille tr. Rosemary Lloyd from The Milk Bowl of FeathersThe Wife's Story : Ursula Le Guin from Buffalo Gals and other Animal PresencesWhat Can I Tell My Bones : Theodore Roethke from The Collected Poems of Theodore RoethkeThanks for visiting. See you again real
The Hiatus Zone 0 : What's the Difference Between a Kitchen Knife and a Sardine?
Hey you guys! Here I am like a week (?) late and let's just not say how short, hm? I'm fine, mostly. I'm getting some more character development and slogging through plot. Could use a helpful deus ex machina, btw. If anyone out there is listening lol. A little mano a mano makes light work? I'm tired.Anyway! The Hiatus Zone is still a GO. Details in the episode but it boils down to if you wanna pla
In the the Darkening Blue
Hey y'all.Last week was somethin, huh? Yeah. Me too. 🫀The Hiatus Zone will soft launch next time. In this episode, I needed to share things that helped me find a foothold in the fallout and make something...well just make something, really. I needed to push back. A few dear friends offered what they had to give too. I'm scared but I'm also resourceful, creative, and brave. And so are you. You are
Halloween Party the Seconding
Happy Halloween Y'all! Trick or Treat!What is the maddest thing a man can do? No. Not die. It's releasing an unedited podcast episode! Duh. The Horror!!! This special is even more chaotic than usual, if you can imagine. It is 3 hours of pure, undiluted, unedited poetical puddle jumping but I don't think we actually got around to talking about poetry. We are pretty funny. Figures lol I guess the Sp
Do You See Them Shining?
We've got work to do! Make a plan!It is tempting to identify with what we make, but what we produce is not the sum of our parts. We must to allow what galvanizes, to strike and use it for what we will. We are the "imperfect blessings" of creator and creature locked in the same body. Every creative act does something terrible and wonderful and it is up to us to decide what that means.This is the la
The Light on Your Door to Show That You're Home
Make a plan to vote!--> We've got work to do! <--It comes as no real surprise that the theme of this episode, and indeed the show, is self acceptance. There are as many ways to being an artist, as there are artists. Sure, it sounds trite and maybe it is. But Okay then. Trite things also get to be helpful and true. Funny, that. Anyone who's telling you there is only one way to do the thing, i
Anyone's Who's Ever Had a Dream
Register to vote!--> We've got work to do! <--In fairy tales orphaned children often must attempt a task multiple times until they get it just right to get the magic to let them go. The children must be tested though, or they won't be strong enough to actually break the spell. Which is just a long way of saying, to every time there is a season. Which is just a snotty way of saying, chill, yo
Be Honorable
Surprise! This is sorta kinda, not really, a Third Wednesday with Kurt. I recorded this KV speech from If This Isn't Nice, What Is? (penguin 3rd edition), Chapter 12: How to be Wise Boys and Girls from 1981, directly after the Geeks & Nerds for Harris rally last night. It's a little messy but I think y'all forgive me. Here's all that information I promised on how to be honorable. So get out th
Morning Finds You Still Warm and Breathing
Register to vote!--> We've got work to do! <--Process, process, process, pro-cess. (I do hope you're getting all this down. It will be on the quiz.) Francesca and I dig into the tender, wet, smelly, underbelly of creation and poke at it until it squeals. (Which is how writing is made, children.) You have to have a special sort of courage (or dumbassery) to create anything real for yourself,
The Place I Belong
**Do not be alarmed. There is a transmission from The Hiatus Zone before the show. Regularly scheduled programming will resume after the transmission.**We've got work to do!Willie Carver Jr. said it best, "I don't want anybody picking up this food and not knowing that I made it because I love them."You are loved. You belong. Poetry is community.Y'all should know how to find me by now.Names and Men
Don't Panic! This is Only a Promo!
This winter, step outside and through with me, into The Hiatus Zone.👁🤚🏻🚪When I break from interviewing this winter, I still want to create something with all y'all. Enter The Hiatus Zone!What do you need to do to join? Simple! Pick horror, spec, or surrealist poetry or flash fiction you like, or that you've written, record yourself reading it (or send me the text and I'll happily read it for you)
The World is Spinning Faster
We've got work to do! You've not come unstuck in time void babies, this episode is very late. I got the 'vid over the weekend and it pushed everything back. My dear 20 -30 weirdos who listen every other Wednesday, this is for you (and for me, mostly for me if I'm being really honest, but I'm delighted and grateful you're all here!). What say you all about that Poets Stay Human sticker? I'll figure
Third Wednesdays with Kurt
There's a short-ish ad for my winter project, The Hiatus Zone before the episode AND I have an announcement!INARA Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for Palestine The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundDemine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationDoctors without Borders UNHCRHere's your VERY OBVIOUS LINK I tackle the last two chapters from my Dell edition of Slaughter-House 5 and a tiny section that
From Win and Lose and Still Somehow
*There is a short-ish promo for The Hiatus Zone before the episode begins*INARA Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for Palestine The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundDemine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationDoctors without Borders UNHCRSunk cost is a vile lie. The urge to create, is inherent to humanity and you are not lost to yourself. Pam says so many good things I should just make a list an
Whatever's Written in Your Heart
*There is a short-ish promo for The Hiatus Zone before the episode begins*INARA Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for Palestine The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundMutual Aid Diabetes Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationDoctors without Borders UNHCRExcuse me, waiter? I would like 10 more Greggi Glenn please. Hm? Yes, in a box. Thank you. Oh! And some breadsticks, thanks again!I could sa
Shining Bright to See
INARA Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for Palestine The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundMutual Aid Diabetes Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationDoctors without Borders UNHCRIn Caroline's shining return we hit the themes of death and rebirth on a creative level hard. It would be fair to call it the theme of this episode. The snake is forever eating their tail, the least someone could d
What Puts the Rhythm On?
INARA Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for Palestine The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundMutual Aid Diabetes Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationDoctors without Borders UNHCRTerrel Hale is one of the real ones, guys. We talk about letting go of the illusion of power, about poetry communicating first without need for understanding, and the effects of the transformative nature of the cre
Third Wednesdays with Kurt
INARA Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for Palestine The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundMutual Aid Diabetes Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationDoctors without Borders UNHCRI said I was gonna do it and I did by damn! In the second TWK, I read the first two chapters from the 50th Anniversary edition of Slaughterhouse-Five : The Children's Crusade released by Modern Library a division o
Talk About a Dream, Try to Make it Real
INARA Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for Palestine The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundMutual Aid Diabetes Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationDoctors without Borders UNHCRJohn Compton is back and better than ever, announcing his political campaign for 2028. Vote John Compton! Just kidding, just kidding...or are we?It keeps coming back to community, doesn't it? Which communities care
Love is to Share
INARA Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for Palestine The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundMutual Aid Diabetes Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationDoctors without Borders UNHCRWhen it comes right down to it, it's all about love isn't it? As cliche as it is, it doesn't make it any less true. Jason O'Toole, is right. We are in a golden age of writing and communicating and yes, loving. Ther
Till It Shines
INARA Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for Palestine The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundMutual Aid Diabetes Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationDoctors without Borders UNHCRTilly and I talk about how inspiration can be recognition of possibility, and how can be the opposite of desire, as desire is a lack, whereas inspiration is an opening. We discuss the importance of mentorship,
Choose the Path Where No One Goes
INARA Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for Palestine The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundMutual Aid Diabetes Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationDoctors without Borders UNHCRWhat is art and its worth? What makes something art and not-art? Pretentious and overreaching? Probably! But we're honest about it. Val and I hit lots of gongs and pans and make some good noise I think. We talk abo
Third Wednesdays with Kurt
INARA Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for Palestine The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundMutual Aid Diabetes Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationDoctors without Borders UNHCRI read chapter 11, Why Social Justice Does More Than Art to Nourish the American Dream (1972) from the third edition of, If This isn't Nice, What Is? The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By, released by
You Can Have it All, My Sweetest Friend
INARA Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for Palestine The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundMutual Aid Diabetes Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationDoctors without Borders UNHCRJaime Lilley took her DAMN sweet time getting her expat ass in the hot seat! It was worth it though. Telling ourselves the stories of ourselves, we move through fields of was and march towards breads of truth. Or s
People Don't You Listen Now?
Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for Palestine The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundMutual Aid Diabetes Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationDoctors without Borders UNHCRKate Pyontek and I discuss how human legacy is creation. In the way that birds sing, we are driven to create. That impetus to move and change something, to make something exist where it didn't before, seems to be baked i
Oh What You Do Mickey, Do Mickey!
Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for Palestine The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundMutual Aid Diabetes Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationDoctors without Borders UNHCRFree Palestine! Cease Fire Now!Mickey Godding and I make tasty, tasty figurative soup in this Season 2 Premiere. We talk about the journey that is creation, using it to understand ourselves, and how our personal themes a
I Come with Good News!
Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for Palestine The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundMutual Aid Diabetes Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationDoctors without Borders UNHCRThis is it! The last episode of this humilating learning experience of a hiatus! Guests are coming next week! Cheers, y'all.I read:Aracelis Girmay - You are who I loveRemi Kanazi - This Poem Will Not End ApartheidCarolyn
Season 2 Trailer
Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for Palestine The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundMutual Aid Diabetes Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationDoctors without Borders UNHCRPretty much what is says on the tin. This is the trailer for Season 2. I say some unfunny things and forget to say guests come back next week. Cheers, y'all!See you Soon!Cheers! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for
The Almost Last Third Wednesday
Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for Palestine The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundMaui Strong Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationDoctors without Borders UNHCRWe're in the home stretch babies! Actual guests coming soon!I read from Night Sequence from leafdrift by Dennis Brutus and Bivouacked & Garrisoned Capitol and Restoration Ode from Bender by Dean Young. I am clearly tired lol
Happy Hogswatch!
Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for PalestineMaui Strong Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationDoctors without Borders UNHCRHappy Hogswatch, to you all! I hope remembered to put out the sherry and pies. I know I did.I read a portion of The Hogfather by Terry Pratchett and a speech by Kurt Vonnegut.Free Palestine forever! Ceasefire!Happy happy what happy you have. Take care and keep well.
A Month of Third Wednesdays 3
Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for PalestineMaui Strong Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationDoctors without Borders UNHCRI talk a lot about hope and the lack of it here. I then read a book excerpt and several poems. Thank you Jaime, Katrina, Tom, Mandy, Love Oliver, Caitlin, John and others who may not have a chance to respond but were still there to let me bounce off my thoughts in so
A Month of Third Wednesdays 2
Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for PalestineMaui Strong Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationHello Void-Kin. I chit some chat about what's been knocking round the pot during this simmering period and then I read Hirschfield (yes again) and Ginsberg (also yes again).I want to hear from you guys! You know more or less who I am. Who are you??I read The House in Winter by Jane Hirschfield f
A Month of Third Wednesdays
Cease Fire Today MAP Islamic Relief for PalestineMaui Strong Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationAnd here we are! The first A Month of Third Wednesdays! This is a short 'un with an update that I've pretty well talked about before but now I've named it! It's official now. I made an image and everything!I want to hear from you guys! You know more or less who I am. Who are you??I read Lullabye
Gonna Shout Out at the Ocean with Tom Snarsky
Cease Fire Today US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Donate for Gaza Doc Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationMAP Islamic Relief USA UNRWADr Ghassan Abu-SittaTom and I talk of the ills of social media, how we navigate creativity, draw some connections between coins, redemption and stigmata and of course that funny thing we hope to invoke, inspiration. A strange thing with a dime also happen
Halloween Special 2023
De-Mine the Ukraine Random Acts Legacy of WarMedical Aid for Palestine Islamic Relief USAHappy Halloween my lovely void folx! This episode is just what it says on the tin and is somehow more structured and less structured than my typical format. John, Mandy, Nichole, Seo and I get all the spooky ooky with Tarot readings and light seance. I did not add music to the body of the show to hopefully hea
Free Palestine
United Nation Relief and WorksMotaz AzaizaMedical Aid for PalestiniansIslamic Relief USACall Congress: Cease Fire NowFree Palestine. Cease fire now.I read a Najwan Darwish poem and direct you here to the notes.Stay loud. Stay safe. Take care.Cheers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Off We Go Chasing Rabbits with Cynthia Atkins
Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War Foundation Random Acts Maui StrongMedical Aid for Palestinians Islamic ReliefCynthia and I put it all out there as we talk about our worlds. Politics and perspective and social media, oh my! It is the breaks in our viewpoints, the distortions, that give definition. How we manage our edges is how we mange our lives. We are the orchestrators of everything. Where do
Dancing in the Dark with a Freak Show Pretty Boy with Dean D'Monic
Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War Foundation Random Acts OrgMaui Food Bank Maui StrongDean is one of my favorite people on this Earth and he will be one of yours too. We talk how our exposure to a certain show about 2 Brothers (cough*Supernatural*cough) helped us to find our way through ourselves and with our art. Everything Dean does comes from, is created for, and with love. There is nothing more
Peeping at Inspiration with Mara Jebsen
Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationMaui Mutual Aid Maui StrongMara is much smarter than I am but graciously, she does not mention it. We chat about words as family systems and ways to and through the cycles of inspiration. We touch on isolation and separation and what those viewpoints have brought to us. We also fail, as all other poets before us have failed, in describing the mystery that
This is the Wonder of Devotion
Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War FoundationMaui Strong Maui FoodbankHere is another reading. I give a little life update in the beginning but mostly I just read. I have been thinking a lot about the nature of inspiration and how we navigate it. These are some pieces where I feel that reflected. Cheers. y'all!My LinksAll People I Read:Roethke - SongTodd Dillard - How to LiveJane Hirshfield - What t
JoJo's Back, Back Again...
Demine the UkraineLegacy of War FoundationMaui Mutual AidMaui Food BankMaui Strong FundYou know him, you love him and here he is again! John updates us on the things he's been up to since AWP and then some. We talk about our favorite horror movies and genre's and we make plans for a Very Special Halloween Episode of Poems & Whiskey. At the end we share our stories of the supernatural and as al
Reaching out, touching me, touching you with Caroline Reddy
Demine the UkraineLegacy of War FoundationPaging David Harbour, Caroline would like to have word with you.Caroline and I talk and talk and talk and generally have a merry old time. We discuss finding the people to support us and our goals and how, cliché as it may sound, all things do happen in their own time. We hit on the dreaded fallow times of low creation and ways to cope. She highly recommen
Poetry is a Horse, it Makes Sense all Put-together with Alejandro Show
Demining the UkraineLegacy of War Foundation988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline orText 988With a pen in one hand and a riding crop in the other, Alejandro and I discuss communities, how our places within them creates the templet of ourselves, and how they inform the work. How important it is too, that your community be one that has your best interests at heart. Wanting to be known is not a sin.Be awar
