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Poems & WhiskeyI Have So Much to FeelThis 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. EliotLamp LitBiscuit t...
2025-11-132h 32
Poems & WhiskeyHalloween 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 Immigrants is Under AttackAcacia JusticeRandom Act...
2025-10-302h 33
Poems & WhiskeyMay I be Bolder than TodayLike 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 Immigrants i...
2025-10-162h 05
Poems & WhiskeyHowl into the LightI 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 opening, and opening into endless rooms.Cheers y'all!Joaquin's LinksFrom Joaquin:In May...
2025-10-021h 28
Poems & WhiskeyThird Wednesdays with KurtHall 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 but hey...The bird is a red-winged blackbird and I snagged the call here...
2025-09-1847 min
Poems & WhiskeyLight in the DawnMeaning 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 ThompsonAlison KaferAlbert C...
2025-09-042h 07
Poems & WhiskeyThrough the Mouth of Your EyeWhat 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 ⭐...
2025-08-211h 28
Poems & WhiskeyThird Wednesdays with KurtDeer 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 there's me...sorry bit of a let down after Kurt but hey...The...
2025-08-0734 min
Poems & WhiskeyTo Find the WaySo 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 HoranChuck TingleCarol MurphySuzanne McConnell & Kurt...
2025-07-241h 39
Poems & WhiskeyTo Make it TrueCreativity 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 and...
2025-07-101h 00
Poems & WhiskeyCovet all the Waning HoursTo 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 BeloffFrancesca LeaderGISH (I miss you.)Ruben QuesadaBlack Sq...
2025-06-121h 12
Poems & WhiskeyMake the Best of this TestTo 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 Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (2004)Amy Le Ann's tree of links🛋️ Come over to L...
2025-05-291h 24
Poems & WhiskeyThird Wednesdays with KurtHarrison 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 th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Museum...
2025-05-1520 min
Poems & WhiskeyDon't It Feel Like SomethingIt 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 to Lamp Lit and say hi! 🛋️Mentions:Okay DonkeyClaudia Rankine...
2025-05-011h 34
Poems & WhiskeySing to Me of Wonders UnseenJohn 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 talk about our work and process! I know! I'm just as surprised!Cheers y'all!"We...
2025-04-172h 31
Poems & WhiskeyThird Wednesdays with Kurt2BR02Bby 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 then there's me...sorry bit of a let down after Kurt but hey...The bird is a re...
2025-04-0322 min
Poems & WhiskeyBack on the GroundTo 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 conversation and I wouldn't trade a damn second.Anger that we're all feeling right now is a sacred thing...
2025-03-202h 56
Poems & WhiskeyThe Promise of This New WorldWelcome 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, what we should be doing, and whom we should be doing it for. Fuck that. Growth happens when we expand and accept...
2025-03-061h 57
Poems & WhiskeyMust 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 last line, I changed one word for the sake of medium. Sam Sax ordinally wrote "...that you are rea...
2025-02-2026 min
Poems & WhiskeySeason 3 TrailerSo 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 couple of announcements. Third Wednesdays with Kurt will now be a regular segment. Third Wednesdays with Kurt are...
2025-02-1203 min
Poems & WhiskeyA 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 Monkey Housethe elephants of Vietnam : Charles Bukowski from The Pleasures of the DamnedThanks for visiting. Th...
2025-02-0640 min
Poems & WhiskeyEverything 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, just step throughGood people doing good things ---> Food Not Bombs
2025-01-2322 min
Poems & WhiskeyBefore 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 Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief f...
2025-01-0937 min
Poems & WhiskeyHogswatch Special 2024Happy 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 Observations to all.Cheers!
2024-12-2635 min
Poems & WhiskeyIn 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 soon.Good people doing good things ---> TransSanta Food Not Bombs
2024-12-1927 min
Poems & WhiskeyThe 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 play still, hit me up. Here's your obvious obvious link as promised. If you're sending...
2024-12-0403 min
Poems & WhiskeyIn the the Darkening BlueHey 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 not alone.I love you.Friends:KimmieKate: You are Who I Love, Aracelis Gir...
2024-11-141h 26
Poems & WhiskeyHalloween Party the SecondingHappy 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 Spotify Genre Sibyls were right about me after all. I do cry at the end, so you have that to look forward to...
2024-11-012h 51
Poems & WhiskeyDo 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 last interview of Season 2 and I could not be more grateful to Addie Tsai...
2024-10-311h 39
Poems & WhiskeyThe Light on Your Door to Show That You're HomeMake a plan to vote!--> We've got work to do! INARA Cease Fire Today, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's FundDemine the Ukraine, Legacy of War FoundationDoctors without Borders, UNHCR, Food Not BombsRandom Acts Natural Disaster RecoveryCheers y'all!*kind reminder, all the nifty do gooders I link to, have no idea who I am and are NOT affiliated with me. I just think they're neat.**About Harvey, Dear Listener, I married him...
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Poems & WhiskeyBe HonorableSurprise! 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 there and do it! Register to Vote, make a plan, we got work to do!Geeks & Nerds for Harris To-Do...
2024-09-2618 min
2024-09-191h 11
Poems & WhiskeyThe 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 Mentions:Anne Sexton, This is How I Want to Die
2024-09-051h 57
Poems & WhiskeyDon'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) and I'll edit them together into 15 to 30 minute episodes. Clearly this is based on the Twilight Zone so use that for your base if...
2024-08-2902 min
Poems & WhiskeyThe World is Spinning FasterWe'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 it out if you want one. Oh! I also got drink coasters made if anyone wants one. Y'all should know how to...
2024-08-221h 55
Poems & WhiskeyThird Wednesdays with KurtThere'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 I could NOT for the source for. So if you know, please let me know too! Don't...
2024-08-081h 01
Poems & WhiskeyFrom 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 and let that be the description. Here's a couple doozies for ya, "We are here...
2024-07-252h 17
Poems & WhiskeyWhatever'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 say Greg brings an element of the sacred fool to his work, I could say that his...
2024-07-111h 46
Poems & WhiskeyShining Bright to SeeINARA 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 do is give 'em some ketchup. Maybe some A1? Mustard even, c'mon! Maybe that's what all this creative work is. Garnish...
2024-06-271h 39
Poems & WhiskeyWhat 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 creative act on the inner and outer world perspectives. Desire can often be a gateway to inspiration and vision, and managing your intensity is something...
2024-06-131h 10
Poems & WhiskeyThird Wednesdays with KurtINARA 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 of Penguin Random House LLC. I do alright for the most part. My German accent is very silly and my English one is...
2024-05-301h 26
Poems & WhiskeyTalk About a Dream, Try to Make it RealINARA 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 for you, and which want to feed off you. Create the world you want to see, void babies. Cheers y'all!
2024-05-161h 45
Poems & WhiskeyLove is to ShareINARA 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. There has never been a time like this one and by the grace of what have you, there may...
2024-05-022h 00
Poems & WhiskeyTill It ShinesINARA 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, in whatever form available, and the lineage of craft. Don't worry, the impact of art on personal growth, and the mysterious nature of intuitive experiences is...
2024-04-181h 38
Poems & WhiskeyChoose the Path Where No One GoesINARA 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 about fan creations, the dreaded ai, art as religion, eating lead paint, and maybe a little bit about why creating something real...
2024-04-041h 13
Poems & WhiskeyThird Wednesdays with KurtINARA 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 RosettaBooks."Pluto is a suspicious and prideful and secretive and warlike planet, with a technology far in advance of our own...
2024-03-2121 min
Poems & WhiskeyYou Can Have it All, My Sweetest FriendINARA 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 something that doesn't blatantly rip off E.E. Cummings. "Love is the whole and more than all", is the summary of this...
2024-03-072h 33
Poems & WhiskeyPeople 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 into our hardware. In all they ways we reach and try and offer glimpses of ourselves with our creations. We may be...
2024-02-221h 21
Crime Cruise: Love Boat ExposedEp30 - Doc's Underage Dilemma with Bonus Fat-Shaming!Send us a text🚨 The Doctor is continuously sexually propositioned by ... Gopher's sister. Also, she is a minor. And she wants the doc to teach her how to "love" correctly. 🔪 Jamie Lee Curtis had just starred in the original Halloween movie and now visits The Love Boat for this episode. Unfortunately, there is no Michael Myers, neither from SNL nor the classic horror film.👻 Jimmy "JJ" Walker is back!! But he's dead and a ghost. His wife literally burned him to death, which does get a pretty big laugh. Now he wants to watch her...
2024-02-0835 min
Poems & WhiskeyOh 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 always return. We also touch on connection and accountability vers shame and the importance of play. Half of creativity is putting yourself is...
2024-02-081h 54
Poems & WhiskeyI 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 Forche - The Colonel...
2024-02-0115 min
Poems & WhiskeySeason 2 TrailerCease 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 more information.
2024-02-0101 min
Crime Cruise: Love Boat ExposedEp28 - Hero Child Stops Suicide Attempt - Redemptive CruiseSend us a textEditor’s Note: If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters, please call the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing 988 to connect with a trained counselor or visit the 988 Lifeline website.🛳️ The Love Boat redeems itself a bit in it's Season 2, Episode 7 episode - a suicide is thwarted and an interesting monologue - from a child no less - saves the day. 🧛♂️ Also, Vincent Price is onboard, and he's a lady's man. It's his haunting voice you hear on the Michael Jackson hit "Thri...
2024-01-2529 min
Poems & WhiskeyThe Almost Last Third WednesdayCease 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 Please continue to say nothing about that.Cheers y'all.(A side note, the organizations...
2024-01-0407 min
Poems & WhiskeyHappy 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. Cheers y'all! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...
2023-12-2542 min
Poems & WhiskeyA Month of Third Wednesdays 3Cease 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 some way.Too all my listeners and guests past and future, I wish...
2023-12-2128 min
Poems & WhiskeyA Month of Third Wednesdays 2Cease 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 from The October Palace and Some Love by Allen Ginsberg from Plutonian Ode and...
2023-12-0709 min
Poems & WhiskeyA Month of Third WednesdaysCease 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 by Jane Hirschfield from Of Gravity & Angels.
2023-11-2307 min
Poems & WhiskeyGonna Shout Out at the Ocean with Tom SnarskyCease 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 happens. I don't have any sort of answer for it.Kind reminder No long form shows after November for about 2 months as I...
2023-11-082h 04
Poems & WhiskeyHalloween Special 2023De-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 hear any...anomalies...we might pick up. This show has very little editing for the quick turn around from Oct 30...
2023-11-013h 00
Poems & WhiskeyFree PalestineUnited 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.
2023-10-2500 min
Poems & WhiskeyOff We Go Chasing Rabbits with Cynthia AtkinsDemine 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 you put your inspiration? What are you driving toward?Thank you for being here....
2023-10-111h 21
Poems & WhiskeyDancing in the Dark with a Freak Show Pretty Boy with Dean D'MonicDemine 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 artistic and beautiful than that. Allow yourself love the things that you love, they will carry you through.
2023-09-271h 11
Poems & WhiskeyPeeping at Inspiration with Mara JebsenDemine 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 is what ever the hell we do when we are called to create. There is only one you...
2023-09-131h 37
Poems & WhiskeyThis is the Wonder of DevotionDemine 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 the Heart Wants...
2023-08-3017 min
Poems & WhiskeyJoJo'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 always, John's wonderful poetry! Make sure to catch John on Essentially Poetic...
2023-08-162h 02
Poems & WhiskeyReaching out, touching me, touching you with Caroline ReddyDemine 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 recommends hiring John Compton and I concur lol. But in all seriousness it it all c...
2023-08-022h 05
Poems & WhiskeyPoetry is a Horse, it Makes Sense all Put-together with Alejandro ShowDemining 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 aware, we discuss mental health and suicidal ideation, please keep yourselves safe.
2023-07-191h 43
Poems & WhiskeyInto the Primitive and Back Out Shiny and Bright with Benjamin BockUkraine Demining ProjectLegacy of War FoundationDomestic Violence Hotline USA1800.799.7233ortext START to 88788Benjamin and I hit all the heavy topics from our personal traumas and the paths we cut out while rebuilding the self to how we approach vulnerability and desire for all life's joys. "Sunlight is the best disinfectant" and we do our best to let it in. We open all the wounds and take turns playing St. Thomas and yes, I mean that in the gayest way possible.
2023-07-052h 31
Poems & Whiskey“We’d better get back ’cause it’ll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night...” with Seo pt 2Ukraine Demining ProjectLegacy of War FoundationIn the conclusion of this fucking delightful two-parter, Seo and I continue our impactful media (our modern day mythic journeys) discussion and how this desirous inspiration has shaped us. "If you avoid living you may never be inspired". We are allowed to break down the rules that we made up and design our own way through the world and ourselves. It is necessary, in fact. There is no one else who can crate what only you can contribute to the world. Are you listening for the...
2023-06-211h 38
Poems & Whiskey“That’s plenty. What does it mean?” with Seo pt 1Topic? What topic? Was there supposed to be topic in the episode because I certainly cant find it!! At least...not in this first part. That's right Void-of-My-Heart, this the first two-parter! Seo and I have so much to share with each other and I didn't want a bit of it lost (also a storm knocked us off recording the first night, so we did this two nights in a row). We get deep into our personal inspirations of spirit and form, other wise known as television and movies. Everything we love and regret is a part of us...
2023-06-071h 37
Poems & WhiskeyDon't be Afraid to Choose Your Own Adventure with Mandy McHughThis episode is posted a little later than normal because sometimes, when it rains, roofs cave in and that needs to be fixed. But! I got there in the end, and that's what counts, right? Right? Mandy and I chat hard and possibly a little less than clear, about what hurts and what delights. Everything from early horror novels that we devoured in middle school to television series/movies that compel us now. We share poetry and too many book recs (seriously I gave up listing them after a point lol) and if you can lasso our tangents, then...
2023-05-241h 38
Poems & WhiskeyOut of the Forest of Certainty and into Divine Doubt with Joseph FasanoIn this show, my dedicated throng of 9 to 15 people at any given moment, Joseph is eloquent and charming while I stumble along like the left-overs of a failed alchemical experiment. We touch on poetry as an act of faith and the shadow side of that being doubt. Is it possible to have one without the other? How does poetry transverse that? A poem wants to be whole, not perfect. That is something I think we all relate to as wobbly meat stuffed with meaning. As a first on this show's run, I think we actually stay pretty well on...
2023-05-101h 48
Poems & WhiskeyA Look Inside the Ghost in the Talking Box with aoife doppIn this very special episode of Poems and Whiskey, I finally come out...as a Supernatural fan! Aren't you all shocked. I hope this means we are making a deeper connection and that we can move further forward into our relationship with full honesty, together. *insufferable white prayer hands emoji* What?Aoife and I fail miserably at staying on topic but we get there eventually and again though, multiple times. This is a high tier podcast and a stand out episode of skill and cooperation. Some come on, all you bundles of meat, stuffed with meaning...
2023-04-261h 48
Poems & WhiskeyWeaving Left Over Threads into New Doors with Ryan OjedaI barely let this poet get a word in edgewise, there is something deeply, deeply wrong with me. Ryan and I have a good ol time talking about our various coping panini-majora mechanisms and he deficiently doesn't try to therapize me with his thera--ra--pizing eyes. Ryan read an exclusive! written for this show! original poem! We touch on several of the most modern of poetics, including but not limited to; the dreaded stalwart typos that survive many many many proof readings, while perhaps not death of the author but a very deep sleep of one, how important (or not...
2023-04-121h 47
Poems & WhiskeyOf Pastoral Days and Sensuous Nights with Jem FellJem (who clearly loves me the mostest for sitting with me at 3 a.m.) and I natter on and on together about the sappy, soggy Victorians, prejudice, abuses of social power/language as violence and the use of anger in poetry. This shouldn't come as a surprise, as this is what this damn show was made for after all but boy, do I ever fail to keep us on topic...ever. Maybe I should rebrand the show as Whiskey and (If You're Lucky) Poems. Jem reads from their published works as well as from his drafts, and I do...
2023-03-222h 10
Poems & WhiskeyBetween Space and the Deep Blue Sea with Leslie AndersonDear Listeners, I gotta be honest with ya. I was so struck by my admiration and joy at having Leslie in front of me, I forgot every clever thing I was hoping to dazzle with. Hopefully through the magic of editing, I still remain your stalwart just-some-sorta-guy and not just a blushing fan. Leslie and I talk about the presence of media in her writing and how it has carried her though her life, no matter what her teachers had to say. We touch on early 90s comics purchases in small Midwest shops, the shady aisles we had to...
2023-03-081h 39
Poems & WhiskeyThe Song Plays on with Andrew PrestonIn this delight of an episode Andrew and I discover, we were basiclly separated at birth about 5 years apart. From what it means to be human, to Yoko Ono to making our own alcohol, we touch on all aspects of the human experience good and bad and the performance art. Is the creation or the act of creating a part of the artist or is it the artist themselves? I also talk a lot about my own taste in music, cuz that's why ya'll are here, right? About my musical tastes. I made good choices. EMAIL...
2023-02-151h 20
Poems & WhiskeyWild Night with Nadra Varner and Samantha BurgeIn this episode we talk. A lot. Turns out creatives just don't know when or how to shut up. Nadra, Samantha and I become fast and gregarious friends. We bounce from topic to topic with nary a thread to connect between them. Enjoy, friends.If you would like me to read something of yours on the show or would like something included in the Zine, please email your writing in PDF to poemsandwhiskeypod@gmail.comPatreonNadra @poetry_vingetteSamantha @samanthajaneburgeLinks mentioned and cut...
2023-02-011h 10
Poems & WhiskeyA(nother) Sit Down with John ComptonIn this episode, that we have recorded twice now, John lets us know how he really feels about poems, poetry, and poets. As well as his food opinions and on why Rupi Kaur is like radishes. Also maybe the beginning of a new project within the Poems and Whiskey Cinematic Universe? That's up to you guys! Please be aware we do discuss a poem from his newest collection, The Castration of a Minor God, regarding a sexual assault from 36.06 to 38.20. Take care of yourselves and skip, if this topic will impact you. Below are the pertinent links. And remember...
2023-01-181h 30
Poems & WhiskeyA Curious and Rambling Conversation with Katrina PettyLook. See. There's this thing called a sacrificial pancake and this...this is that. It's a holy and beautiful thing of bumbling and burnt homunculus content. In this first episode Katrina and I do a poor job of staying on topic. She thirsts much too often over fellow poets on Instagram and I have a terrible habit of bumping my mic while also managing to speak over her multiple times. I was excited, what can I say? We do actually talk about our writing and processes, so at least that happened. Below I am listing the people or books...
2023-01-041h 31
Poems & WhiskeyPlease allow me to introduce myself...In this not an episode I explain the whole idea of this thing and tell you my email address. I also say a word in German very badly. This will likely not get any better, friends.poemsandwhiskeypod@gmail.cominstagram.com/poems.and.whiskey.podcasttwitter is @PoemsWhiskeyPodPatreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-12-1102 min
Not In My House (A Basketball Podcast)Pete Chilcutt: Chili Pete (Former UNC Player & NBA Champion)Send us a textWe have an NBA Champion on the podcast today! Pete Chilcutt shares his hoops journey from beginning to end in an episode filled with lots of laughs and great basketball stories. He is one of the elite shooters and great role players in an incredible era of basketball and it is an honor to drop this episode today!Pete Chilcutt grew up dreaming of playing for UNC. His childhood dream came true as he played all 4 years for the Tar Heels under legendary coach Dean Smith. He went...
2022-11-021h 21