Poems & Whiskey

Welcome to Tales from the Ray-side, in which I terrify you with a dark and thrilling story by Ray Bradbury. I'll not spoil the chills but beware listener, monsters are very real and come in many forms...even one called Father... . That's a wrap on season 4 of Poems & Whiskey! Thank you all! I will be on hiatus until 2027. I know! Who would have thought? My contact information is below...

Well, babies, I did not mean to miss all of August and most of September... Here's the important bits: Mother Night here to own and here for free Season finale Halloween Party IV is recording 10pm cst on October 16th. FIND ME HERE IF WANNA PARTY NO Hiatus Project this year, but actually writing! Shocking, I know! Hogswatch Special will be as planned. Season 5 open call in January! I love you g...

If Thou Dislik'st What Thou First Light'st On -Dean Young fr First Course in Turbulence I had come to the house, in a cave of trees, I had dreamed of the perfect gray pants, I have a life that did not become, a young sister made of glass. I have done it again. I like a church, I like a cowl, I like the look of agony. I love the old melodious lays, I love it when they demonstrate the oxygen masks,...

x fr The Visible Man by Henri Cole To write what is human, not escapist: that is the problem of the hand moving apart from the body Yet, subject is only pretext for assembling the words whose real story is process is flow. So the hand lurches forward, gliding back serenely, radiant with tears, a million beings and objects hypnotizing me as I sit and stare. Not stupefied. Not aching. Today I am one...

Evolution from the Fish This grandson of fishes holds inside him A hundred thousand small black stones. This nephew of snails, six feet long, lies naked on a bed With a smiling woman, his head throws off light Under marble, he is moving toward his own life Like fur, walking. And when the frost comes, he is Fur, mammoth fur, growing longer And silkier, passing the woman's dormitory, Kissing a stoma...

Part 2 of Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jr ft additional voice work by Ryan Moore Howard 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 Loca...

the pleasures of the damned by charles bukowski the pleasures of the damned are limited to brief moments of 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 hair of maidens and monsters; and hawks buzzing in peach trees, the sea running between their claws, Time drunk and damp, everything burning,...

Surprised By Evening by Robert Bly There is unknown dust that is near us Waves breaking on shores just over the hill Trees full of birds that we have never seen Nets drawn with dark fish. The evening arrives; we look up and it is there It has come through the nets of the stars Through the tissues of the grass Walking quietly over the asylums of the waters. The day shall never end we think: We have...

Part 1 of Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut Jr ft additional voice work by Kristopher Terry Howard 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 Kindnes...

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 is a staying in my going. Only love and death change all things.” -- Kahlil Gibran from Sand and Foam Marcus Benjamin R...

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...

🌲👁️Welcome to Hiatus Peaks 👁️🌲 Trying to Tell You ep 2.4 I read (coughcough *over act* coughcough) three pieces. Doppelgänger : Claire Malroux from Daybreak The Screaming Woman : Ray Bradbury from The Stories of Ray Bradbury "Often I remind you..." : Noelle Kocot from 4 Thanks for visiting. In the Darkening Blue Updated 2.4.2026 Good people doing good things ---> Random Acts' Lantern Fund , H...

🌲👁️Welcome to Hiatus Peaks 👁️🌲 Beautiful Creature, Incomparable ep 2.3 I 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 Feathers Jemima and The Wolf : Leonora Carrington from The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington Hour Glass Lying Down : Alice Rahon from The Milk Bo...

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 Jr Lamp 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 2.4.2026 Good people doing goo...

🌲👁️Welcome to Hiatus Peaks 👁️🌲 He is Crying ep 2.2 I read (coughcough *over act* coughcough) three pieces. Dialogue in the Glass Dimensions : Alice Notley from In the Pines House of Windows : Paul Tremblay from The Beast You Are Panorama of a Dream : Yves Olade from from Dark When it Gets Dark Closing song is Forever Blue by Arch Tremors Thanks for visiting. See you again real soon. Good people...

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 situatio...

🌲👁️Welcome to Hiatus Peaks 👁️🌲 In Desire to Sing ep 2.1 I read (coughcough *over act* coughcough) three pieces. Drama in Last Acts : Dean Young from Bender The Oval Lady : Leonora Carrington from The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington I Have Dreamed of You So Much : Robert Desnos from from The Milk Bowl of Feathers Closing song is The Fire Baby by Par Hagstrom Thanks for visiting. See you ag...

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 Dillard Murderbot by Martha Wells Ray Bradbury e.e. cum...

🎃🎃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 Tarot Hurricane Melissa Relief Good people doing good things ---> Food Not Bombs Jail Support LA Equal...

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 Crypt Lamp Lit E.R. Garrett Carroll  Candy Man Naked Cat Lit (pssst lots of their stuff went to Circus Collective Lit) Good people doing good things ---> Food Not Bombs Jail Support LA Equal Justice f...

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 openi...

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 Kur...

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 Kuipers Judith Butler Hanif Abdurraqib FBBC GISH Emmanuel Levinas Kristoffer Hughes Sarah Fawn Montgomery  Elizabeth Bishop Mathew Rohrer Rose...

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 Links Mentions: Courting the Wild Twin by Martin Shaw Neil Hilborn Chuck Tingle Scrivener Bread Loaf Poetry School Ghost Theory 🛋️ Come over to Lamp Lit and say hi! 🛋️ In the Darkening Blue ⭐ Good people...

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 the...