Poems & Whiskey

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Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War Foundation Maui Strong Maui Foodbank Here 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 Links All People I Read: Roethke - Song Todd Dillard - How to Live Jane Hirshfield -...

Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War Foundation Maui Mutual Aid Maui Food Bank Maui Strong Fund You 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...

Demine the Ukraine Legacy of War Foundation Paging 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 recom...

Demining the Ukraine Legacy of War Foundation 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline or Text 988 With 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...

Ukraine Demining Project Legacy of War Foundation Domestic Violence Hotline USA 1800.799.7233 or text START to 88788 Benjamin 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...

Ukraine Demining Project Legacy of War Foundation In 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. I...

Topic? 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 i...

This 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...

In 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 t...

In 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, mu...

I 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 limi...

Jem (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 W...

Dear 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...

In 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 m...

In 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...

In 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, re...

Look. 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...

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.com instagram.com/poems.and.whiskey.podcast twitter is @PoemsWhiskeyPod Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.