The Pie Boy Podcast

131 -Dubs vs. Kings, is now available on Spotify and apple podcast. Reflections and connections through the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Dubs vs. Kings,” was written during the Warriors and Kings playoff basketball series and based on a poem prompt called 20 little projects. It’s a bunch of random directions and prompts within...

Reflections and connections through the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Said the Road to the Pothole,” is an imaginary conversation between a road and a pothole. An experiment with personification and having fun with language of the things around us, living and inanimate.

Reflections and connections through the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Funeral for Sparky,” is a meditation on the letting the things that don’t serve you anymore go so they don’t hold down who you are now and why you will do in the future. A creative writing practice on pretending to write a eulogy about someone or something tha...

Reflections and connections through the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Man in a Box,” is an exercise in placing our emotions, feelings and experiences in a box and looking at them in a creative way. Inspired by old shame, guilt, and fear that has been triggered by current happenings.

Reflections and connections through the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, "Layers," speaks to the layers of things that affect out daily lives, pushing us forward and holding us back, not to mention the past jingling around. This poem is also an exercise in not following the rules and having fun with language. We all have l...

Reflections and connections about the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poems, “Dollar & Eavesdropping,” is an ode to the Winos, neighborhood ghouls ,bus stop ghosts, and most importantly Dollar Store Wisdom. To random conversations had and heard on public transit and in the streets. Wisdom and joy can be found in the most unexpected place...

Reflections and connections about the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Cubism,” is a poem disguised as some rap bars. Inspired by the vibrations of Pink Floyd, worried feelings of a new Dad, a 90s tv show and the wild painter Pablo Picasso.

Reflections and connections about the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Try Harder,” is about the journey of realizing the fake in yourself and a call to action to try harder. It’s is also a call out to the fake in the city and holding itself back through selfishness.

Reflections and connections about the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Storyteller,” is about the craft and lifestyle of a storyteller. It’s not just a thing I do, but it’s a way of life.

Reflections and connections about the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “The History of the Poet,” is a look back on the road to being a poet, taking action on creative ideas and the humble beginnings.

Reflections and connections about the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Revolution Island,” is a meditation on visualizing yourself as a piece of nature and using personification to speak about this nature like it’s a revolutionary idea, person or movement.

Reflections and connections about the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Voicemail for Lumpy,” is a ode to a legend and great friend. I miss him dearly and getting creative helps me keep him alive. Ps - part of a series of poems I am writing for national poetry month and the write a poem a day challenge 2023. Day 10. Written 4/10/23

Reflections and connections about the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “How to be a Dad,” is the Dad & life advice I wish I would have gotten before my daughter was born.

Reflections and connections about the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Big. Big Mike.” Is a ode to a legendary Pie Boy and athlete from my childhood. From mishaps, accidents, strike outs, to catch phrases, singing songs, cracking jokes and becoming the joke, Big, Big Mike loved some life and showed a lot of love. This is a tribute...

Reflections and connections about the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Insecurity Blues” is a meditation on being insecure and the problem with taking those issues out on others, not to mention some thoughts about an experience with gun violence and staying strong in the face of danger.

Reflections and connections about the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. The featured poem, “Hello” is about the religion of head banging, the magic of live shows and the beauty in a mosh pit.

Reflections and connections about the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. Todays poem is from an assignment I did with students where we tried to think of ourselves as an object or place.

Reflections and connections about the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. Todays poem is all about riding public transit all over Portland, Milwaukie and beyond. A snap shot of all of the trauma and grace of those moments. An ode to line 33 and all the jokers I used to ride with.

Reflections and connections about the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. Todays poem is all about riding public transit all over Portland, Milwaukie and beyond. A snap shot of all of the trauma and grace of those adventures.

Reflections and connections about the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. Todays poem is all about baseball, my love affair with pitching, stories of the good old days and a tribute to an legend.

Reflections and connections about the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. Todays poem is an love letter to my favorite sneakers and special moments in my life that I wore them. Took me a lot of places.

Reflections and connections about the thoughts rolling around in my head about life, writing, storytelling and music. Todays poem, 1603 1st Street, explores the sights, sounds, tastes, feelings and smells of Tillamook, Oregon and growing up on 1st street.

Todays Poem, I Could Be From Anywhere, is inspired by where I come from. Not only the physical places,  but also the people, sights, sounds, feelings, food, music and culture. I wrote this with my students as we learned about I Am From Poems, that focused on where they come from and how we can tell those stories in creative ways. Reflections and connections about the thoughts rolling around in my...

Todays Poem, Deep Thoughts in a Shallow City, was inspired by the hard times of living through the Pandemic and delivering food for Doordash. Reflections and connections about a city, nation and world struggling to find its way and the thoughts rolling around my head about life, poetry, writing and Hip Hop. 

Todays focus will be on a poem, The Patron Saint of Nothing and my reflections and connections about writing it, sharing poetry on this podcast and a snap shot into my writing brain.