Poems & Whiskey

Poems & Whiskey

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Poems & Whiskey episodes

  • Tales from the Ray-side

    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...

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    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 like always and you can find me over at Lamp Lit too!


    Happy Halloween to All and I'll see you again at Hogswatch!


    Cheers y'all! Love ya!


    Good people doing good things ---> Random Acts' Lantern Fund, How to Perform an Act of Kindness Locally


    Food Not Bombs,


    INARA, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund


    Legacy of War Foundation


    UNHCR,


    *I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).

    **Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.

    ***My sounds and music comes from Epidemic Sound. Theme song for this production is Colossal Terror by Jon Björk

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    29 min
  • Season 4 Update

    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 guys!


    Good people doing good things ---> Random Acts' Lantern Fund, How to Perform an Act of Kindness Locally


    Food Not Bombs,


    INARA, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund


    Legacy of War Foundation


    UNHCR,


    *I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).

    **Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.

    ***My intro is Backyard Folklore by Northside , middle is Back to Black by Rockin for Decades, and the outro is Draw Lines in the Sand by Blood Red Sun

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    8 min
  • Loud and True

    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 oxygenmasks,never messing up their hair.I met the Bishop on the road,In a coign of the cliff between high and low,In a dark time,Among wolves and periwinkles,In a station of the metro,In Breughel's great painting, The Kermess.Indeed I must confess,Indigo, magenta, color of ghee,what the hell is the color of ghee?In June amid the golden fields,In some unused lagoon, some nameless bay,In spite of all the learned say,In the depths of the Greyhound station,In this world, this isle of dreams,Intimations of mortality,In unexpected infancy,In vain, in vain—the all composing hours.Yadda yadda yadda.I saw the best minds of my generation etcetera,I saw spiders marching through the airbut let's skip this part, okay?The usual taste of liquor never brewed,the usual It is June, it is June,it is ten years since we rowed,it is 12:20 in New York a Fridaybut seems it out of battle I escapedand now I wander lonely as a cloud.I was angry with a friend,I went into the public ‘ouse for a pint o’ beer,I went to the Garden of Lovebut I wonder, do you feel today as I docaught in an index's apparatus of a thousandversions of myself but not sure I even exist?Dawns and hangovers and phone calls,nothing but silence on the other end.All this fog, a jar in Tennessee, torchesgoing out. Go down any road far enoughand you'll come to a slaughterhouse,but keep going and you'll reach the sea.


    Jen Kropinak's : Site Insta


    Mentions:


    Jam Roll Studios

    Robot Chicken

    Southern Tier Brewry

    Dethlehem

    Bottlecap Press

    Lamp Lit

    The Motherhood Center of NY

    Sarah Kendzior: The Last American Road Trip

    Salmon of Wisdom

    Women Who Run with the Wolves

    Remote Viewing

    The Green Ribbon

    The Wild Unknown Tarot

    Lindsay Mack : Tarot of the Wild Soul

    Jezmina Von Thiele : Romanistan

    J. Allen Cross

    Britton Boyd : Invoking Witchcraft

    The Mabonogi

    Supernatural

    George A Romero

    Lucille Clifton

    Mary Oliver

    Richard Brautigan

    Lawrence Ferlinghetti

    Diane di Prima

    Jack Kerouac

    William S Burroughs

    Allen Ginsberg

    Diane Seuss

    Lindsay Hunter : I'm a Writer But

    Brittany Hailor : Animal You'll Surely Become

    Ashley C Ford

    Lacy Crawford : Notes on Silencing

    Julia Fine : The Upstairs House

    MC Schmidt : How to Steal a Train

    Charlie Claire Burgess : Queer Devotion

    Washer at the Ford

    The Wicker Man

    Althaea Sebastiani : Rust of the Nail



    Good people doing good things ---> Random Acts' Lantern Fund, How to Help MN Master List , How to Perform an Act of Kindness Locally


    Food Not Bombs,


    INARA, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund


    Legacy of War Foundation


    UNHCR,


    *I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).

    **Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.

    ***My sounds and music comes from Epidemic Sound.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    3 hr 4 min
  • Become Who You Are

    x

    fr The Visible Man by Henri Cole


    To write what is human, not escapist:that is the problem of the hand movingapart from the bodyYet, subject isonly pretext for assembling the wordswhose real story is process is flow.So the hand lurches forward, gliding backserenely, radiant with tears, a millionbeings and objects hypnotizing meas I sit and stare.Not stupefied. Not aching.Today I am one. The hand jauntilyat home with evil, with unexamined feelings,with just facts.Mike and body, like spikes,like love and hate, recede pleasantly.Do not be anxious. The land remembers them.


    Tommy's links : Site ; America Apocalypse ; KO-FI ; Twitter ; Insta ; BSKY ; Shelf Talkers ; NECROPIA ;

    Mentions:


    Paramore

    Failure

    Whitley Stieber : Communion ; The Hunger

    Project Hail Mary

    Golden Shovel

    Kim Petras

    Stayyyter

    Charli XCX

    Ninajirachi

    Penelope Scott

    JSTOR

    Remote Viewing

    Kurt Vonnegut Jr : Slaughter House 5

    Gilmore Girls

    Supernatural

    Charmed

    The Smiths : How Soon is Now

    David Cronenberg : Videodrome

    Courage the Cowardly Dog



    Good people doing good things ---> Random Acts' Lantern Fund, How to Help MN Master List , How to Perform an Act of Kindness Locally


    Food Not Bombs,


    INARA, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund


    Legacy of War Foundation


    UNHCR,


    *I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).

    **Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.

    ***My sounds and music comes from Epidemic Sound.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 hr 45 min
  • Let Yourself Be Free

    Evolution from the Fish


    This 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, leaning against a pillar,he moves toward the animal, the animal with furry head!
    What a joy to smell the flesh of a new child!Like new grass! And this long man with the student girl,Coffee cups, her pale waist, the spirit moving around them,Moves, dragging a great tail into the darkness.In the dark we blaze up, drawing picturesOf spiny fish, we throw off the white stones!Serpents rise from the ocean floor with spiral motions,A man goes inside a jewel, and sleeps. DoNot hold my hands down! Let me raise them!A fire is passing up through the soles of my feet!

    — Robert Bly


    Cynthia's Site, Insta


    Mentions:

    Okay Donkey

    Psaltery & Lyre


    Good people doing good things ---> Random Acts' Lantern Fund, How to Help MN Master List , How to Perform an Act of Kindness Locally


    Food Not Bombs,


    INARA, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund


    Legacy of War Foundation


    UNHCR,


    *I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).

    **Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.

    ***My sounds and music comes from Epidemic Sound.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 hr 29 min
  • Third Wednesdays with Kurt

    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 Locally


    Food Not Bombs,


    INARA, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund


    Legacy of War Foundation


    UNHCR,


    *I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).

    **Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.

    ***My sounds and music comes from Epidemic Sound. Theme song for this production of MN is Until the World Ends by The Arch Tremors ft Lollo Gardtman

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    34 min
  • Smile in the Dark

    the pleasures of the damned by charles bukowski

    the 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,everything fine.


    Karen's Site Clean Margins Here! and Here!


    Mentions:


    Pulp Fiction

    Tim Burton

    Rondel

    Sonnet

    Lamp Lit

    Iroquois Theater Fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

    The Monkees

    Weird Al Yankovic

    The Misfits

    Star Trek

    Strange New Worlds

    Lower Decks

    NIN

    GISH

    AnteSocial

    Random Acts

    Gilda's Club

    Gilda Radner

    Gene Wilder

    Poetry School

    Nocturne Magazine



    Good people doing good things ---> Random Acts' Lantern Fund, How to Help MN Master List , How to Perform an Act of Kindness Locally


    Food Not Bombs,


    INARA, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund


    Legacy of War Foundation


    UNHCR,


    *I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).

    **Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.

    ***My sounds and music comes from Epidemic Sound.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    2 hr 7 min
  • Searching for a Trail

    Surprised By Evening by Robert Bly


    There 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 seemed born for the daylight;But at last the quiet waters of the night will riseAnd our skin shall see far off as it does under water.


    Rachel Lauren Myer's Links


    Mentions:


    Memezine

    Elise Tran

    Robert Hass

    Brenda Hillman

    Ada Limon

    Matthew Zapruder

    Wild Roof Journal

    The Archetypal Artist

    M.C. Schmidt

    Here Poetry Journal

    Jason Labbe

    Lamp Lit

    Chuck Tingle

    Gabriel Garcia Marquez

    R.M. Haines - Out of Its Wooden Brain

    Erin Belieu

    Lucas Restivo

    Battlestar Galactica


    Good people doing good things ---> Random Acts' Lantern Fund, How to Help MN Master List , How to Perform an Act of Kindness Locally


    Food Not Bombs,


    INARA, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund


    Legacy of War Foundation


    UNHCR,


    *I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).

    **Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.

    ***My sounds and music comes from Epidemic Sound.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    2 hr 6 min
  • Third Wednesdays with Kurt

    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 Kindness Locally


    Food Not Bombs,


    INARA, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund


    Legacy of War Foundation


    UNHCR,


    *I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).

    **Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.

    ***My sounds and music comes from Epidemic Sound. Theme song for this production of MN is Until the World Ends by The Arch Tremors ft Lollo Gardtman

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    31 min
  • 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 Foam



    Marcus Benjamin Ray Bradley :

    Imagining All The People: Poetry Inspired by the Characters in the Lyrics of The Beatles

    The Beatle Works LTD

    Book Baby Direct



    Mentions:

    John Compton

    Willie Carver

    Marbles on the Floor

    The Archetypal Artist

    Stephen King : On Writing

    Kurt Vonnegut and Museum

    Supernatural

    Jack Kerouac

    The Beatles

    Led Zeppelin

    Lamp Lit

    Pablo Neruda

    Nizar Qabbani

    Ghost City Review

    AWP

    OIngo Boingo

    Sierra Ferrell

    Orville Peck

    Dolly Parton


    Good people doing good things ---> Random Acts' Lantern Fund, How to Help MN Master List , How to Perform an Act of Kindness Locally


    Food Not Bombs,


    INARA, MAP, Islamic Relief for Palestine, The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund


    Legacy of War Foundation


    UNHCR,


    *I own and profit off nothing in this bizarre hubristic venture. It is a vehicle for expression, education, and artistic play (probably a little bit of a humiliation kink too if we're being honest here lol).

    **Hey hey, btw, all those do gooders I link to? They have no idea who I am and have nothing to do with me (and I like it that way). I just think they're neat.

    ***My sounds and music comes from Epidemic Sound.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    2 hr 31 min

About Poems & Whiskey

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Poems & Whiskey is the project of Michael C. It's a weird and rambly talk show that's usually pretty funny. Enough…