Deer Tracks
The Deer Tracks podcast is a place where creativity lives. Where our longings, our delights, our disappointments, and our passions are breathed out: marking the trail of our journey. These are the tracks we make and the ones we follow to find the deepest parts of ourselves: our true selves. During each episode, you will hear echoes of the past as well as current voices through discussions about and performances of creative works. Our goal is to build community and inspire others in their creative pursuits which is why we invite our listeners to submit their work for the opportunity of hearing it on a future episode or seeing it on our blog site by sending them james@deertrackspodcast.blog. All submissions must be appropriate for a general audience and should be original work. You can submit a recording of yourself performing your work, or you can submit the words to have James perform it; all we ask is that recordings run no longer than four minutes and thirty seconds or submissions to be read are no longer than one thousand words. Exceptions can be made based on literary form but as a general rule, we ask that submissions abide by the above criteria. For further questions, you can email those to the above email address.
Episodes
To kick things off I decided to share some old poems I wrote many moons ago. Send your poems to poetry.deertracks@gmail.com and I may just read them during a future episode.
These are the titles of the poems I read:
From the Outside In
The World was on Fire while I Slept
Flesh of my Flesh
Kind of Blue
Sharing some more poems from my store as well as one from my good friend Fr. Bryan Wandel. I also share an excerpt from a book I'm currently reading by Dean Young titled The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction.
Poems recited:
Hangman's Rope
How did I end up Alone?
Mi Amor
When the Morning Comes
Break Me Open
A Blessing for My Godson: On Your Baptism by Fr. Brya...
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The poetic voice can be heard
In the echoes of ages past
In the rise and fall of musical cadence
In the first crack of the bud blooming
In the silent circuit of the sun
Which has its beginning and end in magenta hues
This voice is in whispering trees
It thunders from the sacred mountains
It stirs the tumult and dances in the desert
Great men learned to harness its energy
Even greater me...
A sonnet, a pistol, and a Savior:
Three weapons to rewrite history's course.
The darkest of days, the sure and swift force:
One pen, one cross, and one in the chamber.
Heard in every native tongue and word-lore;
Announced in guttural groans of remorse.
Read aloud from its cover to its dorse
With each turn to drip with bitter flavor.
Better angels of our nature take flight,
And shine ethereal...
All things carved in wood and stone
Are words engraved to stand alone
Until the earth and heav'n are worn
And truer words in hearts are born
And flesh cleaves once again to bone
The human soul no more a drone
No more in sin to be forlorn
But welcomed as the veil is torn
And separated now to hone
The life within that did atone
That at the end there to adorn
The truer sons in...
Poems read (or song) during this episode:
"John Barleycorn" by Robert Burns
"Most Sweet It Is" by William Wordsworth
"A Rose" by James Kibby
"You Are The Ocean" song by Evan Anstey
Thank you to Evan for sharing his song and thank you for listening!
Submit your poem or song to poetry.deertracks@gmail.com to hear it on a future episode.
Poems read during this episode:
-The Invocation by James Kibby
-The Convert by G. K. Chesterton
-Past and Future by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
-Night by Olivia Haas
Thank you to George Lucas and John Williams for giving us a wonderful gift that will continue to inspire generation after generation.
May the 4th be with you!
POEMS FOR THIS EPISODE:
"Sonnets from the Portuguese 14: If thou must love me, let it be for nought" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"The Snow Man" by Wallace Stevens
"A Song for Mothers on Mothers’ Day" by James Kibby
"The Mother’s Return" by Dorothy Wordsworth
To submit your poems to be heard on a future episode just email them to poetry.deertracks@gmail.com
I decided to have some fun and dedicate this episode to a true American pastime: baseball. There are so many wonderful memories that I have surrounding the sport and I'm sure many other folks do as well.
Poems for this episode:
"A Ballad of Baseball Burdens" & "Baseball's Sad Lexicon" by Franklin Pierce Adams
"Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
For the final episode of this season I've thrown in some Shakespeare and an American classic by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Thank you to everyone who has tuned in and listened to these episodes. I look forward to another season!
Poems for this episode:
Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? by William Shakespeare
When the Morning Comes (Civil War Ballad) by James Kibby
...
Welcome to another season of the Deer Tracks podcast! We've got some great things in store as we voyage through new waters.
Poems for this episode:
"Over the Sea our Galleys Went" by Robert Browning
"The Forsaken Merman" by Matthew Arnold
"The Chambered Nautilus" by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Eternal Father, Strong to Save" by William Whiting
Check out o...
James sits down with Buffalo singer-songwriter Evan Anstey to discuss his two releases, Recent Time - EP (2016) & We Will Be At Peace (2018).
Here is a link to Evan's music on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1XkQuLGiy35nHEvD6pyozI
Here is a link to Evan's Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/EvanAnsteyMusic
To watch James and Evan discuss their project titled The Weekend Preacher...
James interviews painter and songwriter Olivia Haas about her work. Go to deertrackspodcast.blog to see a sample of some of her paintings as well as a video of her painting in the recording studio while working on her debut EP "Peace in the Waiting."
For more about Olivia's paintings follow her on Facebook and Instagram @livjoyartwork.
Listen to Olivia's EP "Peace in the Waiting" on platforms like Apple ...
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most prolific figures in American literature. We enjoy some of his poems on this episode:
-The Conqueror Worm
-The Haunted Palace
-"Alone"
-The Raven
To submit your work to be heard on a future episode just email it to james@deertrackspodcast.blog
Poems for this episode:
"Sonnet 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore" by William Shakespeare
"The House on the Hill" by Edwin Arlington Robinson
"Song: Memory, hither come" by William Blake
"I Love all Beauteous Things" by Robert Bridges
To submit your work to be heard on a future episode send it to: james@deertrackspodcast.blog
For this episode we hear a couple short stories:
"Hope" by Elizabeth Mitchell
"Farewell Earthlings" by Thomas H. Iak
To submit your creative work for a chance to see it on our blog site or hear it on a future episode, email it to: james@deertrackspodcast.blog
Poems for this episode:
"The Snow-Storm" by RALPH WALDO EMERSON
"A Noiseless Patient Spider" by WALT WHITMAN
"Difference" by STEPHEN VINCENT BENÉT
"The Pearl" by GEORGE HERBERT
To submit your work to be heard on a future episode send it to: james@deertrackspodcast.blog
In this episode James discusses his approach to songwriting specifically for his album One Man Garage Band.
Songs featured from the album are:
"Old John Henry"
"Wake Up From Your Dreams (Open Your Eyes)"
"Back in the Light"
To purchase a copy of James' album as well as learn more about his other projects go to: jrkibbymusic.bandcamp.com
Also, check out my fri...
We take a special look at a couple traditional ballads and some literary ballads.
Works for this episode:
"John Henry" traditional ballad performed by Pete Seeger from his Smithsonian Folkways album American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 1
"Barbary Allen" traditional ballad performed by Jean Ritchie from her Smithsonian Folkways album Jean Ritchie: Ballads from Her Appalachian Family Tradition
"Annabel Lee" ...
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