Poems & Whiskey
Poems & Whiskey is the project of Michael C. It's a weird and rambly talk show that's usually pretty funny. Enough that the Spotify powers that be labeled this show 'comedy'. Now whether that means I'm funny or that I'm a joke, well... In this thing, I talk to all sorts of creative types across all levels of skill and exposure. We sit and chat about what the hell we think we're doing and have drink (or two). Pull up a chair and join us, friend. Cheers y'all! Updates every other Wednesday or so. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
To be witnessed, revealed, if even only to ourselves is why we're all muddling around in this mess. Art is to be seen, for the circuit to complete it requires engagement. Including laughter. Lean into the cringe and be free babies! To everything there is a season, turn, turn, turn etc. You know the song.
Three cheers for Chrissy Stegman!
Mentions:
To have something better, we have to dream it first. Whatever form it takes, you are allowed to create for yourself, for the joy and discovery it brings.
All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them...If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people. - Ursula K. Le Guin: The Operating Instructions in The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays...
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
*Episode contains themes of gun violence,*
THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal
before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter
than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was
stronger or quicker than anybody ...
It is worth taking hold of your creativity as participant. You're part of the show and the making is the point. "...no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow." -- K.V. Jr.
Todd's Site & Insta & Blue Sky Buy The Ways We Vanish & Ragnarök at the Father Daughter Dance
(cw: mentions of and poems read concerning sexual violence. take care y'all.)
Let's see! *cracks knuckles* John and I talk community, and community, and community this time. We are part of a community; how are we showing up for it? We often ask what we're getting out of something but what are we putting in?
And a miracle on par with other well known phenomena, we actually talk about our work and proc...
Everything was perfectly swell.
There were no prisons, no slums, no insane asylums, no cripples, no poverty, no wars.
All diseases were conquered. So was old age.
Death, barring accidents, was an adventure for volunt...
To define self, one must first be able to have the breathing room to distinguish the forest from the trees. As the spaces around letters tell us how to read them and the negative space around art gives us context for an image, so can creation gifts us opportunity for expansion and clarity. Elisheva and I turn over every card in the deck and then make up a few of our own in the damn near 3 HOUR conversation and I wouldn't trade a da...
Welcome back to Poems & Whiskey, babies! Didja miss me? I missed you. It's good to be back. Kissing you all! (Appropriately, of course.)
Charles K. Carter and I get rolling fast.
Breaking down boundaries is the name of game. Why do we insist on separating our heads from our bodies? The mind is not better than our animal selves and doesn't know more. We are consistently being told who we are, what we should be doing, and ...
🚪👁️Welcome to the Hiatus Zone 👁️🚪
Must Be Enough
ep 1.5
I read (coughcough *over act* coughcough) three pieces. Headphones are recommended.
Where We Must Look for Help : Robert Bly from Eating the Honey of Words
There Will Come Soft Rains : Ray Bradbury from The Martian Chronicles
It's a Little Anxious t...
So we meet again! Is anyone else as surprised as I am? All right. Hi, babies. This is Michael, and this whole thing is my fault. If you found Poems & Whiskey during the hiatus, things are about to change. Long form, rambling, mostly (?) sober conversations are back in about two weeks. I've got so many awesome artists lined up. Oh, God. I'm almost as nervous as I was in season one.
I do have a couple of announcements.
Th...
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A Tender Blossom
ep 1.4
I read (coughcough *over act* coughcough) three pieces. Headphones are recommended.
(at about 6:62 in show, there's an awful sound, that I did on purpose, that lasts for less than a minute. My sincerest apologies to your ears.)
The Heavenly Body : Leslie J. Anderson from Take This to Space
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Everything Might Spill
ep 1.3
I read (coughcough *over act* coughcough) three pieces.
Aubade : Kathryn Bratt-Pfontenhauer from Bad Animal
The Sea Witch Sets the Record Straight : T. Kingfisher from Toad Words and Other Stories
Ode to the Sublime ...
🚪👁️Welcome to the Hiatus Zone 👁️🚪
Before the Sun
ep 1.2
I read (coughcough *over act* coughcough) three pieces.
It is Easy to be Fascinated with Death : Jane Hirschfield from Of Gravity and Angels
In This Soul of a Woman : Charles de Lint from Love in Vein
I : Robert Hass from Pr...
Happy Hogswatch to All!
It's that time again for the P & W Holiday Special!
This year I read from L. Frank Baum's The Life and Adventures of Santa Clause. Yeah, that's the same fella who wrote The Wizard of Oz. You remember.
It all starts with a Wood Nymph breaking the rules...
Thank you for allowing me into your life, for spending your time with me. Merry Happy Winter Observations to a...
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In My Hands
ep 1.1
I read (coughcough *over act* coughcough) three pieces.
I Dreamed of Touching : George Bataille tr. Rosemary Lloyd from The Milk Bowl of Feathers
The Wife's Story : Ursula Le Guin from Buffalo Gals and other Animal Presences
Wh...
Hey you guys! Here I am like a week (?) late and let's just not say how short, hm? I'm fine, mostly. I'm getting some more character development and slogging through plot. Could use a helpful deus ex machina, btw. If anyone out there is listening lol. A little mano a mano makes light work? I'm tired.
Anyway! The Hiatus Zone is still a GO. Details in the episode but it boils down to if you wanna play still, hit me up.
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Hey y'all.
Last week was somethin, huh? Yeah. Me too. 🫀
The Hiatus Zone will soft launch next time. In this episode, I needed to share things that helped me find a foothold in the fallout and make something...well just make something, really. I needed to push back. A few dear friends offered what they had to give too. I'm scared but I'm also resourceful, creative, and brave. And so are you. You are not alone.
I love you.
F...
Happy Halloween Y'all! Trick or Treat!
What is the maddest thing a man can do? No. Not die. It's releasing an unedited podcast episode! Duh. The Horror!!!
This special is even more chaotic than usual, if you can imagine. It is 3 hours of pure, undiluted, unedited poetical puddle jumping but I don't think we actually got around to talking about poetry. We are pretty funny. Figures lol I guess the Spotify Genre Sibyls were rig...
We've got work to do! Make a plan!
It is tempting to identify with what we make, but what we produce is not the sum of our parts. We must to allow what galvanizes, to strike and use it for what we will. We are the "imperfect blessings" of creator and creature locked in the same body. Every creative act does something terrible and wonderful and it is up to us to decide what that means.
Make a plan to vote!--> We've got work to do! <--
It comes as no real surprise that the theme of this episode, and indeed the show, is self acceptance. There are as many ways to being an artist, as there are artists. Sure, it sounds trite and maybe it is. But Okay then. Trite things also get to be helpful and true. Funny, that. Anyone who's telling you there is only one way to do the thing, is just scared they're doing it ...
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