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Poems & Whiskey
by Michael Chilcutt
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 2 times a month or so on Wednesdays. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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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!...
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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…
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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 moving apart from the body Yet, subject is only pretext for assembling the words whose real story is process is flow. So the hand lurches forward, gliding back serenely, radiant with tears, a...
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Let Yourself Be Free
Evolution from the Fish This grandson of fishes holds inside him A hundred thousand small black stones. This nephew of snails, six feet long, lies naked on a bed With a smiling woman, his head throws off light Under marble, he is moving toward his own life Like fur, walking. And when the frost...
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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...
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Smile in the Dark
the pleasures of the damned by charles bukowski the pleasures of the damned are limited to brief moments of 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 hair of maidens and monsters; and…
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Searching for a Trail
Surprised By Evening by Robert Bly There is unknown dust that is near us Waves breaking on shores just over the hill Trees full of birds that we have never seen Nets drawn with dark fish. The evening arrives; we look up and it is there It has come through the nets of the stars Through the tissues...
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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...
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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 is a staying in…
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Love's the Only Thing
Demeter’s Prayer to Hades "This alone is what I wish for you: knowledge. / To understand each desire has an edge, / to know we are responsible for the lives / we change. No faith comes without cost, / no one believes without dying. / Now for the first time I see clearly the trail you planted, /...
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Trying to Tell You
🌲👁️Welcome to Hiatus Peaks 👁️🌲 Trying to Tell You ep 2.4 I read (coughcough *over act* coughcough) three pieces. Doppelgänger : Claire Malroux from Daybreak The Screaming Woman : Ray Bradbury from The Stories of Ray Bradbury "Often I remind you..." : Noelle Kocot from 4 Thanks for visiting.…
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Beautiful Creature, Incomparable
🌲👁️Welcome to Hiatus Peaks 👁️🌲 Beautiful Creature, Incomparable ep 2.3 I read (coughcough *over act* coughcough) three pieces. (plus a little Jane Hirschfield in the intro) Mefk Maru Mustir Dass : Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven from The Milk Bowl of Feathers Jemima and The Wolf : Leonora...
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Season 4 Trailer
In this trailer I say things twice for good measure but here's the gist: Season 4 is soon! 8 guests instead of 12! 2 more episodes of Hiatus Peaks! (probably) Mother Night is this year's Third Wednesday with Kurt Vonnegut Jr Lamp Lit Spring subs will open soon! Open call for this show is also…
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He is Crying
🌲👁️Welcome to Hiatus Peaks 👁️🌲 He is Crying ep 2.2 I read (coughcough *over act* coughcough) three pieces. Dialogue in the Glass Dimensions : Alice Notley from In the Pines House of Windows : Paul Tremblay from The Beast You Are Panorama of a Dream : Yves Olade from from Dark When it Gets…
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Hogswatch Special 2025
It's the P & W Holiday Special! There's a small foreword where I jabber some personal lore and propose to the 10 listeners of Hiatus Peaks, y'all know how to find me ;) Then, I read from Bagombo Snuff Box, another collection of Uncle Kurt's short stories, a little gem called, "A Present for Big...
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In Desire to Sing
🌲👁️Welcome to Hiatus Peaks 👁️🌲 In Desire to Sing ep 2.1 I read (coughcough *over act* coughcough) three pieces. Drama in Last Acts : Dean Young from Bender The Oval Lady : Leonora Carrington from The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington I Have Dreamed of You So Much : Robert Desnos from…
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I Have So Much to Feel
This was wildly uncomfortable! Why do y'all let me do this to you! Thank you for inflicting me, on myself Jaime. It was about damn time! Thank you everyone for an incredible season 3! The next time you hear from me, it will be through that mysterious medium known as Hiatus Peaks! A nice place to...
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Halloween Party 3: The Revenge
🎃🎃Happy Halloween Y'all! 🎃🎃 In my truly horrifying tradition, minimal editing was done to this. Chilling, I know! Elisheva, Kimberly, and I read some tarot then read some poems and stories. Stay well, keep safe! I read from Scary Stories for Sleep-overs by R.C. Welch and use The Wildwood…
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May I be Bolder than Today
Like a dead bird, inspiration will find you. Omen or gift, pick it up! Nothing is promised. Do it anyhow. At soul's midnight, it sings like a match. Find Hamant here! Mentions: Tales from the Crypt Lamp Lit E.R. Garrett Carroll Candy Man Naked Cat Lit (pssst lots of their stuff went to Circus...
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Howl into the Light
I don't really like traditional summaries, clearly. lol Coming to the close of s3 is something alright. Joaquin Fernandez and I do the art talk, as per. We've got; art as expression of free will, play as an intentional practice, ease not equating legitimacy, and of course, the death of happily…
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Third Wednesdays with Kurt
Hall of Mirrors by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (This episode is dedicated to Danielle. You like voices? I can give you voices. Enjoy!) Foltz and Carney are flatfoots working the dragnet on some missing rich widows and find something far stranger than they bargained for in a suspected multiple homicide.…
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Light in the Dawn
Meaning and purpose of what's made is often only focused in the rearview as you're leaving it behind. You only have to let the dark monster of creation long for what's bright. Sometimes, brightness reaches back. Go show Raye some love! Mentions: Keetje Kuipers Judith Butler Hanif Abdurraqib FBBC...
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Through the Mouth of Your Eye
What a goddamn gift it is. That we get to make things over and over again. That we get to create ourselves. What are you waiting for? Make something! No one can stop you, my dear Peeps. Natalie's Links Mentions: Courting the Wild Twin by Martin Shaw Neil Hilborn Chuck Tingle Scrivener Bread Loaf...
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Third Wednesdays with Kurt
Deer in the Works by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. David Potter is the proud father of now, two sets of twins. A big, beautiful family! It's wonderful but...what about ten years from now? Can he continue to provide on a Newspaper Man's income? How secure is it, really? And everyone knows the Works, hiring...
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To Find the Way
So you get to your goal...and then what? What makes the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves more than a re-enactment? Where we put our attention there we are, with whatever worth we give it. Quoting Hamlet here would be silly when there's a whole show to play. Cheers! Kira Cordova's links…
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To Make it True
Creativity is part of the point. It's one of the most incredible ways we have to intentionally seek connection. It belongs to all of us, and no one can stop you, so Fuck It, we ball! (It's my only drum so I'm gonna beat it!) Erika's Links In the Darkening Blue ⭐ Mentions: Alternative Milk…
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Covet all the Waning Hours
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…
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Make the Best of this Test
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.…
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Third Wednesdays with Kurt
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....
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Don't It Feel Like Something
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. Cheers babies! Todd's Site &...
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Sing to Me of Wonders Unseen
John Compton's s3 return! (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...
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Third Wednesdays with Kurt
2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. *Episode contains themes of gun violence, euthanasia, and suicide. Take care of yourselves, friends.* 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.…
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Back on the Ground
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.…
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The Promise of This New World
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…
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Must Be Enough
🚪👁️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…
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Season 3 Trailer
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...
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A Tender Blossom
🚪👁️Welcome to the Hiatus Zone 👁️🚪 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...
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Everything Might Spill
🚪👁️Welcome to the Hiatus Zone 👁️🚪 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 by Monica…
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Before the Sun
🚪👁️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 Praise Thanks…
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Hogswatch Special 2024
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... The Rankin/Bass...
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In My Hands
🚪👁️Welcome to the Hiatus Zone 👁️🚪 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 What Can I Tell...
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The Hiatus Zone 0 : What's the Difference Between a Kitchen Knife and a Sardine?
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...
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In the the Darkening Blue
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…
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Halloween Party the Seconding
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…
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Do You See Them Shining?
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…
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The Light on Your Door to Show That You're Home
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…
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Anyone's Who's Ever Had a Dream
Register to vote!--> We've got work to do! <-- In fairy tales orphaned children often must attempt a task multiple times until they get it just right to get the magic to let them go. The children must be tested though, or they won't be strong enough to actually break the spell. Which is just a…
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Be Honorable
Surprise! This is sorta kinda, not really, a Third Wednesday with Kurt. I recorded this KV speech from If This Isn't Nice, What Is? (penguin 3rd edition), Chapter 12: How to be Wise Boys and Girls from 1981, directly after the Geeks & Nerds for Harris rally last night. It's a little messy but I...
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Morning Finds You Still Warm and Breathing
Register to vote!--> We've got work to do! <-- Process, process, process, pro-cess. (I do hope you're getting all this down. It will be on the quiz.) Francesca and I dig into the tender, wet, smelly, underbelly of creation and poke at it until it squeals. (Which is how writing is made, children.)...
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The Place I Belong
**Do not be alarmed. There is a transmission from The Hiatus Zone before the show. Regularly scheduled programming will resume after the transmission.** We've got work to do! Willie Carver Jr. said it best, "I don't want anybody picking up this food and not knowing that I made it because I love...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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 2 times a month or so on Wednesdays.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
HOSTED BY
Michael Chilcutt
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