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Today the garden is full of poems from Patrick Farris, Oscar Garcia, Al Williams, and Sarah Gill. Truly a gift. Enjoy.
Imaginary Toads made a call to the community for poems and they answered - we have two guest poets Carley Senioris and Chase Tomerlin offering their hearts and souls - along with Patrick and Will as per usual.
Reading a few of Wills poems and reading some other works by Langston Hughes and Ted Kooser.
Have you ever written a poem for someone? What about in response to another? Would you write us a poem?
How does music alter a poem? Patrick and Will work through how song writing changes how we write poems. How music shifts poems into another dimension. We play some of our original songs and we even mumble someone else. We laugh and cry - its a special time we are glad to share with you!
Where does the poem sit with you ? Do you feel the words coming off your lips? Does the pen dragging across the paper send signals directly to your brain? What does the physical conception of our ideas, art, and poems manifest? Where is the incarnation of the poem?
A developling theme continues into this episode from the last - what is your passion? where does it come from? How does it change the way you live? How does it walk around? How does it bend the light around you ?
Patrick and Will discuss the way we use language, and why we , you, or anyone continues making art. And of course we use poems. Enjoy.
Patrick opens with a cover of Adele. We read and think through some Wendell Berry poems, and then we read a poem Patrick and Will Wrote together this week.
if you stay to the end you'll hear a recitation of part of an Allen Ginsburg poem rapped over a Beat by the Infamous Nico Garza.
Enjoy and share with your friends, write us some poems, read ours out load with your close knit friend group.
Patrick and Will wrote a poem everyday for a week. Some are unfinished, some of them are just the beginning or the skeleton of a poem
Patrick and Will read through a few poems before landing on an Audre Lorde "Who Said it was Simple". and then we discuss one of our own taking us to new depths of death.
Sepereated for the holidays - Patrick writes a lullaby of noise and memories, and Will maps out a conversation and the poems projected outward from those ideas tapped into.
Patrick and Will look to the isolation we felt through the pandemic and the feeling of clarity and hope we might have found in-spite.
Poems and thoughts on the only animal species that hold democratic elections on who is in-charge. We are joined by a local poet from here in SATX- he should be president.
Patrick and Will are joined by Griffin Young and Micah Leaverton - our dearest friends. We read a poem and discuss what it might mean.
Patrick and Will Read through their poems they wrote during the pandemic. Light a candle, pour a glass of wine, a pen and paper - and Tune in.
We pick up right after our conversation from the introductory episode, the audio is from the same night. We Start reading the poems we wrote at the beginning of the quarantine, and our conversation talks about what legacy are humans leaving. What legacy are you leaving.
Imaginary Toads is a poetry podcast where Will and Patrick process our word with the tool that is poetry.
This is the episode will be an introduction to our thoughts and ideas. We start by reading a poem by Marianne Moore called "Poetry" and then we work through it.