Bill's Poetique: Recent Episodes
Bill Watkins
This is, quite simply, the best podcast out there. (Believe me) Trump is no poet! But I am... I'll dive into words lovingly and usurpingly, slurp into birds, diving and frolicking, flying furiously into philosophical patterns lacking plans until truth is found while letting go and letting... God? Does the term bother you? Are you an atheist? Me too! Wait, you said a theist, right? I'm a theist, you? Lol. Let's be friends and talk about beautiful words. Poetry... Beautiful truth!!! ๐ฌ๐ง๐บ๐ธ๐ฎ๐น๐๐๐๐บ๐ธ
The first episode of Bill's audiobook, Land Thieves, which presents three family memoirs found in the heart of American sin. Robert Watkyns of Talgarth, Wales is born, grows up and finds his way to Elizabethan London's theatre scene...
A look through music, a poem and an iconic speech at the sin of slavery and its children. B9, Greg Foster and MLK's "Dream"
Featuring Tere Joyce! The Pasadena Poets of Santa Catalina Library! Don Kingfisher Campbell! Joshua! Coco! Mr. Scott! CaLokie Carl Stillwell! ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฒ
Fun, SHORT show, featuring a brief, but botched interview with my friend and poet Don Kingfisher Campbell. We'll hope to finish our interview and POEM next week, a Christmas/Holiday episode (Comedian Tere Joyce planning to stop by for an X-mas poem) -- Dickenson, Andrew Young, John Ferguson, Watkins Harper, Maya Angelou, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Dylan Thomas and Frost๐
What an honor to have the voice, poetry and talent of Sarah Berkeley Tolchin on my show this week. I put her to work reading from her latest book of poems, "What Just Happened." (Sentient 2016) -- I learned a lot, I hope you will too. Be inspired, celebrate good times and know they don't exist without overcoming life's challenges. Mansfield, Wilcox, Longfellow are back as well, Angelou and Frost to end with thoughts of Lao Tzu, Jorge Luis Borges, and oneness of the infant silence to which we all sail... โฅ๏ธโฅ๏ธโฅ๏ธ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
Escucha bien!!! รscar Rodrรญguez and I talk about and present our poem, "Espanglish"๐๐ Keep an open mind, judge not and have a listen. Also more Wilcox, Longfellow, Frost, Harper and Watkins ๐๐๐๐๐๐โฅ๏ธโฅ๏ธโฅ๏ธ
I studied this time for a tight, sweet show of poetry. Longfellow, Frost, Wilcox, Gascoigne, Tolchin, Ferguson, Andrew Young and I express our love for Earth and life through verse, have a listen!!! ๐๐๐โฅ๏ธโฅ๏ธโฅ๏ธ๐
Be with me, I need a friend. ๐๐๐ I wrote muchos poemas this week, why this episode is longer than most. Ella's back, Longfellow, Spanish, English, bilingual and more!!
I'm back with a new episode of Bill's Poetique!!! ๐๐๐โฅ๏ธโฅ๏ธ๐ฏ๐น๐น Cool beans and verbal rice, sauteed over mountains and Mexican writers' paradise. I'm vegetarian now, and healthy because I decided to be. ๐๐๐ Journey with me to the real name for "Virginia" before conquering British people vainly changed that name. Poems, poems, y poemas in Spanish! ๐ณ Give me your ears, and I'll usurp them for God, land and truth. (Jk) I am a recovering land thief and drunk... Here are some poems๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
Bill challenges norms, bills and teds. Comedy can wait; anything to surprise, stir up and wake the soul, slumbering peacefully blissed until a word from Longfellow, Frost or Irish poets wounded by war.
We live on stolen land, so let's talk about it. Robert Frost lives in Andrew Young, Longfellow and Donald Trump? ๐ฌ Ogden Nash is a blast, native drums and Dylan Thomas crash!
Katherine Mansfield. 'Nuff said, She's sexy, cute, smart and playful, imaginative, sultry, hot and mystical!! Let's be with her, time machine back to 1910, hang out, lay naked on the grass, and love... I throw in two of my own poems, talk Wife of My Youth and "Circumcision." Peace from the Regenerative Collective breeds music, and we dance into tomorrow in love with words and possibilities... โ๐นโคโคโค๐๐๐๐bw'19๐๐๐๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐๐๐
Bill introduces himself as the greatest poet of all-time. No. Just kidding. (It's true) We talk about poetry, art, publishing, and why do it all. It's fast, so don't blink. Just kidding (no I'm not). First podcast here!! I hope I like it!! (You there?)