Bill's Poetique

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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? Do…

Bill Watkins


    • Jan 17, 2022 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 1h 9m AVG DURATION
    • 14 EPISODES


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    Land Thieves Part One

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2022 33:40


    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...

    Making Amends: Slavery

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2019 48:34


    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"

    Merry Solstice

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2019 156:56


    Featuring Tere Joyce! The Pasadena Poets of Santa Catalina Library! Don Kingfisher Campbell! Joshua! Coco! Mr. Scott! CaLokie Carl Stillwell!

    Technical Difficulties with Don Kingfisher Campbell

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2019 59:00


    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 Frost

    Sara Berkeley Tolchin and Friends

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2019 165:17


    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... ♥️♥️♥️

    Espanglish

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2019 66:46


    Escucha bien!!! Óscar Rodríguez and I talk about and present our poem, "Espanglish"

    Honoring the Earth

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2019 42:38


    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!!!

    San Miguel del Mundo

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2019 119:31


    Be with me, I need a friend.

    Bill's Poetique (Trailer)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2019 0:59


    Wingandacoa

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2019 68:20


    I'm back with a new episode of Bill's Poetique!!!

    Seinfeld Knows

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2019 71:19


    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.

    Truth, Love and the Native American Way

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2019 77:45


    We live on stolen land, so let's talk about it. Robert Frost lives in Andrew Young, Longfellow and Donald Trump?

    Ladies Night

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2019 59:24


    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... ✌

    Bill's Poetique vol. 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2019 9:06


    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?)

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