Hosted by Sue Boudreau, Deborah Bachels Schmidt · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 27 episodes
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Sue Boudreau, Deborah Bachels Schmidt hosts Follow a Fish Poetry Conversations and Inspiration, a arts show with 27 episodes published.
Sue shares a poem for her dad's eulogy, celebrating his life as a physicist, father and patriarch of the family. Here's the written poem with a photo.
A hilarious description and discussion of the wild ride of menopause sparked by Deborah's poem "Hot Flash". We remember what it was like, and how life is good on the other side. The show notes are here , and the written
Exasperation with the welling chaos just beneath the surface of our orderly lives animate this pun-filled poem that encapsulates the annoyance of dealing with the persistence of ants. Persist-ants. Show notes are here ,
A random prompt led from 'Food Delivery' to the loneliness caused by addiction to biased news and painkillers. We talk about both crises in America and about the narrative poetic form. Show notes with links are here. The
Deborah reads her Tanka Japanese form poem that starts off about one thing and turns to something much darker. A tiny and powerful heroic love story, based on a real story that you can read in our show notes, as well as
Sue and Deborah read and chat about poems they've written inspired by art, both about boats, the sea, and life's journeys. An Open Mic participant - Juniper "Beaux" Sanchez shares a beautiful poem and her art work "Story
Ekphrastic poetry is poetry inspired by art. Today, Johanna Ely, poet laureate emerita of Benicia, CA reads and discusses two poems from paintings - "Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose" which ends up with a discu
'Ars poetica' refers to any poetry or prose that considers the art of poetry, especially poems that step outside of themselves to consider their own genesis and nature. Today, Sue’s poem 'Ocean' describes her creative pr
Tom is an emeritus poet laureate of Benicia in the SF Bay Area. Today, he's performing a ‘poemSong,’ part poem and part song, which incorporates musical sounds with words. Think of an abstract work of art and how you hav
Last time we read Clare’s poem, “Deope,” for the river Deben in Suffolk, which opened questions about the importance of particular beloved places in connecting us to the natural world and building the foundation for stew
We introduce Clare Hedin, who is a singer, songwriter, and sound healer. We invited her to join us on a podcast after hearing her beautiful reading of Mary Oliver’s poem “The Journey” at our first open mic. Clare is also
In response to Teri's life's journey poem, Deborah shares the end of a journey of a mother and baby Orca based on the real story of Tahlequah, the mother carried her dead baby for 17 days. Then Sue shares a poem that des
Teri is a mover, shaker and beloved in the El Sobrante community. She wrote a poem with her son who died last year - the first she had ever written. We were so struck by it at our first poetry open mic we invited her on
Deborah and Sue continue a discussion of aging from a deeply personal perspective, this time based around Deborah's ekphrastic poem "Indietro". See our show notes for details and resources mentioned in the episode, as we
Sue reads her poem "Shape of the Body" and Deborah and I talk about the challenges but also the satisfactions of aging, even in a society that prizes youth and looks. Our show notes link to resources mentioned in our con
Deborah reads her beautiful and haunting poem "Wild" and we discuss how we live in and are part of nature, the way that she structured this piece as a poet, as well as some suggestions for how to rewild your own garden.
Restoring nature, nature restoring itself and the resilience of nature is celebrated in today's poem "Spring Break School". The conversation and the show notes highlight rewilding, with some inspiring examples. Nature lo
Today we continue our poetic exploration of the pandemic. Deborah reads her “Kneading the Challah,” which was published in the anthology Pandemic Puzzle Poems from Blue Light Press. This is a beautiful musing on the powe
Remember that terrible time that's disappearing in the rear view mirror? The sense of impending doom, the fear and isolation, before we knew exactly how it was spread and what to do to stay alive. The lock down. The grea
We read two short poems of Deborah's about wildfire, the first "Dry Lightening" is a frightening description of an approaching wildfire and if to evacuate or not, followed by "Return of the Golden Crowned Sparrows" which
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