Pilot Waves Presents Poetry: “Outdoors Play” (recorded poem by Charles Settles)
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You can find more about Charles on Quora. His specialties include phenomenologically informed sociology of knowledge, pre-k to 12+ education, astrology, Tarot, dream analysis and more generally helping traumatized children and adults. His educational background includes doctoral credits in sociology from Brandeis University and a masters degree in elementary education from U/Mass, Boston, And everything he does is informed by a 6th sense which became active during his 12th year of life.
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Pilot Waves Presents Poetry: “We did not do drugs” (recorded poem by Debasery)
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Debasery is a very nice writer and multi-media artist from South Florida who recently moved from Brooklyn, NY to Portland, OR (whoah). Their most recent poems and visual art can be found in Ethics, exquisites, SCAB, Moral Crema, and forthcoming in Lurch Zine and Post No Bills. Their first short film, “Wisdom in the Land of Fort Lauderdale,” is available on Vimeo. You can find them irl hosting a reading series called Intrusive Thoughts. ig: @debasery
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Pilot Waves Presents Poems About Work - Charles Settles: "This Devout Servant"
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You can find more about Charles on Quora. His specialties include phenomenologically informed sociology of knowledge, pre-k to 12+ education, astrology, Tarot, dream analysis and more generally helping traumatized children and adults. His educational background includes doctoral credits in sociology from Brandeis University and a masters degree in elementary education from U/Mass, Boston, And everything he does is informed by a 6th sense which became active during his 12th year of life. This is a call to everyone: Everyone works. Everyone. We would love to...
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Pilot Waves Presents Poems About Work - Debasery: "Luxury Lobotomy"
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Debasery is a very nice writer and multi-media artist from South Florida who recently moved from Brooklyn, NY to Portland, OR (whoah). Their most recent poems and visual art can be found in Ethics, exquisites, SCAB, Moral Crema, and forthcoming in Lurch Zine and Post No Bills. Their first short film, “Wisdom in the Land of Fort Lauderdale,” is available on Vimeo. You can find them irl hosting a reading series called Intrusive Thoughts. ig: @debasery
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Pilot Waves Presents Poems About Work - Ivan Himanen: "To Sysiphus"
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I wonder if you listen to these, wondering or longing? I wonder if you listen to these with even a glimmer of desire to participate? Ivan Himanen: Born in Helsinki in 1987 to a Finnish father and Russian mother. Learned to draw before he learned to walk. Once spent an afternoon playing violin in the streets because he didn't have enough cash for an ice cream. Moved to New York City in 1993 and has dwelled there ever since. Studied fine arts at LaGuardia High School, architecture at The Cooper Union, and cities & technology at The Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia....
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Pilot Waves Presents Poems About Work - Charles Settles: "Getting Off His A**"
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Hello there, what are you waiting for? We NEED your poems for this to work. Work...get it? This is a podcast, that at this moment in time and space (right here, right now) is focused on poems, about work and labor. We are pleading with you to participate. . The stakes are high. From Merriam-Webster, the etymology. Old English werc, weorc "work, activity directed toward accomplishing something" Middle English, from Anglo-French labur, from Latin labor; perhaps akin to Latin labare to totter, labi to slip — more at SLEEP
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Pilot Waves Presents Poems About Work - Lizz Straight: "Ingratuity"
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Listen up friends. We NEED your participation to save this world. Reach out and drop us a line, we would love to feature your poem about work on this podcast. [email protected] Brief Bio | Lizz Straight Lizz, a native of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, is a prominent figure in the national spoken word community. A 3-time winner and 9-time finalist at the Southern Fried Poetry Slam, the largest active slam in the U.S., she is also the founder and former host of Poetry Is…, the world’s longest-running poetry radio show having aired weekly on on 88.5 FM in Tampa and world...
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A poem about the meaning of work
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Another wonderful person who is willing to share a heartfelt poem about their work. Won't you join us on this mission? We are trying to better our situation. Words are magic. For example, the words purple monkey. Now where did that purple monkey you imagined just now come from? The magic of language.
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Pilot Waves Presents Poems About Work: The Straw
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Here is a poem from a person who feels a certain way about their work. We invite you to particpate in this ongoing series, we will keep uploading them until someone forces us to stop. Reach out at and let's make some magic...wait, stop, reverse that...let's make some wizardry. Here is the original call: Everyone works. Everyone. We would love to feature your poem on our podcast about work. Work is what we do to thrive, survive or sometimes to just get by. A job, a gig, a discipline, a responsibility. You know...the work a.k.a. not play...
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You're All Just High
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Sometimes we are faced with circumstances and events that take us out of the mindset that a lot of us often take solace in. It's just a ride. In these moments, it helps to play a role or to vent or to make art. Or all three.
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Shawn Westfall has forged a storied career as an improvisational comedian, having performed improv for over 25 years and having taught it for seventeen. He was the exclusive teacher of improvisational comedy at the DC Improv for 12 years, inaugurating the first improv comedy class there in 2003 and helping to grow the curriculum into what’s since become the DC Improv Comedy School, which now boasts a roster of teachers and thousands of students. In 2015, Shawn left the Improv to start his own brick-and-mortar improv theater in DC, The Unified Scene Theater. His classes (and the numerous performances they generated) have been featured in The Washington Post, The Washington Post Express, Washingtonian magazine, on NPR and Washington Post Radio, and his former students include a talented roster of performing and writing talent who have graced the main stages as performers at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, The Second City Comedy Theater, The iO Comedy Theater in Chicago, and as writers on shows such as “Broad City” and “Saturday Night Live.”
But it was with local DC improv legend Mikael Johnson that both found continued and lasting success as ShawnMikael[s], an improv duo that’s played to audiences all over the country, racking up accolades, awards, and recognition during its existence, to include a monthly performance that sold out a 70-seat venue in Washington, DC for 33 months straight. Since connecting in 2010, ShawnMikael[s] has won the Harrisburg Improv Comedy Throwdown (twice), been invited to participate in multiple Washington Improv Theater runs, headlined at the DC Improv Comedy Lounge and in improv shows, festivals, and theaters all over the DC-MD-VA area. In 2011 they performed as part of the 2011 Capital Fringe Festival, playing to sold-out audiences and garnering 5-star reviews; the two were named as a “Pick of the Fringe” that year from DC Theater Scene.
Shawn is an honorably discharged veteran of The United States Air Force and holds a BA in English literature from The University of Maryland at College Park and an MA in English literature from The University of Texas at San Antonio.