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Pilot Waves

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An interview with Tristan Welch featuring poems by...

Pilot Waves ·

2025/09/29

Tristan and Alex examine how work and creativity shape our lives, from time spent at a feel-goodery factory to the experience of arranging your own mother’s funeral. They ask whether wealthy and poor people face the same struggles and why healthcare remains tied to a 40-hour workweek. The episode includes two recorded poems by Debasery (A Friend of Yours Has Other Friends and Luxury Lobotomy), a story from Alex about anarchy in action, and reflections on how nostalgia, free time, and past employers

02:33

Where Is My Cat? - A recorded poem by Charles Settles

Pilot Waves ·

2025/07/31

Maybe today we remember pets or animal companions that have touched us deeply. Perhaps today we live in honor of them. We remember the way they made us feel, or moments we shared both beautiful and tragic. We are so lucky to have animals around us all the time, working alongside us to keep this ball rolling up the hill. At this moment, let us recognize that perhaps even Sisyphus had a companion. Is this artistic license yes, but one must imagine Sisyphus happy, no?

0:31

Pilot Waves Presents Poetry - Our Mother's Earth...

Pilot Waves ·

2025/07/22

Good morning world. Today we all have choices, what shall we do with those choices? And if you know someone who doesn't have access to choices, let's start there.

0:56

Oh Me, Oh My - A 55 Second Story

Pilot Waves ·

2025/07/10

Every moment is an opportunity to connect. Every interaction with the world, be it an exchange of smiles, a quick glance, or a hello. Even the breath you take in from our beautiful mother earth and return to her carbon dioxide, an interaction that is perfect, simple, beautiful and so automatic. It is done without purposeful thinking, but the magical flip side of that is when we deeply think of this exchange with mindfulness, we are granted insight beyond our wildest dreams, provided we do it often

0:37

Pilot Waves Presents Poetry: “Outdoors Play”...

Pilot Waves ·

2025/05/12

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.

02:19

Pilot Waves Presents Poetry: “We did not do drugs”...

Pilot Waves ·

2025/05/10

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

0:30

Pilot Waves Presents Poems About Work - Charles...

Pilot Waves ·

2025/04/08

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Pilot Waves Presents Poems About Work - Debasery:...

Pilot Waves ·

2025/04/07

04:32

Pilot Waves Presents Poems About Work - Ivan Himanen:...

Pilot Waves ·

2025/03/20

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

0:44

Pilot Waves Presents Poems About Work - Charles...

Pilot Waves ·

2025/03/19

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. WeArePilotWaves@gmail.com. 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

03:40

Pilot Waves Presents Poems About Work - Lizz...

Pilot Waves ·

2025/03/18

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. WeArePilotWaves@gmail.com 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

01:23

A poem about the meaning of work

Pilot Waves ·

2025/03/16

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.

02:06

Pilot Waves Presents Poems About Work: The Straw

Pilot Waves ·

2025/03/12

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 WeArePilotWaves@gmail.com 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,

04:01

You're All Just High

Pilot Waves ·

2025/02/26

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.

05:34

Pilot Waves Presents: Labor Love a.k.a. The Love of...

Pilot Waves ·

2025/02/14

No fancy edits, no retakes, no removing of the ums or mistakes. This is art in a pure form and it demands your attention. If you want a fancy presentation, move on to the next show because we aren't for you. 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 Email: WeArePilotWaves@gmail.com Oh and happy Valentine's Day, eat some

54:07

The StageCraft Interviews: Apollo 66

Pilot Waves ·

2024/06/22

https://apollo66.bandcamp.com/ Born of the local garage rock scene, they have released a number of bootleg style recordings of their live shows on Bandcamp and released their first self-titled 5-song EP in early 2021. While at their core, they remain a garage rock band, their song writing has evolved with influences ranging from the Beatles to the Cramps. Apollo 66 hosts a monthly garage punk rock night with other local and touring bands in Silver Spring, MD. Their music has been featured on

49:53

The StageCraft Interviews: Emily Henry

Pilot Waves ·

2024/06/13

Emily Henry is a DC-based singer-songwriter who performs her own personal brand of elegant electro-infused indie pop. Known for her powerful yet sweet vocals and an authentic musical instinct, she has been compared to artists such as Joni Mitchell and Sylvan Esso. As a child, she began writing songs as soon as she was old enough to communicate. Enthralled with reading, storytelling, and fantasy, young Emily Henry would write melodies to the poems and lyrics recited by her favorite characters. She

56:11

StageCraft LIVE at Lost Origins featuring musical...

Pilot Waves ·

2024/05/18

Philip Basnight (pronounced Bas-night) shares inspirations, titillations and contemplations on the last ten years in a band, in his head and in his heart. We share the evidence of these conversations because it is important, this we do believe. Thank you to Jason Hamacher and the Lost Origins Gallery for hosting us, we hope this is the first of many showcases to come in Mount Pleasant.

01:07:41

The StageCraft Interviews: Mary-Victoria Voutsas

Pilot Waves ·

2024/02/15

Mary-Victoria Voutsas is a "powerful" and "enthralling pianist" (Washington City Paper). She has toured extensively as a pianist and classical musician; she has performed solo at many notable venues, including the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage & Terrace Theatre, the Lisner Auditorium, and many embassies. Ms. Voutsas is also one of the visiting Artists in Residency for Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts and has done accompaniment/ensemble work for the National Symphony Orchestra and artists

01:10:00

StageCraft Live with No Net - Suspect Down

Pilot Waves ·

2024/02/09

We talk about getting noticed, why not being an a**hole is important and if you are an a**hole, be consistent so we know who you are. This episode made possible by our beloved partners over at Settle For It Records. https://settleforitrecords.com/ Their new album Living Life Fast is avilable on all the streaming platforms with Bandcamp and vinyl coming soon. https://open.spotify.com/artist/1vrRKUwAeVLpENrBgwuJaO?si=5UPiWTnrQDeOoj3j8NSxUA

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