Explore poems written and read by Sue Boudreau and Deborah Bachels Schmidt, in conversation with each other, then follow your own fish to unlock your creativity, and share it with us. The podcast will air on Saturday and Sunday mornings. 

We've been friends and neighbors for many years now. Neither of us are English majors. Deborah is a published poet and the more experienced of the two of us (you can read more about her here), but also not an academic expert on poetry. We just love to write it and read it, think about it, toy with words and try to express our inner world in a way that can be understood and perhaps inspire, console, stir to action or just give a momentary jolt of pleasure in an ordinary day to a friend. Poetry is for everyone, to read, understand and write. It’s not an ivory tower privilege, it’s within us, the song of language, the ache of ideas and emotions that might be revealed with what you say with grace or by mistake.  

Our intro and outro music is "Penelope Rag" by local composer John Partridge, with flute played by our own Deborah Schmidt. Here's a video of them playing it. Thank you to both for granting us permission to use this lovely piece. The full piece is here. Most artwork is by Sue Boudreau. Please credit and request permission for outside of personal use for any of our music, poetry or artwork. 

Share YOUR work: The prompt for you to write to will emerge from the shared poems. You can email your work to us and we will promise to reply to each with only specific, positive comments, per The Round Robin Model. Round Robin is a generative writing online class invented by Jane Underwood, the founder of The Writing Salon in Berkeley, if you’d like to sign up. If you would like your work to be shared on the podcast, submit it as an email to curiositycatpodcasts@gmail.com. Record yourself reading it if you want, and include a .wav file, or give us permission to read it aloud. We will share our favorite poems on air.