My___on Mondays

Episode 219: My Rooting and Blooming

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0600

Tiffany Eller is a poet, entertainer, and all-around creative. Her poetry explores themes of spirituality, love, and the complexities of being human. She values vulnerability and authenticity, advocating for everyone to find the freedom to Be. Her first publication, the Little Cuties coloring book, featured hand-drawn characters to encourage body positivity. Every project she finds herself poring over stems from the desire to create safe spaces for people to express themselves. Tiffany lives in Boise, Idaho, where she manages The Boise Bard Players, a nonprofit theatre company, and raises her daughter Henley. This week, she shares eight short poems.

Episode 218: My Worm Moon Spring and Other Things

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0600

Christy Claymore is a Boise-based writer, editor, and educator who enjoys running the foothills and adventuring with her kids. She has been published in the Cabin’s Writers in the Attic anthologies over the years, as well as other Treasure Valley publications. This week, she shares two poems and the opening of a novel in progress.

Episode 217: My Green and Growing Garden

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0600

Simon Schabot is a 35 mm slide collector and (creative) writer. They've presented for Storyfort, The Backyard Artists, Realms, The Spill and Address Book. Their published work is forthcoming (they promise.) In the meantime, here are three of their essays on gardening.

Episode 216: My Rocks, Stars, and Geese

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0600

This week, we have five new poems for children from Syd Bergeson, a creative writer and actor based in Boise, Idaho. Syd’s work explores nature and urban spaces.

Episode 215: My Chaotic World

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:00:00 -0600

Kelly Cox and Eric Mullis are a long-standing collaborative artist team who met on a ceramics field trip in high school in Madison, Wisconsin. Over decades of working together, they have produced work across five states and exhibited nationally and internationally. Their work investigates the dissonance between physical, digital, and psychic space, drawing on the mythologies of architecture, product display, and media spectacle. At the end of their residency at MING, Kelly and Eric met with Matt Bunk during a busy day at Artfort to talk trickery, collaboration, and appropriate responses to a chaotic world.

Episode 214: My Guided Meditation for Robots

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:00:00 -0600

Andy Wynn is a video artist and archivist originally from Boise, Idaho, now living in Sacramento, California. He has a lasting fondness for VHS scanlines. An obsessive scraper of hidden Internet corners, Andy constructs portraits of subcultures from fandoms to hate groups through video and image collages. His work is one part playful, one part political, and one part purely bizarre. This week, he shares a new audio piece: "A Guided Meditation for Robots."

Episode 213: My Sonnets

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:00:00 -0600

Elena Maddy is a writer and stage manager originally from Roseville, California, now based in Boise, Idaho. When she writes, she writes about home. This week, she shares three sonnets and three sonnet crowns.

Episode 212: My Pop Culture

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:00:00 -0600

Daniel Mosakewicz grew up on a steady diet of comics, Star Wars, and books about things that could not possibly happen. He earned his degrees in English Literature and History from Appalachian State. Originally from North Carolina, he now resides in Boise, Idaho, where he eats too much Mexican food and listens to too much Bruce Springsteen. This week, we have a live recording from his reading at MING this past week: two fiction pieces, a poem, and an essay.

Episode 211: My Thoughts on Space Travel

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:00:00 -0600

Falconers Hand is the solo project of Boise-based musician John Evans. Falconers Hand creates sound sketches: short, semi-ambient nudges toward story. This set of four sketches is A Couple Thoughts on Space Travel. John is currently at work on the first collected album of Falconers Hand sketches.

Episode 210: My Answering Machine

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:00:00 -0600

Ben Owens is a Portland local. He's a mechanic by day and a sound designer by night. This week, he shares a new piece of noise art: "Answering Machine." You can listen to more of Ben's work on episode 200: My Elevator Music.

Episode 209: My Three Walks in Three Cities

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:00:00 -0600

Around the Block is a series collecting city sounds block by block. This week, three walks in three cities: owls in the Boise hills, traffic in Sacramento, and the train station in Copenhagen. To submit a sound for this series, email matt@mingstudios.org.

Episode 208: My Future

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 08:00:00 -0600

Irina Novarese is a visual artist who works with mixed media installations, editions and video. Her works start from affinities – encounters with themes deeply related to urban spaces. She navigates them, collects data and remaps her own networks of associations, working site-specifically in the multiple contexts related to cities. This week, she shares the only recording of text from her piece DO WORDS THINK THE FUTURE? Originally conceived as a site-specific light installation, DO WORDS THINK THE FUTURE? has now taken on a new form, finally giving the promised visibility to the exchange with: Lena N., Lara B., Delilah L., Unknownxdrawing, Alexej S., Dimitrii S., Denis W., Alina V., Polina S., Angela N., and Gabriela T. Irina extends her deepest thanks to Katrin Wilczek, teacher of the 10th grade WPU art course at the Mildred-Harnack-Schule in Lichtenberg, Berlin and to the artistic direction of HIER&JETZT: Connections.

Episode 207: My HOMOS

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:00:00 -0600

A multi-disciplinary painter and mixed-media artist, McCormick creates an evolving cosmology centered on his imagined extraterrestrial society known as HOMOS, beings shaped by gay history, symbolic reclamation, and the undercurrents of pop culture. As he finished up his residency at MING, Maggi sat down with Matt Bunk for a conversation on influences, process, and what's next for the HOMOS.

Episode 206: My Winter Parade

Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:00:00 -0600

Sounds of the third annual winter parade organized by Tim Andreae. A small band of marchers advances on the Boise foothills with whistles, drums, sticks, and one trombone.

Episode 205: My Four Small Machines

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:00:00 -0600

Ruth Decker is a pianist and composer from Helena, Montana who says the aims of her compositions are to draw out the music already hidden in the instruments. This week, a set of four new pieces: "Four Small Machines". You can find more of her music on episode 196.

Episode 204: My Clay

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 08:00:00 -0600

Sam Gillespie is a writer and voice actor based in Los Angeles. He says most of his work is written in fits of insomnia. This week, he shares six short poems.

Episode 203: My One

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 08:00:00 -0600

Sequoia is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. His songs tell stories of the now, becoming an archive of the present moment. This week, he shares two songs from his project "One": "Lovebug" and "Wanna Be." The live album is available now and the full project, including video, will be rolling out online January 1, 2026.

Episode 202: My Noise Walks

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 08:00:00 -0600

Around the Block is a series collecting city sounds block by block. This week, three walks in the Linen District. To submit a sound for this series, email matt@mingstudios.org.

Episode 201: My History of Love in Eight Poems

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 08:00:00 -0600

Elena Maddy is a writer and stage manager originally from Roseville, California, now based in Boise, Idaho. When she writes, she writes about home. This week, she shares eight short poems on love. This episode is a companion to episode 198: My Temporary Intimacies and Lifelong Friends.

Episode 200: My Elevator Music

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 08:00:00 -0600

Ben Owens is a Portland local. He's a mechanic by day and a sound designer by night. This week, he shares a new piece of sound art: "Elevator Ride in Five Stops."

Episode 199: My Life (If It Is)

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 08:00:00 -0600

Logan Leavitt is an interdisciplinary artist based in Boise, Idaho. His work is rooted in place and often spontaneous. This week, he shares a new piece of sound art: "If It's Life." You can find and listen to more of his music under his name or with the band Leading Lines.

Episode 198: My Temporary Intimacies and Lifelong Friends

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 08:00:00 -0600

Elena Maddy is a writer and stage manager originally from Roseville, California, now settled in Boise, Idaho. When she writes, she writes about home. This week, she sat down with Matt Bunk to discuss exploring cities on foot and how you know when you're home.

Episode 197: My Birds and Hope

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 08:00:00 -0600

Richard Rachman is a poet and plant ecologist originally from Los Angeles, now living in Bishop, California. He writes a lot about birds, but he says he doesn't like them as much as plants. This week, he shares six new poems.

Episode 196: My Green Ribbon Suite

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 08:00:00 -0600

Ruth Decker is a pianist and composer from Helena, Montana who says the aims of her compositions are to draw out the music already hidden in the instruments. This week, she shares a suite of five original piano pieces: The Green Ribbon Suite.

Episode 195: My Ghosts and Reflections

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 08:00:00 -0600

Episode 194: My Water Walks

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 08:00:00 -0600

Around the Block is a series collecting city sounds block by block. This week, three walks in or along water: the Basque Block in the rain, the Boise River off Parkcenter, and a canal in East Meridian. To submit a sound for this series, email matt@mingstudios.org.

Episode 193: My Tooth Stories

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:00:00 -0600

Everyone has a tooth story. This week, we have readings of a few particular tooth stories collected at Address Book: Teeth. Address Book is an artist collective in Boise, Idaho creating site-specific happenings. To learn more and stay up to date on events, you can find Address Book on Instagram at @addressbookboise.

Episode 192: My Brush and Tom Turkey

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 08:00:00 -0600

Susan Lasater is a visual artist and writer whose work can be found on previous episodes of this podcast, including episodes 118 and 143, and in Paper Plane Press. With twenty-seven screws and four rods in her spine, plus a plate in her skull, she can predict the weather. This week, she reads two of her pieces.

Episode 191: My Growth Rings and Gratitude

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 09:00:00 -0600

Kiala Siman is a New Jersey-born poet, singer, and actress. Her first book of poetry, The girl in the motel room, touches on mental health, childhood trauma, and motherhood. This week, Kiala reads five new poems.

Episode 190: My Zombies on Monday

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 11:00:00 -0600

D Kopec is a poet, translator, and essayist. This week, they read the first part of their erasure poem "Walk Dad," made from The Walking Dead's pilot episode script. D's other work includes the chapbook night cries and the book-length poem biosphere 3. You can find more of their work in Equatorial Mag, Oroboro, and Paper Plane.

Episode 189: My Abundance and Scarcity

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:10:00 -0600

Mary K Johnson is an artist, designer, and experimental gardener. She sat down this week with Matt Bunk to discuss scarcity mindsets, barter systems, and building equitable communities. You can learn more about Mary K's work and find references for a number of ideas she touched on here: A Creative Asset.

Episode 188: My Night Walks

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:06:20 -0600

Around the Block is a series collecting city sounds block by block. This week, three night walks: the Greenbelt, Garden City, and the North End. To submit a sound for this series, email matt@mingstudios.org.

Episode 187: My Love's Labour's Lost

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:05:34 -0600

Love's Labour's Lost is a play full of people forcefully stating their intentions and then instantly throwing them aside. This episode is a live recording of the first scene. The Boise Bard Players' production is touring the Treasure Valley 9/4 through 9/14. You can find more information at boisebardplayers.org.

Episode 186: My Uncomfortable Music

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:15:38 -0600

Courtney Majors is a Utah-based violinist who moves around a lot. She met Matt Bunk in her cousin's suburban Boise backyard to talk vulnerability in art, the Salt Lake City LDS temple, and leaving Utah.

Episode 185: My Network Built From Barbershops

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 11:00:00 -0600

John Wicks is an actor and director focused on amplifying the quiet voices. This week, he sat down with Matt Bunk to discuss making Black theater in a state full of white people and cows.

Episode 184: My Dark Night of the Soul

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 11:00:00 -0600

Andrew Nemr is preparing to tap dance for twelve hours straight. He and Matt Bunk met to discuss burnout, rest, and the choice to endure the night. The Dark Night of the Soul is a free event at TRICA, beginning August 8th at 7 PM and ending August 9th at 7 AM. You can find more about Dark Night here: https://www.darknightlive.com/.

Episode 183: My Idaho Snapshots

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:00:00 -0600

Ten vignette poems from Sydney Bergeson, a creative writer and actor based in Boise. Sydney writes about nature, urbanization, and coming to love a new home.

Episode 182: My Three Snakes (And Other Animals)

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 18:49:11 -0600

Calvin Udall is the proud owner of three snakes, two geckos, two cats, and an uncountable number of fish. He sat down with Matt Bunk to discuss what home means to animals and what it looks like to be a caregiver when you aren't being cared for. Companion to episode 181: My Marbles, Bill, and Marcie.

Episode 181: My Marbles, Bill, and Marcie

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 18:42:20 -0600

Two essays and a poem from Calvin Udall. Calvin Udall is a poet and prose writer who is inspired by the interconnectedness of all things. Exploring pencil work, watercolors, and designing aquascapes and vivariums, he hopes to capture the beauty in the relationship between the natural world and the human condition. These three pieces are about his animals.

Episode 180: My Attempt to Thwart the Coronation

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 18:27:19 -0600

Hunter Hill is a writer and actor based in Sacramento, California. This week, a live recording of his performance at Address Book. His piece Puss-in-Suit is written as a modern companion to the 1611 masque Oberon the Fairy Prince by English dramatist Ben Jonson.

Episode 179: My Synchronicities

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 18:06:44 -0600

Chris Canfield is always running into strange little reflections in life, from revisiting his childhood home to performing the same play ten years apart. He and Matt Bunk met to discuss Shakespeare, loyalty, betrayal, and M.A.S.H.

Episode 178: My RIPARIA

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 18:01:00 -0600

Teal Gardner of the Ecogeoglyphic Observatory describes RIPARIA as a living landscape underneath capitalist forms of inhabitation. Kicking off a new series on Place, Matt Bunk sat down with Teal to picture the Boise Valley with wonder and love.

Episode 177: My Angst on the News, by Tomas Baiza, Rebecca Evans, & Christian Winn

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 10:00:00 -0600

Three Angsty Poets gathered, initially chatting about poetry, but the chatting turned to ranting. The ranting turned to rage. The bombardment of news—fake news, real news, personal news—churned into storm. Much like most poets, they took the news and created art. Well…only some of the news. Episode Twelve interrogates the news. My Angst on the News. Now more than ever, create art.

Episode 176: My Wild Plum - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:00:00 -0600

Sara Teasdale, 1884 – 1933.

Episode 175: My Temperament Circumscribed - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:00:00 -0600

Marianne Moore, 1887 - 1972.

Episode 174: My Little Jean - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 09:20:09 -0600

E. Pauline Johnson, 1861 – 1913.

Episode 173: My Worthier Image - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 10:00:00 -0600

George Eliot, 1819 – 1880.

Episode 172: My Bringer of Anthem & Light – MING Public Poetry

Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:00:00 -0600

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, 1825-1911.

Episode 171: My Angst on Music and the Written Word, by Tomas Baiza, Rebecca Evans, and Christian Winn

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 12:25:26 -0600

Three Angsty Poets gathered, initially chatting about poetry, but the chatting turned to ranting. The ranting turned to rage. The music industry bubbled to the surface, and, like most artists, they found themselves back in time—big hair, punked and metaled, and singing lyrics they’d buried long ago. This episode brings their discussion to My Angst on Music and the Written Word.

Episode 170: My Thrush Sings Sweet - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 11:13:06 -0600

Jane Austen, 1775-1817

Episode 169: My Observance of Goddess & Saint - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 03 Feb 2025 10:19:06 -0600

10th century poem attributed to Brigid of Kildare.

Episode 168: My Conversation with Lakai Cahill: MING Artist Interview

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 10:00:00 -0600

Lakai Cahill, is an 18 year old aspiring photographer who strives to create thought provoking and inspiring art, sometimes just for fun, and sometimes for a reason. In his words: "Art doesn't have to be one thing or the other and that's what I love about it the most. Art is a universal language. And it is everywhere."

Episode 167: My Conversation with Dría de Dóchas - MING Artist Interview

Mon, 20 Jan 2025 10:00:00 -0600

Dría de Dóchas is a trans-femme Latinx creative worker and interdisciplinary artist whose practice responds to imperial and colonial violence on the Earth and its inhabitants. A significant body of her work surrounds her alter ego and drag persona, the Dryad, and their existential journey as a queer embodiment of the Earth during the late stages of capitalism. Through the means and materials available to her, de Dóchas seeks to cultivate a sense of solidarity and kinship across different forms and walks of life, challenging Eurocentric notions of social, political, and economic value.

Dría attended the University of New Mexico, earning an MFA from the Art + Ecology program in the spring of 2022. Her work has been exhibited and published both nationally and internationally—most notably in the 2022 Venice Biennale—and she has contributed to and performed in internationally-exhibited, award-winning films. Dría currently teaches courses at Boise State University and The College of Idaho.

Episode 166: My Content - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 12:03:31 -0600

Zora Neale Hurston, 1891 - 1960.

Episode 165: My Angst on Resolutions and (sometimes) Revision, by Tomas Baiza, Rebecca Evans, & Christian Winn

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 10:00:00 -0600

Three Angsty Poets gathered, initially chatting about recipes and dive bars, but the chatting turned to ranting. The ranting turned to rage. The rage turned to poetry, because everything is poetic. And since it’s the start of another year, one that feels a bit bleak, the poets dove into the dark arena of resolutions and revisions.

Episode 164: My Long Companion - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 30 Dec 2024 10:00:00 -0600

William Cullen Bryant, 1794-1878.

Episode 163: My Weary Winter - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Margaret Widdemer, 1884 - 1978 Walter de la Mare, 1873 - 1956 Wallace Stevens, 1879 - 1955

Episode 162: My Voiceless, Soulless, Messenger

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Emily Bronte, 1818-1848.

Episode 161: My Father Sold Me While Yet My Tongue, by Palankeen & MING Public Poetry

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 10:00:00 -0600

The Chimney Sweeper, by William Blake, 1757-1827. Climbing Boy, by Palankeen, from the album, VOGT, 2015.

Episode 160: My Angst on Holiday Lit, by Tomas Baiza, Rebecca Evans, & Christian Winn

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Three Angsty Poets gathered, initially chatting about poetry, but the chatting turned to ranting. The ranting turned to humor, and maybe a bit of angst. The holiday pressure surfaced and they found themselves swallowed into the lights, the carols, the Scrooges, and gimmicks. Episode Nine brings their discussion on holidays, traditions, and sticking with our virtues. My Angst on Holiday Lit. No matter, create art.

Episode 159: My Railing of the Rain - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Jonathan Swift, 1667 -1745.

Episode 158: My Wakes of Spring - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 18 Nov 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Charlotte Mary Mew, 1869-1928.

Episode 157: My Angst on Politics, by Tomas Baiza, Rebecca Evans, & Christian Winn

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Three Angsty Poets gathered, initially chatting about poetry, but the chatting turned to ranting. The ranting turned to rage. The political climate became the hole, the void, they found themselves in––like most poets in America today. Episode Eight brings their discussion on politics and poetry: My Angst on Politics. Now more than ever, create art.

Episode 156: My Generations - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1900 - 1944.

Episode 155: My Angst with Literary Jerks, by Tomas Baiza, Rebecca Evans, & Christian Winn

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Three Angsty Poets gathered, initially chatting about poetry, but the conversation turned. They found themselves invigorated, inspired, and mostly miffed at the world, the gods, the past, the future... In Episode Seven, they discuss angsty thoughts: My Angst with Literary Jerks. We want to know who qualifies as a jerk in the world of literary arts—fictional characters, real life writers, the over critical professor, the characters developed in film? These can sometimes be the villains we love to hate, right?

Episode 154: My Angst on Who Can Write About Who, by Tomas Baiza, Rebecca Evans, & Christian Winn

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Three Angsty Poets gathered, initially chatting about poetry, but the conversation turned. They found themselves invigorated, inspired, and mostly miffed at the world, the gods, the past, the future... In Episode Six they discuss new angsty thoughts: My Angst on Who Can Write About Who. We want to know where the line in the sand falls when it comes to writing about all things outside of yourself. Who gets to write another’s story? Who should?

Episode 153: My Graceful Pipe - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Joseph Thomas Sheridan LeFanu,1814 - 1873.

Episode 152: My Woman of No Rest - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman,1860 - 1935.

Episode 151: My Breath on This Autumn Morning - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Carl Sandburg 1878-1967.

Episode 150: My Angst with Book-to-Movie Adaptations, by Tomas Baiza, Rebecca Evans, & Christian Winn

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Three Angsty Poets gathered, initially chatting about poetry, but the conversation turned, They found themselves invigorated, inspired, and mostly miffed and the world, the gods, the past, the future. In Episode Five they discuss angsty thoughts: My Angst with Book-to-Movie Adaptations. When done well, we love it. When dishonoring the entire point of the book, the art, the narrative arc. Well, we’ve a few words. We’ve some angst against poorly scripted or completely re-written scripts from manuscripts we love.

Episode 149: My Dawning of the Fenian - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Dawn on the Irish Coast, by John Locke, 1847-1889.

Episode 148: My Angst on Gatekeeping in Publishing, by Tomas Baiza, Rebecca Evans, & Christian Winn

Mon, 02 Sep 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Three Angsty Poets gathered, initially chatting about poetry, but the conversation turned, They found themselves invigorated, inspired, and mostly miffed and the world, the gods, the past, the future. In Episode Four, they discuss angsty thoughts: My Angst on Gatekeeping in Publishing. We want to know, who holds the keys and how can a writer earn a backstage pass OR learn the secret handshake? Are there good reasons to keep writers OUT?

Episode 147: My Resurrection Across Seasons, by Christy Claymore

Mon, 26 Aug 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Christy Claymore (she/her) is a writer, researcher, freelance editor, and former adjunct English professor. She is an emerging poet whose work has been included in the previous three anthologies published by The Cabin, as well as in "The Panorama Project," a pandemic arts segment underwritten by The Idaho Press Tribune and Surel's Place. Christy lives in Boise, Idaho where she loves supporting the arts, running in the foothills and where she enjoys raising her two wild boys. Her piece today is titled My Resurrection Across multiple seasons.

Episode 146: My Glad Felter

Mon, 19 Aug 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Pangur Bán. Anonymous 9th century poem about a man and his cat.

Episode 145: My Lady of Fragmented Lyric - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 12 Aug 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Sappho, c.620 - c.550 BCE.

Episode 144: My Books I'd Fain Cast Off - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 05 Aug 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862.

Episode 143: My Body Talks, by Susan Lasater, Maylene Cavazos, & Rebecca Evans

Mon, 29 Jul 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Three writers invite you into their reality with invisible illnesses. Susan Lasater, Maylene Cavazos, and Rebecca Evans share prose and poetry, voicing their altered day-to-day expectations of living with chronic issues.

Episode 142: My Angst on Pigeonholing Writers, by Tomas Baiza, Rebecca Evans & Christian Winn

Mon, 22 Jul 2024 11:04:14 -0600

Three Angsty Poets gathered, initially chatting about poetry, but the conversation turned, They found themselves invigorated, inspired, and mostly miffed and the world, the gods, the past, the future. In Episode Three they discuss angsty thoughts: My Angst on Pigeonholing Writers, the harm that emerges from typecasting artists, though there can be benefits. They also explore avoiding the pitfalls of pigeonholing within the publishing industry and writing community.

Episode 141: My Witness To A Man's Plea - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 15 Jul 2024 18:45:55 -0600

Robert Frost, 1874-1963.

Episode 140: My Maven of Moral Transgress

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Isabella “Isa” Blagden, 1816/17-1873.

Episode 139: My Canterbury Chronicle - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Christopher Marlowe, 1564-1593.

Episode 138: My Noveless of Night & Naught - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Djuna Barnes, 1892-1982

Episode 137: My Goitered Chapel Groan - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 17 Jun 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, 1475-1564.

Episode 136: My Dreaming King of Cabbages & Crucibles - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 10:00:00 -0600

O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) 1862-1910.

Episode 135: My Angst with Autofiction, by Tomas Baiza, Christian Winn, & Rebecca Evans

Mon, 03 Jun 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Three Angsty Poets, Tomas Baiza, Christian Winn, and Rebeca Evans, gathered again, to talk about what’s bugging them. What followed was a chat, a conversation, an argument, a connection. Here is the second episode in their series of angsty thoughts: My Angst with Autofiction, where they ask, “What’s the point?”

Episode 134: My Beating Applause to a Fearless Femme - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 27 May 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Mercedes de Acosta, 1892-1968.

My Advice on How to Talk About Pain with Your Doctor, by Susan Lasater

Mon, 20 May 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Susan Lasater is a writer, poet, and visual artist. She earned her Bachelor of Visual Arts at Boise State University and is a recipient of grants from Backyard Artists and The Alexa Rose Foundation. Susan was previously featured on Episode 118. Around Boise, you can find Susan sketching performers at readings, or writing poems about art shows while sporting a back brace and carrying a lumbar pillow. To find out more about upcoming events, zines and art, follow her on Substack: @susanlasater

Episode 132: My Angst On Your Perception, by Rebecca Evans, Tomas Baiza, & Christian Winn

Mon, 13 May 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Three Angsty Poets, Rebecca Evans, Tomas Baiza, and Christian Winn, gathered together to chat initially about poetry, but the conversation turned, and they found themselves invigorated, inspired, and mostly miffed at the world, the gods, the past, the future. Here is the first in their series of angsty thoughts: My Angst on Your Perception, where they chat about audience and readers' assumptions pressed on the narrator, the speaker, the poet.

Rebecca Evans writes the difficult, the heart-full, the guidebooks for survivors. Her work has appeared in Narratively, The Rumpus, Brevity, and more. She's earned two MFAs, one in creative nonfiction, the other in poetry, University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe. She’s authored a full-length poetry collection, Tangled by Blood (Moon Tide Press, 2023), and has a second poetry book, Safe Handling, forthcoming (Moon Tide Press, 2024). She shares space with four Newfoundlands and her sons in a tiny Idaho town.

rebeccaevanswriter.com

Tomás Baiza is originally from San José, California, and now finds himself in Boise, Idaho. He is the author of the novel, Delivery: A Pocho’s Accidental Guide to College, Love, and Pizza Delivery (Running Wild Press, 2023), and the mixed-genre collection A Purpose to Our Savagery (RIZE Press, 2023). Delivery was selected as the 2024 Treasure Valley Reads featured novel, and Tomás's writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Best of the Net, and Best American Short Stories anthologies. Tomás has fenced in Italy, been rescued by helicopter from the Sierra Nevada, fended off wild dogs while hitchhiking in rural Morelos, México, and once delivered a dozen pizzas to a Klingon-themed orgy at a sci-fi convention. When he is not writing, Tomás is running trails or obsessing over bonsai trees.

Christian Winn is a fiction writer, poet, nonfiction writer, teacher of creative writing, and producer of literary and storytelling events based in Boise, Idaho. He is the author of two story collections, NAKED ME, and What's Wrong With You is What's Wrong With Me, and the forthcoming novels, Crocodile, and My History With Careless People and Other Stories. His work has appeared in McSweeney's, Ploughshares, The Chicago Tribune's Printers Row Journal, Glimmer Train, Joyland, ExPat Press, TriQuarterly, Gulf Coast, and many other fine magazines and journals. He was the Idaho Writer in Residence, the State's highest literary honor, from 2016-2019. Find out more about Winn's writings and work at christianwinn.com

Episode 131: My Daring Birds - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 06 May 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1892-1950.

Episode 130: My Body Is A Cassette Tape, by Calvin Pineda

Mon, 29 Apr 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Calvin Pineda is a playwright, archivist, and songwriter from Kuna, Idaho, with an eye towards the whimsical, pedestrian, and spiritual. They have studied at The College Of Western Idaho, The Eugene O’Neill National Theater Institute, and Bard College. They are a theological seminary graduate, and a three-time attendee of the American Numismatic Association’s Summer Seminar. They perform with their band as Calvin Pineda and The Antacids, and moonlight as a lyricist/accordionist for the multimedia project The Band Formerly Known As PATRICIA. Their most recent project was This Sick Beat: A Ritual For The Dead: an autobiographical karaoke monologue connecting disparate themes of cassette culture, Taylor Swift, and suicidality. They enjoy pad thai, planned phone calls, and Bob Dylan's 1978 album Street Legal.

Episode 129: My Remembrance of Crowns and Rags - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 22 Apr 2024 10:00:00 -0600

De Canciones Que Oyeron Mis Ultimas Muñecas, por Maria Calcaño, 1906-1956. Of Songs Heard By My Last Dolls, by Maria Calcaño. 1906-1956.

Episode 128: My Maritime Mealtime Poem - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 10:00:00 -0600

The Walrus and the Carpenter from Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, published in 1871.

Episode 127: My Poet of the Lands and Ships - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 10:00:00 -0600

To S.M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works, by Phillis Wheatley.

Episode 126: My View of the Smoking High Place - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Porphyro In Akron by Hart Crane, 1921.

Episode 125: My Vicarious Call To Beauty - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 25 Mar 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Pan: Double Villanelle by Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900.

Episode 124: My Beans, Spiders, and Mammals by Elisabeth Sharp McKetta

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta is an award-winning writer and writing teacher and a mother of two. With a PhD on the intersections between fairy tales and autobiography, as well as a seven-year streak of writing weekly poems for strangers, she teaches writing for Oxford Department for Continuing Education and for Harvard Extension School, where she won their highest teaching award. She has authored thirteen books, most recently the personal growth guide Edit Your Life, based on the experience of living three years in a 275-square foot backyard guest house with her family of four (five, if you count the Labrador)—and the middle grade novel Ark, set during the pandemic and described by Kirkus Reviews as “infectiously hopeful.” Elisabeth co-edited the anthology What Doesn’t Kill Her: Women’s Stories of Resilience, which Gloria Steinem described as stories that “will help each of us to trust and tell our own.” Her poetry and short work have been published widely, including in The Poetry Review and Real Simple; her work with myth and memoir has been spotlighted in Harvard Magazine. Elisabeth and her family call Boise home and travel widely. (elisabethsharpmcketta.com)

Episode 123: My Conversation with Daniel Toney - MING Artist Interview

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Daniel Toney trained at East 15 Acting School in 2018/2019 and studied for three years at the University of Exeter. His first appearance was as a Musical Director and Co-Composer for the original musical Unicorns Are Red which debuted at Exeter’s Barnfield Theatre. He also co-founded the theatre company, Stage Noir, with his fellow East 15ers and performed their original show, An Unexpected Tale in Smoky Midtown at the Canal Cafe Theatre, where it received mixed reviews to sell-out audiences.

His original one-man show, Mine (or Unapologetically Autistic) premiered at the 2023 Camden Fringe Festival, where it received very positive feedback from both neurotypical and neurodiverse audience members. The show enjoyed a short run at the Etcetera Theatre at the end of 2023, and now he's bringing it to the Bridge House Theatre from the 4th-6th April this year.

His acting credits also include Funny Woman (Sky Arts), Holding Fire (Four Fig Theatre), and The Importance of Being Earniste (Matchbox Theatre).

See Mine (Or Unapologetically Autistic) at The Bridgehouse Theatre:

https://thebridgehousetheatre.co.uk/shows/mine-or-unapologetically-autistic/

Episode 122: My Songs To Fill A Dark Time - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 04 Mar 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Poems by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Christina Rosetti, Emily Bronte, and Elizabeth Jennings, read by Rebecca Evans. Rebecca Evans writes the difficult, the heart-full, the guidebooks for survivors. Her debut memoir in verse, Tangled by Blood, bridges motherhood and betrayal, untangling wounds and restorying what it means to be a mother. She’s a memoirist, essayist, and poet, infusing her love of empowerment with craft. She teaches high school teens in the Juvie system through journaling and art projects. Rebecca is also a military veteran, a practicing Jew, a self-taught gardener, and shares space with four Newfoundlands and her sons. She specializes in writing workshops for veterans and those diving deep in narrative. She co-hosts Radio Boise’s Writer to Writer show on Stray theater and does her best writing in a hidden cove beneath her stairway. https://rebeccaevanswriter.com/

Episode 121: My Lesson In An Imagined Union - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 26 Feb 2024 10:00:00 -0600

Frederick Douglass 1818-1895

Episode 120: My Self: A Song - MING Public Poetry

Mon, 19 Feb 2024 10:00:00 -0600

An excerpt from Song of Myself by Walt Whitman, read by Christy Claymore.

Christy Claymore (she/her) is a writer, researcher, freelance editor, and part-time English professor. She is an emerging poet whose work has been included in the previous five anthologies published by The Cabin, as well as in "The Panorama Project," a pandemic arts segment underwritten by The Idaho Press Tribune and Surel's Place. Christy lives in Boise, Idaho where she loves supporting the arts, running in the foothills and raising her two boys.