MY ON MONDAYS

EPISODE 177 03/31/2025

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.

My___on Mondays explores the possessive “My” through narratives, art and sound.

Every Monday, we publish a new audio, performance or experimental piece where only one rule applies: the title must begin with the determiner “My”.

We invite artists, performers and storytellers worldwide to submit their unique approach and perspectives to this concept.

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MoM ARCHIVE

EPISODE 176 03/24/2025

Sara Teasdale, 1884 – 1933.

EPISODE 175 03/17/2025

Marianne Moore, 1887 - 1972.

EPISODE 174 03/10/2025

E. Pauline Johnson, 1861 – 1913.

EPISODE 173 03/03/2025

George Eliot, 1819 – 1880.

EPISODE 172 02/24/2025

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, 1825-1911.

EPISODE 171 02/17/2025

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. Episode Eleven brings their discussion to My Angst on Music and the Written Word.

EPISODE 170 02/10/2025

Jane Austen, 1775-1817.

EPISODE 169 02/03/2025

10th century poem attributed to Brigid of Kildare.

EPISODE 168 01/27/2025

Lakai Cahill, is an eighteen 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 01/20/2025

Interview with artist Dría de Dóchas, MING Studios' artist-in-residence DEC 24 / JAN 25. 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.

EPISODE 166 01/13/2025

Zora Neale Hurston, 1891 - 1960.

EPISODE 165 01/06/2025

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 12/30/2024

William Cullen Bryant, 1794-1878.

EPISODE 163 12/23/2024

My___on Mondays Episode 163: Margaret Widdemer, 1884 - 1978 - Walter de la Mare, 1873 - 1956 - Wallace Stevens, 1879 - 1955

EPISODE 162 12/16/2024

Emily Bronte, 1818-1848.

EPISODE 161 12/09/2024

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

EPISODE 160 12/02/2024

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 of the series brings their discussion on holidays, traditions, and sticking with our virtues. My Angst on Holiday Lit. No matter, create art.

EPISODE 159 11/25/2024

Jonathan Swift, 1667 -1745.

EPISODE 158 11/18/2024

Charlotte Mary Mew, 1869-1928.

EPISODE 157 11/11/2024

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 of the series brings their discussion on politics and poetry: My Angst on Politics. Now more than ever, create art.

EPISODE 156 11/04/2024

Antoine de Saint Exupery - 1900 - 1944.

EPISODE 155 10/28/2024

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 10/21/2024

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 of the series 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 10/14/2024

Joseph Thomas Sheridan LeFanu,1814 - 1873.

EPISODE 152 09/30/2024

Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman,1860 - 1935.

EPISODE 151 09/23/2024

Carl Sandburg 1878-1967.

EPISODE 150 09/16/2024

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 Five of the series, they discuss angsty thoughts: My Angst with Book-to-Movie Adaptations. When done well, we love it. When it dishonors 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 09/09/2024

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

EPISODE 148 09/02/2024

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 08/26/2024

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 08/19/2024

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

EPISODE 145 08/12/2024

Sappho, c.620 - c.550 BCE.

EPISODE 144 08/05/2024

Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862

EPISODE 143 07/29/2024

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.
Rebeca: @rebeccawrites33 www.rebeccaevanswriter.com
Maylene: @maylenecavazos www.maylenecavazos.com
Susan: @susanlasater_art www.susanlasater.substack.com

EPISODE 142 07/22/2024

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 07/15/2024

Robert Frost, 1874-1963.

EPISODE 140 07/08/2024

Isabella “Isa” Blagden, 1816/17-1873.

EPISODE 139 07/01/2024

Christopher Marlow, 1564-1593.

EPISODE 138 06/24/2024

Djuna Barnes, 1892-1982

EPISODE 137 06/17/2024

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, 1475-1564.

EPISODE 136 06/10/2024

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

EPISODE 135 06/03/2024

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 05/27/2024

Mercedes de Acosta, 1892-1968.

EPISODE 133 05/20/2024

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 05/13/2024

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.

EPISODE 131 05/06/2024

Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1892-1950.

EPISODE 130 04/29/2024

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 04/22/2024

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 04/15/2024

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

EPISODE 127 04/08/2024

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

EPISODE 126 04/01/2024

Porphyro in Akron by Hart Crane, 1921.

EPISODE 125 03/25/2024

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

EPISODE 124 03/18/2024

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 3/11/2024

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

EPISODE 122 03/04/2024

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. rebeccaevanswriter.com

EPISODE 121 02/26/2024

Frederick Douglass 1818-1895

EPISODE 120 02/19/2024

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.

EPISODE 119 02/12/2024

Vassilis Kritikos was born in Athens in 1954. He studied electrical engineering and headed an IT company for 33 years. From a young age, having lived and loved the cultural movement of the decade preceding the dictatorship in Greece in 1967, he became interested in music, theater, and cinema. He has been involved in photography for over forty years. In 2006, he founded “Eilissos” - a company for culture - with the aim of expression but also helping artists. His book of photographs, Moment of a Journey, was published in 2020. www.eilissos.gr

EPISODE 118 02/05/2024

Susan Lasater is a writer, poet, and painter. She earned a BA in Visual Arts from Boise State University. Her work explores the nature of invisible disability through visual representations of pain and healing. She writes about her rare conditions, the travels for treatment across the country, and the antics of living with another artist and their two adventurous dogs who star in illustrations at Ardilla Fusion. When she’s not creating, you can find her suggesting interior design adjustments to her husband and researching how to garden without bending, twisting, or lifting, all while managing the effects of her body’s often unstable, faulty connective tissue.

EPISODE 117 01/29/2024

My___on Mondays Episode 117: Jodeen Revere is a long time Boise actor and performer. She has worked with Boise Contemporary Theater, Migration Theory, Alley Rep and Homegrown Theater. She does commercials, voice overs, radio spots and a variety of independent films.

Her first reading at Ming in 2019 became the springboard for her solo show The Persistent Guest, which has gone on to have its’ world premiere at BCT in 2022, followed by a stripped-down touring version which was performed at The Spot in Ketchum and United Solo Fest in New York City in 2023. She will be taking the show back out into the world throughout 2024 performing at Fringe Festivals and small black box theaters around the country.

She has been a contributor of original work for Campfire Stories, The Bloom Series and a featured storyteller twice for Story Story Night. She most recently did two nights of holiday readings at The Mode in December. This is her third offering for My___on Mondays.

EPISODE 116 01/22/2024

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.

She's earned two MFAs, one in creative nonfiction, the other in poetry, University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe. Her poems and essays have appeared in Narratively, The Rumpus, Hypertext Magazine, War, Literature & the Arts, The Limberlost Review, and more, along with a handful of anthologies.

She’s co-edited an anthology of poems, when there are nine, a tribute to the life and achievements of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Moon Tide Press, 2022). Her full-length poetry collection, a memoir-in-verse, Tangled by Blood (Moon Tide Press. 2023), is available wherever fine books are sold. rebeccaevanswriter.com

EPISODE 115 01/15/2024

Calvin Pineda makes music, poetry, and theater with an eye towards the whimsical, pedestrian, and spiritual. They are from Boise, Idaho, and 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. Their most recent albums were released on September 8th-- 'And What Shall We Wear,' an undergraduate gender meditation; and 'Zines From The Duplex Nursing Home,' recorded into a discount eBay cassette deck. They perform with their band as Calvin Pineda and The Antacids, and are one-half of the musical-essay-podcast duo Sage Country Fragments. They enjoy cats, roadside attractions and mint ice cream.

Since 2012, Daphne Elizabeth Stanford has hosted “The Poetry Show!” on KRBX/Radio Boise. She holds a BA in English from Reed College, an MAT in Secondary English Education from University of Iowa, and an MFA in Creative Writing from University of Oregon. Her work has been published by Caesura, Lingerpost Press, The Monarch Review, The Cabin: Writers in the Attic, Cliterature: All My Relations, Rabid Oak, Willawaw Journal, and Reservoir. Her chapbook, The Inevitable Surfacing of Bodies, was published in 2019 from Dancing Girl Press.

EPISODE 114 01/08/2024

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta is the author of thirteen books, including Edit Your Life and The Creative Year: 52 Workshops for Writers. She holds literature degrees from Harvard, Georgetown, and the University of Texas at Austin. She wrote her Ph.D. dissertation on the intersections between memoir and myth, a concept that informs her teaching and writing, and her entire way of looking at the world. She currently teaches writing for Harvard and Oxford and is the founder of The Book Year Writer’s Circle. elisabethsharpmcketta.com

EPISODE 113 01/01/2024

Ring Out, Wild Bells, from In Memoriam by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1850.

EPISODE 112 12/25/2023

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. rebeccaevanswriter.com

Cc 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.

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta is the author of thirteen books, including Edit Your Life and The Creative Year: 52 Workshops for Writers. She teaches writing for Harvard and Oxford and is the founder of The Book Year Writer’s Circle. elisabethsharpmcketta.com

EPISODE 111 12/18/2023

Yazmín Yadira Novelo Montejo received her Master in Sociolinguistics from Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia. She is a graduate in Social Communication from Autonomous University of Yucatán, Mérida, México and formed in Revitalization of Native Languages and Identities from the University of Mondragón in the Basque Country. Previously, she was associate professor at the Autonomous University of Yucatán and the Autonomous University of Mexico, ENES-Yucatán headquarters. She specializes in the revitalization of native languages and identities through cultural production and the media. She is a founding member of Yúuyum Radio and musical projects in the Mayan language. She is currently director of the U Péekbal Waye', a project which works for Mayan language revitalization. She collaborates as a mentor in linguistic revitalization with Endangered Languages Project and also co-directs the Nojolo'on Community Center for Peace in Peto, Yucatán, a space for citizen activation for Peace and NonViolence.

EPISODE 110 12/11/2023

Wormwood and Nightshade by Adam Lindsay Gordon 1833-1870.

EPISODE 109 12/04/2023

Tango recordings from the early 1920s by Alberto Arenas, Enrique Delfino and Armand Vecsey.

EPISODE 108 11/27/2023

Acapella songs from the early Twentieth Century.

EPISODE 107 11/20/2023

EPISODE 106 11/13/2023

Pius Akumbu is is a senior researcher at Langage, Langues et Cultures d’Afrique (LLACAN), a research unit of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and INaLCO University that specializes in the study of the languages and cultures of Africa. Before joining LLACAN, Pius was a Visiting Professor at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Previously, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Hamburg from 2019 to 2021. Before leaving Cameroon, Pius taught Linguistics courses at the universities of Buea and Bamenda. He received his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Yaoundé 1 in Cameroon. His research focuses on the documentation and description of Grassfields Bantu languages of Cameroon, including his mother tongue, Babanki. Additionally, Pius researches multilingualism in Cameroon as well as language planning and policy in Africa. He is an ELDP grant recipient, and a depositor at the Endangered Languages Archive. Since November 2022, Pius has been one of the Endangered Languages Project’s (ELP) language revitalization mentors.

EPISODE 105 11/06/2023

Eastern European Roma music recorded in 1917 by Columbia Records.

EPISODE 104 10/30/2023

Excerpt from Frankenstein, by Mary Shelly, published in 1818.

EPISODE 103 10/23/2023

Lasca, by Frank Desprez, read by Harry Humphreys and recorded in 1919 for Edison Records.

EPISODE 102 10/16/2023

Reading of Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling recorded in 1919 for Victor Records.

EPISODE 101 10/09/2023

Readings by poet Edgar A. Guest recorded for Victor Records in 1919.

EPISODE 100 10/02/2023

Heidi Kraay is a playwright and writer across disciplines. Her work examines the connection between brain and body, seeking empathy with fractured characters. She pulls myth, metaphor and monsters together to attempt connections across difference. Her plays, including Unwind: Hindsight is 2020, see in the dark, How to Hide Your Monster, New Eden, Me and My Shadow, Kilgore, as well as co-devised plays, plays for young audiences, one-acts and short plays, have been presented nationally and internationally. Learn more about Heidi and her work at www.heidikraay.com.

EPISODE 99 09/25/2023

The Owl And The Grasshopper, from The Aesop For Children, Illustrated by Milo Winter, 1919.

EPISODE 98 09/18/2023

The Wolf And The Kid, from The Aesop For Children, Illustrated by Milo Winter, 1919.

EPISODE 97 9/11/2023

The Peacock, from The Aesop For Children, 1919.

EPISODE 96 09/04/2023

Love songs recorded in 1917 by Victor Records.

EPISODE 95 8/28/2023

Matt Bunk is an Idaho artist blending folk Americana roots with kabbalistic mysticism. His work is structured around loops, both of language and ambient sound. As a poet, Matt's work roams from page to stage - where he often performs poetry alongside devised theater or music. His other projects include the band All Around Cowboy, the found-sound cassette collective The Living Room Orchestra, and the essay and poetry podcast Sage Country Fragments.

EPISODE 94 08/21/2023

Rebecca is a memoirist, poet and essayist. Her work reflects, among many things, fractured relationships. This fracturing influences every subsequent relationship––carrying scars and wounds throughout one's life. Evans weaves disability, domestic violence, and a fight for survival throughout her narratives, hoping to start conversations, create awareness, compassion and tolerance. To learn more about Rebecca and her work, visit: https://rebeccaevanswriter.com

EPISODE 93 08/14/2023

Tomás Baiza is the author of the novel, Delivery: A Pocho’s Accidental Guide to College, Love, and Pizza Delivery (Running Wild Press, 2023), and the collection A Purpose to Our Savagery (RIZE Press, 2023). Tomás’s work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Best of the Net, and Best American Short Stories anthologies and has appeared in various print and online anthologies and journals. 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 pizzas to a Klingon-themed orgy at a sci-fi convention. When he is not writing, Tomás is running trails, obsessing over bonsai trees, and playing guitar way too loud.

EPISODE 92 08/7/2023

Tomas Baiza is the author of the novel, Delivery: A Pocho’s Accidental Guide to College, Love, and Pizza Delivery (Running Wild Press, 2023), and the collection A Purpose to Our Savagery (RIZE Press, 2023). Tomás’s work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Best of the Net, and Best American Short Stories anthologies and has appeared in various print and online anthologies and journals. 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 pizzas to a Klingon-themed orgy at a sci-fi convention. When he is not writing, Tomás is running trails, obsessing over bonsai trees, and playing guitar way too loud.

EPISODE 91 07/31/2023

Ace Zappa is a multi-disciplinary artist inspired to explore interesting stories. Ace is based in Garden City Idaho, in the Live Work Create District, where she uses reclaimed and re-purposed materials to create original work. She was awarded a residency at Surel’s Place in 2022 and currently has an installation on display at the Green Box. To learn more about Ace and her work, visit: www.acezappa.com

EPISODE 90 07/24/2023

Rebecca Evans is a memoirist, poet and essayist. Her work reflects, among many things, fractured relationships. This fracturing influences every subsequent relationship––carrying scars and wounds throughout one's life. Evans weaves disability, domestic violence, and a fight for survival throughout her narratives, hoping to start conversations, create awareness, compassion and tolerance. To learn more about Rebecca and her work, visit: https://rebeccaevanswriter.com

EPISODE 89 06/26/2023

Poems by Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson, 1875-1935

EPISODE 88 06/19/2023

“Only A Dad”, published in “A Heap O’ Livin”, by Edgar Guest in 1916.

EPISODE 87 06/12/2023

An exploration of the ancient Greek mythological underworld, inspired by Book 10 of the Odyssey. palankeen.bandcamp.com/album/vogt

EPISODE 86 06/05/2023

Late 19th to early 20th century recordings by Sibyl Sanderson Fagan, 1895-1974.

EPISODE 85 05/29/2023

Early 1920s recordings by Mamie Smith and her Jazz Hounds for Okeh Records.

EPISODE 84 05/22/2023

Rafi Munz is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work deals with social, political and ecological themes. He holds a degree from The Bezalel School of art in Jerusalem and a Masters of Fine Art from the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. Born in Haifa, Israel, Rafi currently lives in Givat Ada, which has been his home for over 25 years. www.rafim.com

EPISODE 83 05/15/2023

A very happy Mother's Day week from MING with "The Line" by Palankeen. palankeen.bandcamp.com

EPISODE 82 05/08/2023

Jesse Blake Rundle is a folk musician based in Boise, Idaho. His newest album, Next Town's Trees, was released in March. jesseblakerundle.com

EPISODE 81 05/01/2023

Early 1920s recordings by jazz guitarist, Eddie Lang.

EPISODE 80 04/24/2023

Dr. Jake Saunders is a cellist, educator, and collaborative artist based in Boise, Idaho. He is active within the contemporary-classical, chamber, symphonic, and popular music realms. He is the founder and Artistic Director of 208 ensemble, the first professional contemporary music ensemble in Idaho as well as Boise Cello Collective, a collaborative project specializing in the performance of classical, contemporary, and popular music in nontraditional venues. Saunders currently serves as Associate Principal Cellist with the Boise Philharmonic, Section Cellist with the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra, and is a substitute cellist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He received the degree Doctor of Musical Arts from University of Colorado Boulder in 2021, where he served as teaching assistant for Prof. David Requiro. To learn more about Jake and his work, visit: jakesaunderscellist.com

EPISODE 79 04/17/2023

A selection from the newly released collaborative album, Drown To Resurface by Heidi Kraay and Thomas Paul. Download: https://www.heidikraay.com/notes/drown-to-resurface-a-collaborative-digital-album
Notes: https://heidikraay.bandcamp.com/album/drown-to-resurface

EPISODE 78 04/10/2023

Three recordings by German-American songwriter Gustav Luders, recorded between 1908-1912.

EPISODE 77 04/03/2023

Jason Morales is a Dutch Mexican American poet originally from Los Angeles, currently living and working in Boise, Idaho. You can learn more about Jason and his work at: jasonaeiou.com

EPISODE 76 03/27/2023

EPISODE 75 03/20/2023

EPISODE 74 03/13/2023

A brief account of the 1907-1909 British Anctarctic Expedition by Ernest Henry Shackleton, recorded in 1910.

EPISODE 73 03/06/2023

Traditional Slovak recordings from 1930 by Slovak American singer Adele Keshelak.

EPISODE 72 02/27/2023

Hannah Rodabaugh holds an MA from Miami University and an MFA from Naropa University. She is the author of three chapbooks, including We Don't Bury Our Dead When Our Dead Are Animals, a collection of ecological elegies. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Indianapolis Review, Camas Magazine, Glassworks Magazine, Blueline Magazine, Berkeley Poetry Review, Horse Less Review, and many others. She has received grants from the Idaho Commission on the Arts and the Alexa Rose Foundation and has been an Artist-in-Residence for the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, and Surel’s Place. She teaches English at Boise State University and creative writing at The Cabin. To learn more about Hannah and her work, visit: hannahrodabaugh.com.

EPISODE 71 02/20/2023

EPISODE 70 02/13/23

Written and musical works by Matthew Parrish, Rebecca Evans, Alice Nelson, Heidi Kraay, Margaret Koger and Jason Morales.

EPISODE 69 02/06/2023

The Stolen Child by William Butler Yeats

EPISODE 68 01/23/2023

“Band of Gideon” performed by the Fisk Jubilee Quartet, recorded in 1912.

EPISODE 67 01/16/2023

Alice Nelson is an Idaho based author who has written for online literary journals such as Short Fiction Break and Oroboro. She is also working on a semi-autobiographical novel dealing with her years being bussed into a predominantly white neighborhood to attend school in the 70s. She has hosted two podcasts, A Creative Mind Fiction and Small Town Stories, as well as a newly re-vamped podcast, Have I Got A Story To Tell You, which will be released in summer of this year. She is a 2023 recipient of a grant from Idaho Commission on the Arts and will be presenting her new podcast live at Treefort this March.

EPISODE 66 01/09/2023

A brief history of the popular song, Auld Lange Syne, with a 1910 recording by Frank C. Stanley.

EPISODE 65 01/02/2023

Early American songs about death by Leroy Carr, G.B. Grayson and Mississippi John Hurt.

EPISODE 64 12/19/2022

1920s recordings by Boogie-Woogie blues artist, Pine Top Smith.

EPISODE 63 12/12/2022

Andrew Nemr is an international artist, teacher and speaker. Mentored by Gregory Hines, Andrew is well known as a tap artist, but his work spans music, dance, theatre, and visual art worlds, all as a vehicle for storytelling and community building. Described as “A masterly tapper” by the New York Times, he has played with Grammy Award winning musicians across multiple genres, founded and directed the tap dance company Cats Paying Dues, and co-founded the Tap Legacy Foundation with Gregory Hines. His work has been recognized with such awards as a TED Fellowship, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, amongst others.

EPISODE 62 12/05/2022

The House Carpenter, sung by William Eden and recorded by folklorist, Mary Celestia Parler.

EPISODE 61 11/21/22

Five recordings from the early 1920s by classic jazz and blues singer, Virginia Liston.

EPISODE 60 11/14/22

Teal Gardner (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Boise, ID, where she has resided since 2016. Learn more at: eggobservatory.cargo.site.

EPISODE 59 11/07/2022

Heidi Kraay is a playwright and writer across disciplines. Her work examines the connection between brain and body, seeking empathy with fractured characters. She pulls myth, metaphor and monsters together to attempt connections across difference. Her plays, including Unwind: Hindsight is 2020, see in the dark, How to Hide Your Monster, New Eden, Me and My Shadow, Kilgore, as well as co-devised plays, plays for young audiences, one-acts and short plays, have been presented nationally and internationally. Learn more about Heidi and her work at: www.heidikraay.com.

EPISODE 58 10/31/2022

Terror Tales by the Old Sea Hag, performed by Martha Wentworth, 1959.

EPISODE 57 10/24/2022

Luana Graves is a writer and the founder of Lowcountry Gullah, a non-profit organization and podcast dedicated to the Gullah Geechie culture and raising awareness around the challenges faced by the community. Learn more at: lowcountrygullah.com.

EPISODE 56 10/17/2022

Woody Collins is the author of Where Have All the Shrimp Boats Gone?: A 100-Year History of the Shrimping Industry in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Learn more about Woody and his book here: www.shrimpboatsgone.com.

EPISODE 55 10/10/2022

Jodeen Revere is an Idaho actor and writer. In addition to her work on stage, in film and readings of her personal essays, she has been part of two Migration Theory site specific productions: S5 and Small Matters. Her one woman show, The Persistent Guest, opens this Saturday at Boise Contemporary Theatre.

EPISODE 54 10/03/2022

Heidi Kraay is a playwright and writer across disciplines. Her work examines the connection between brain and body, seeking empathy with fractured characters. She pulls myth, metaphor and monsters together to attempt connections across difference. Her plays, including Unwind: Hindsight is 2020, see in the dark, How to Hide Your Monster, New Eden, Me and My Shadow, Kilgore, as well as co-devised plays, plays for young audiences, one-acts and short plays, have been presented nationally and internationally.

EPISODE 53 09/26/2022

Artist Jose Reza, better known as Prime K2S, is credited with being a founder of Los Angeles stylized graffiti lettering. He gained international exposure when his work was featured in the book Spraycan Art, one of the earliest documentations of graffiti culture. He designed the cover for The Getty Research Institute's L.A. Liber Amicorum, otherwise known as The Getty Graffiti Black Book, which is housed in the Getty's rare manuscript collection. Today, he is also well known for both his public installations as well as his contemporary canvas work. To learn more about Prime and his work, you can follow him at: @primek2s

EPISODE 52 09/12/2022

J.R. Rivero Kinsey is a writer of music and prose. She is the creator of the musical project, Palankeen. For more information about J.R. and her work, visit: palankeen.bandcamp.com.

EPISODE 51 09/05/2022

Heidi Kraay is a playwright and writer across disciplines Her work examines the connection between brain and body, seeking empathy with fractured characters. She pulls myth, metaphor and monsters together to attempt connections across difference. Her plays, including Unwind: Hindsight is 2020, see in the dark, How to Hide Your Monster, New Eden, Me and My Shadow, Kilgore, as well as co-devised plays, plays for young audiences, one-acts and short plays, have been presented nationally and internationally. Learn more about Heidi and her work at: http://www.heidikraay.com/

EPISODE 50 08/29/2022

A reading of the intro to Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.

EPISODE 49 08/22/2022

Jacob Mitas is an artist, musician and luthier who specializes in bow-making in Portland, Oregon. Find out more about Jacob and his work at https://www.mitasbows.com/.

EPISODE 48 08/15/2022

Kevin Carroll is a musician and music educator based in Austin, Texas. After years performing with his own band, The Sleestacks, Kevin toured nationally and internationally as a guitarist with Jimmy LaFave and Charlie Robison, making two appearances on Austin City Limits. He now works as a composer, performer and teacher specializing in ukulele. You can find out more about Kevin and his work at https://www.kevincarroll.net and https://edukecation.com. *The song at the end of the podcast, arranged and played by Kevin, is the Ukranian national anthem.

EPISODE 47 08/08/2022

Àdhamh Ó Broin is a cultural revivalist, language activist and Scottish Gaelic Consultant, known best for his work in film and TV. He is also a storyteller, musical performer, and tradition bearer, fostering connections with indigenous people from all over the world who have come to visit his native Scotland. Find out more about Àdhamh and his work at www.scottishgaelic.scot/.

EPISODE 46 08/01/2022

Laurita Siles shows concern for the land, from environmental crisis to the nostalgia provoked by loss of heritage. She is co-founder of Mutur Beltz, an agro-ecological initiative located in Karrantza, Biscay that raises awareness for the endangered Basque black-nosed sheep and the diminishing shepherd trade. Over the course of her one-month residency at MING Studios, Siles explored Basque-American identity, the historical role of the Basque woman, and Basque agricultural history in Idaho with a concentration on shepherding and sheep lineages in the region. Her exhibition is Iruten Har Nuzu – I am making wool. For more information about Laurita and her work, visit: https://folklorenomada.com/home.html. Field recording of the traditional song, Iruten Har Nuzu, performed by Basque-Americans in 1940: https://www.loc.gov/item/2017701893/.

EPISODE 45 07/18/2022

Cuban recordings from 1924 by Trio Cubano, and the duo, Juan de la Cruz and Bienvenido Leon.

EPISODE 44 07/11/2022

Scott Schmaljohn is a brand designer, illustrator and musician from Boise, Idaho. In this episode, he talks about his involvement in the 1980s punk scene, what was important about that time, and differences he sees with the music scenes of today.

EPISODE 43 07/04/2022

John Francis McCormack was an Irish tenor who lived from 1884-1945, well known for his operatic performances as well as his renditions of popular song. He became acquainted with James Joyce in 1904, before either became famous, giving him voice lessons and helping him to earn 3rd place in Dublin's Feis Ceoil, which McCormack himself had won the previous year. He went on to study in Italy, receiving voice training from Vincenzo Sabatini and became Covent Garden's youngest principal tenor. Eventually, he became the most celebrated lyric tenor of his time.

EPISODE 42 06/20/2022

Three poems by Early 20th century poets, Leonora Speyer, Jessie Redmon Fauset and Dorothy Parker.

EPISODE 41 06/13/2022

Frederic Chopin, considered Poland's greatest composer, enthralled audiences with his technically complicated yet poetically beautiful performances. He was prolific, leaving the world with at least 230 composed works before his untimely death at age 39.

EPISODE 05/30/2022

1920s recordings from the Appalacian folk tradition by Bascom Lamar Lunsford, The North Carolina Ramblers and Dock Boggs.

EPISODE 39 05/23/2022

Elena Gallina grew up in the aftermath of the Kosovo war and has since lived and worked in many conflict settings. Her research has focused on combating gender-based violence in refugee camps and conflict zones. In her photography, she focuses on the complex quiet moments in these often misunderstood and sensationalized environments, specializing in co-creative portraiture. Based in Oxford, England on a Rhodes scholarship, her present work investigates how classism inhibits art access.

EPISODE 38 05/16/2022

Old Head rumbles from one machine into the next, tiptoeing the fringes of nature. Forcing through artificial light and black locust bramble, garnering slivers of wire and wood in the body. Nests of alchemical fluorescence, galvanic warrens where from cut-rate laughter and exorbitant wailing can be heard. Old Head is nothing more than Nathaniel Whipple and William Bendler unfurling ribbons of noise that quietly fall to the floor in a heap.

EPISODE 37 05/09/2022

EPISODE 36 05/02/2022

Mathematician, physicist and astronomer, Sir Isaac Newton, best known for formulating the theory of universal gravity, was one of the world's foremost thinkers, but he also showed signs of a deeply troubled mind. In a manuscript written in 1662 at age 19, he offered a peculiar insight into his psyche, within which, he listed the 48 sins he felt he had committed.

EPISODE 35 04/11/2022

Uli Westphal is a multi-disciplinary artist whose research-based works observe how humans perceive, depict and transform the natural world, and how misconceptions and ideologies shape our view of nature. He currently lives and works in Berlin. Learn more about Uli and his work at www.uliwestphal.de.

EPISODE 34 04/04/2022

Carmen Ballester is a native of Seville, Spain. In this episode, she tells us of the losses she laments in her city, and her hopes for the future.

EPISODE 33 03/28/2022

Soma Y'Luz is a photographer, installation artist and founder of the Art & Humanity Project. She lives and works in Seville, Spain and Varanasi, India. Visit her website.

EPISODE 32 03/21/2022

Alex Richter is a blacksmith, originally from Biberach an der Rich, Germany, whose work encompasses both functional and sculptural creations. He is based in Seville, Spain where he has lived and worked for over 30 years. His work appears throughout the city in stylistic architectural additions, decorative sign-work, as well as sculptures which can be found at various locations, including the Museo de Baile Flamenco.

EPISODE 31 03/14/2022

Neil Craig is a sound artist and lyre craftsman originally from Edinburgh, Scotland. Craig's fascination with sound began at a young age when he was given a cassette recording machine. His musical forays have ranged from electronic compositions under the moniker Muma Sounds, to classical guitar and a stint with the Scottish Indie band, The Holidaymakers. He currently lives in Moray, Scotland where he crafts handmade lyre harps and continues his exploration of electronic and recorded sound.

EPISODE 30 03/07/2022

Neil Craig is a sound artist and lyre craftsman from Edinburgh, Scotland. Craig's fascination with sound began at a young age when he was given a cassette recording machine. His musical forays have ranged from electronic compositions under the moniker Muma Sounds, to classical guitar and a stint with the Scottish Indie band, The Holidaymakers. He currently lives in Moray, Scotland where he crafts handmade lyre harps and continues his exploration of electronic and recorded sound.

EPISODE 29 02/28/2022

In 1946, ethnomusicologist Gilbert Rouget and audio engineer André Didier accompanied ethnologist Noël Ballif on an expedition through Middle-Congo and Gabon to study the traditional music and culture of the region. Episode 29 explores 6 of their recordings.

EPISODE 28 02/21/2022

In 1907, James Joyce published a collection of love poems titled, “Chamber Music”. Though he later claimed, in the cynical tone more commonly associated with the writer, that the title was a reference to the sound of urine hitting a chamber pot, the poems are a reflection of a younger, more earnest Joyce writing to an imagined love.

EPISODE 27 02/14/2022

Finnish opera singer Eino Rautavaara lived from 1879-1939. After studying in France, Germany and Italy, Rautavaara returned to Finland to serve as the Helsinki Kallio church cantor until 1922, then after, as a teacher at the Church Music Institute. His son, Einojuhani Rautavaara, was born in 1928 and went on to become one of Finland's most notable composers. The songs featured in this episode were recorded between 1905 and 1909.

EPISODE 26 02/07/2022

Jens Kuross has been a professional musician since the age of 15 when he landed his first jazz gig playing drums for a piano trio alongside former Buddy Rich side man Jeff Rew. After studying with jazz greats Billy Higgins and Ralph Peterson, he earned his bachelors degree in jazz performance from the Berklee College of Music in 2005. Relocating to Los Angeles, Jens played with jazz greats such as Larry Koonse, and Bob Mintzer, as well as members of pop rock groups Weezer and Maroon 5. He graduated from Azusa Pacific University with his Masters in Jazz Performance in 2013. Jens has subsequently toured the world, playing storied festivals such as Glastonbury and the Montreux Jazz Festival, as well as venues like Walt Disney Concert hall and the Konzerthaus Berlin. As a composer Jens’s music has been featured in several TV shows and films, such as “13 Reasons Why” and “Lucifer” as well as the 2016 documentary “The Bomb”, an immersive audio visual experience about the history and threat of nuclear weapons which Jens has performed live with the band The Acid at several film festivals including the Tribeca, the Berlin Film Festival, and at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies in Oslo, Norway. jenskuross.com

EPISODE 25 01/31/2022

This episode features six traditional Syrian songs performed by Youssef Tage, most likely recorded in the 1930s and early 40s. Though nothing is known about the artist, the songs he sings are an incredible example of the complex musical development in Syria, cradle of one of the oldest known civilizations on earth.

EPISODE 24 01/24/2022

In 1824, Thomas Medwin published his book, “Journal of the conversations of Lord Byron noted during a residence with his lordship at Pisa, in the years 1821 and 1822". It was a response to the burning of Byron's memoirs by his publisher, which Medwin considered a betrayal of both Byron and the public. Today's episode is an excerpt from the beginning of this book, describing Medwin's first introduction to Byron ––– a vivid and delightful window into his personality, a moment of his life and the era.

EPISODE 23 01/17/2022

This episode features three recordings made in 1917 by Irish-American piper, Tom Ennis. Ennis was born in 1888 in the US and was taught to play the Uilleann pipes by his father, John Ennis, who emigrated from Kildare, Ireland. Young Ennis grew up steeped in the Irish-American Gaelic community and became a well-known piper. In early adolescence he became the youngest member ever admitted into the Irish Music Club of Chicago, playing amongst the most elite musicians of the day. He went on to perform in Vaudeville and was very active in the New York and Chicago music scenes.

EPISODE 22 01/10/2022

My___on Mondays Episode 22 is by Barnett Cohen. Cohen (b. Cape Town, South Africa) is a queer poet, painter, performance maker, and political activist who lives and works in Los Angeles and New York City. He has exhibited, staged performances, and held readings at REDCAT, JOAN, LAXART, Pieter Space, 356 Mission, Human Resources, The Box (Los Angeles), The International Center For Photography, Beverly's, JDJ (New York), Vox Populi (Philadelphia), Open Space/SFMOMA City Limits (San Francisco & Oakland), and The Onassis Foundation (Athens, Greece). He has been in-residence at SVA, Skowhegan, MacDowell, and is currently an artist-in-residence at the NARS Foundation, New York. In 2020, he was nominated for the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. Cohen is also the founder of the Mutual Aid Immigration Network (MAIN). Established in 2017, MAIN is a trilingual free assistance hotline for people detained in immigration detention centers across the US. MAIN connects people in detention with bond funds and legal services that can accelerate their freedom from incarceration. Learn more about Cohen at www.barnettcohen.com

EPISODE 21 01/03/2022

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. She lives in Boise, Idaho where she loves supporting the arts, running in the foothills and raising her two wild boys.

EPISODE 20 12/06/2021

Jodeen Revere is an Idaho actor and writer, and a regular contributor to MING Studios programming. Her first reading at MING in 2019 became the springboard for her one woman show, The Persistent Guest. This darkly humorous story of her trifecta of cancer experiences, less than desirable relationships and life philosophy, premieres at Boise Contemporary Theater in January of 2022. In addition to her work on stage, in film and readings of her personal essays, she has been part of two Migration Theory site specific productions: S5 and Small Matters. You can listen to her earlier contribution to My On Mondays in Episode 8: My Getaway.

EPISODE 19 11/29/2021

Idaho author and screenwriter, Samantha Silva's debut novel, Mr. Dickens and His Carol, was published by Flatiron Books in 2017, followed by Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft in May of 2021. Her essays appear on LitHub, and her short story, “Leo in Venice,” was the September 2019 issue of One Story. She is currently working with Seattle Repertory Theater to adapt Mr. Dickens and His Carol for the stage, and was a 2020 Idaho Commission on the Arts Literary Fellow. Learn more about Samantha and her work here.

EPISODE 18 11/22/2021

EPISODE 17 11/08/2021

Zach Herbert is a Boise based musician and performance artist who has been creating under the moniker of "St. Terrible" for the past 10 years. With work that tends to be existentially charged and skewing towards the rougher edges of the human experience, Herbert has created a wide array of works ranging from immersive dance pieces to short music films. For this piece, the aim was to create something small and soft, a brief meditative moment of relief from the intense anxiety and feelings of detachment Herbert had been experiencing around the time of its creation. View his most recent project here.

EPISODE 16 10/25/2021

Huma Aatifi was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and came to the US in 2002. She is a painter and heads the musical project, Unda Fluxit. Her piece is titled “My Salamuna”, which comes from “Salam”, a Muslim greeting. In it, Aatifi takes the listener on a meandering tour through various aspects of her life, welcoming us to her inner world. Read an interview with Huma here. Her album is available here.

EPISODE 15 10/04/2021

J.R. Rivero Kinsey is a writer of both music and prose, based in the mountains of Idaho. Today's selection, titled, “My Book Songs” comes from the second album of her solo music project called Palankeen. It features three songs. The first, titled “Slender” is a re-telling of Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure in seven verses. The second, “Baruch in the Northern Lights”, is based on two characters from the series, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. She ends with a song called “The Good Counselor”, which focuses on the story of Persephone in the Underworld and features an excerpt from The Odyssey. For more information about J.R. and her work, visit jrrkinsey.com.

EPISODE 14 9/20/2021

Jesse Blake Rundle is a songwriter and poet, originally from Kansas and currently living in Boise, Idaho. He released his debut, Radishes and Flowers in April 2020. To learn more about Jesse and his work, visit jesseblakerundle.com.

EPISODE 13 9/13/2021

Teal Gardner (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Boise, ID, where she has resided since 2016. Read more about her work at: bodiesofthemesh.cargo.site. This recording explores the slippages among ecosystems, the human self, and the ruins produced by extraction. It features a sound experiment that replicates Alivn Lucier's 1969 "I Am Sitting in a Room." Special thanks goes to Hartford University's Nomad MFA Cohort C6 (Seasick) for the company and collaboration in the artist's exploration of Crystal Peat. And a thank you to the professors Christy Gast and Camila Marambio and their project Ensayos, where you can learn so much more about Peatlands: ensayostierradelfuego.net. For more information on Peatland conservation, see www.globalpeatlands.org.

EPISODE 12 9/6/2021

CL Young is the author of a chapbook called What Is Revealed When I Reveal It to You (dancing girl press, 2018), and co-author with Emily Skillings of Rose of No Man's Land, a chaplet from Belladonna* Collaborative. Her poems have appeared in Lana Turner, Poetry Northwest, The Volta, and elsewhere, and essays can be found at Entropy and The Scofield. She holds an MFA from Colorado State University and currently lives in Boise, Idaho, where she facilitates an ongoing project called Sema, a podcast on loss, grief, healing, and death. Learn more about her work at clyoung.info.

EPISODE 11 8/30/2021

Boise playwright, writer and theatre maker, Heidi Kraay, examines the connection between brain and body, seeking empathy with fractured characters. Her work, which has been published and performed both locally and internationally, pulls myth, metaphor and monsters together to attempt connections across difference. Learn more about her work at heidikraay.com

EPISODE 10 8/23/2021

Daniel Drennan ElAwar is an artist, writer and activist. Born in Lebanon and adopted at two months, he grew up in Iran, Australia, and finally the United States, with four years lived in France. In 2004 he returned to Lebanon, where he lived and worked for 12 years. In 2016 he returned to the United States, and currently works as a professor of illustration in Canada. Learn more about his work at danielibnzayd.wordpress.com (*Correction: MEMRI TV was mentioned in error. The correct organization is Future TV.)

EPISODE 9 8/16/2021

Dzevad Vrabac is a poet, born and raised in Bosnia and Herzegovina, former Yugoslavia. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Boise State University and an MFA from Saint Mary's College of California. Dzevad has lived and worked in Boise, Idaho since 1998. *Poetry, music and sounds by Dzevad Vrabac,
sound editing by Goran Fazil.

EPISODE 8 8/9/2021

Jodeen Revere is an actor, writer and Thai massage therapist from Boise, Idaho. She has worked with Boise Contemporary Theater, Migration Theory, Alley Rep, Homegrown and Opal theaters. Follow Jodeen on Instagram: @jodeenrevere

EPISODE 7 8/2/2021

(Please Note: This episode contains strong language and disturbing content.)

My on Mondays' seventh episode is by Erik Wesselo, an artist and filmmaker from Amsterdam. My Conversation with Clarence, features a conversation with a homeless man who lived on Wesselo's front porch in New York City. This man was, for a brief period, the only constant factor in his life. Learn more about Wesselo's work at www.erikwesselo.com.

EPISODE 6 7/26/21

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta is a writer and poet originally from Austin, Texas, now living in Boise, Idaho. She received her BA from Harvard, MA from Georgetown and PhD from University of Texas at Austin. McKetta wrote her dissertation on the intersections between memoir, and myth, a concept that informs her teaching, writing and way of looking at the world. Learn more about her work at elisbathsharpmcketta.com.

EPISODE 5 7/19/21

Carolyn Bevington published her first book of graphic poetry titled, The Wide Eyed Wonders Graphic Poetry Project, with ten contributing artists.
To learn more about Carolyn and her work, visit wideeyedwonders.com.

EPISODE 4 7/12/21

''My Hikes'' collages Daniel Bagley's Monday excursions with improvised guitar sessions, placing improvisation on the same plain as hiking to wherever a trail takes you. Learn more about his work at distantfamily.bandcamp.com.

EPISODE 3 7/5/21

Daniel Stewart's piece 'My 54 Word Poems' is based on his latest manuscript Hotel 54: 54-word Poems.

EPISODE 2 6/28/21

Shawn Solus' current work explores issues related to infrastructure and ecology, envisioning a future coexistence with non humans.
Learn more about his work at ssolusstudio.com.

EPISODE 1 6/21/21

My on Mondays' debut episode is by Irina Novarese, a research-based artist living in Berlin. Learn more about her work at irinanovarese.de.

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