EPISODE 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.
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. |
UPCOMING EPISODES
01/03/22 My Grandmother: Christy Claymore 01/10/22 My All Grammars Leak: Barnett Cohen 01/17/22 My Early Irish American Finds: MING Studios, Public Archives PREVIOUS EPISODES 06/21/21 My Concrete Mondays: Irina Novarese 06/28/21 My Soundscape Ecology: Shawn Solus 07/05/21 My 54 Word Poems: Daniel Stewart 07/12/21 My Hikes: Daniel Bagley 07/19/21 My Vending Machine Poetry Dream: Carolyn Bevington 07/26/21 My Leap: Elisabeth Sharp McKetta 08/02/21 My Conversation with Clarence: Erik Wesselo 08/09/21 My Getaways: Jodeen Revere 08/16/21 My Mondays in Sarajevo: Dzevad Vrabac 08/23/21 My Vigil: Daniel Drennan ElAwar 08/30/21 My Dirty Fingernails: Heidi Kraay 09/06/21 My 2011: CL Young 09/13/21 My Not Bog: Teal Gardner 09/20/21 My Harmonium: Jesse Blake Rundle 10/25/21 My Salamuna: Huma Aatifi 11/08/21 My Small Moment of Clarity and Release: Zachary Herbert (St. Terrible) 11/22/21 My Frankenstein Monster Part 1: Samantha Silva 11/29/21 My Frankenstein Monster Part 2: Samantha Silva 12/06/21 My First Glimpse Through a Pervy Lense: Jodeen Revere |
MoM ARCHIVE
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EPISODE 23 01/17/2022
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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.
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EPISODE 22 01/10/2022
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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
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EPISODE 21 01/03/2022
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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.
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EPISODE 20 12/06/2021
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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.
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EPISODE 19 11/29/2021
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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.
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EPISODE 18 11/22/2021
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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.
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EPISODE 17 11/08/2021
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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.
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EPISODE 16 10/25/2021
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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.
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EPISODE 15 10/04/2021
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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.
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EPISODE 14 9/20/2021
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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.
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EPISODE 13 9/13/2021
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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.
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EPISODE 12 9/6/2021
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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.
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EPISODE 11 8/30/2021
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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
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EPISODE 10 8/23/2021
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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.)
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EPISODE 9 8/16/2021
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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. |
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EPISODE 8 8/9/2021
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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
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EPISODE 7 8/2/2021
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(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.
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EPISODE 6 7/26/21
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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.
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EPISODE 5 7/19/21
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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. |
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EPISODE 4 7/12/21
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''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.
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EPISODE 3 7/5/21
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Daniel Stewart's piece 'My 54 Word Poems' is based on his latest manuscript Hotel 54: 54-word Poems.
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EPISODE 2 6/28/21
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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. |
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EPISODE 1 6/21/21
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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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My___on Mondays is supported by Boise City Department of Arts & History
