My___on Mondays

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/.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sara Teasdale, 1884 – 1933. 

Marianne Moore, 1887 - 1972.  

E. Pauline Johnson, 1861 – 1913. 

George Eliot, 1819 – 1880. 

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, 1825-1911.

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.  

Jane Austen, 1775-1817

10th century poem attributed to Brigid of Kildare.   

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."

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.

Zora Neale Hurston, 1891 - 1960.

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.    

William Cullen Bryant, 1794-1878.  

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

Emily Bronte, 1818-1848.  

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

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.

Jonathan Swift, 1667 -1745.  

Charlotte Mary Mew, 1869-1928.  

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.  

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1900 - 1944.

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?  

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?  

Joseph Thomas Sheridan LeFanu,1814 - 1873.  

Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman,1860 - 1935.  

Carl Sandburg 1878-1967.  

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.

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

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?

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. 

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

Sappho, c.620 - c.550 BCE. 

Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862.

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.   

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.

Robert Frost, 1874-1963.

Isabella “Isa” Blagden, 1816/17-1873. 

Christopher Marlowe, 1564-1593.

Djuna Barnes, 1892-1982 

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, 1475-1564. 

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

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?” 

Mercedes de Acosta, 1892-1968.