My___on Mondays

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.

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

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 

Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1892-1950.  

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.

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

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

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