Podcast appearances and mentions of luna luna magazine

Jane gets emotional about Kirsten Dunst's long overdue recognition. Lauren Spinabelli is a writer / teacher/ tweeter living in Brooklyn. She's been published in The New Yorker, McSweeney's, Luna Luna Magazine, and elsewhere. She runs the twitter account @tinyfairytales which you should follow.  Subscribe to our Patreon and get access to patrons-only perks at  patreon.com/underthebleacherspod!

This episode stars Joanna C. Valente (A Love Story, Yes, Poetry, Luna Luna Magazine). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Valente's home in New York (not Yonkers sadly) in September 2021. 

Host Daniel Chacon welcomes Monique Quintana back to the studio for an in depth interview to discuss her new noel, Cenote City. Her book reviews, interviews, and personal essays appear at Luna Luna Magazine,  where she is a contributing editor. Her short works have been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, and the Pushcart Prize.

POEMS BY KAILEY TEDESCO THREE POEMS ACCEPTED April 28, 2020 Bloomwards & Eggsome   What’s your background, Slushies? Sounds like a loaded question, right? But it’s really a reference to your choice of green-screen background Zoomery. This episode opens with a larking conversation about our current delight in Zoom’s capacity to allow us to upload virtual backgrounds for our physical spaces. (The discussion of poems starts at 8:01 if you want to skip the banter). Kathleen’s surrounded by tulips (while she’s actually holed up in her 3rd floor garret, with a dormer ceiling making her look like Alice in Wonderland). Jason is perched in front of IRL bookcases. Samantha is podcasting with her kitchen over her shoulder. Opting for a plain white wall, Marion nonetheless dons a seriously fringed top in honor of Jason’s signature leather jacket. And Alex Tunney, long-time PBQ editor inducted by our dear pal Daniel Nester a million years ago, joins the podcast for the first time and rocks a Piet Mondrian background. (Nicely done!). All of which serves as a perfect set up for an episode dedicated to poems submitted by Kailey Tedesco. Tedesco’s poems are full of magic and mysticism, shadows and spells. Her work moves across a range of styles—from an ekphrastic poem inspired by Hilma af Klint’s magnificent paintings to a reconfiguration of creepy childhood legends (like Bloody Mary) while playing with forms. We were drawn to the process-based mysticism, speculative feminism, and feminist horror coming through these poems. And Kathleen jumped in and read #7, because…#7.   THE DISCUSSION BEGINS AT 8:49   Recommended Reading: Marion’s raving about Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other https://groveatlantic.com/book/girl-woman-other/   Samantha’s loving Carmen Maria Machado’s memoir, In the Dream House   Jason’s devouring Brenda Shaughnessy’s So Much Synth https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/so-much-synth-by-brenda-shaughnessy/   And we are supremely grateful for the poetry of Eavan Boland, who passed the day before we recorded this episode. Here is her masterful poem, “Quarantine.”    This episode is brought to you by one of our sponsors, Wilbur Records, who kindly introduced us to the artist is A.M.Mills whose song “Spaghetti with Lorraine” now opens our show.  At the table: Kathleen Volk Miller, Jason Schneiderman, Marion Wrenn, Samantha Neugebauer,  and Alex Tunney Kailey Tedesco is the author of She Used to be on a Milk Carton (April Gloaming Publishing), Lizzie, Speak, and the forthcoming collection, FOREVERHAUS (White Stag Publishing). She is a senior editor for Luna Luna Magazine. You can find her work in Electric Literature, Fairy Tale Review, Gigantic Sequins, and more.    Her Instagram & Twitter is @kaileytedesco   7 adulthood after Hilma af Klint   you’ll remember me  as a zygote scrambling towards cronehood  on its haunches; i grow bloomwards. my teeth outstretched  on the front lawn  during the violet hour, spelling spells disguised  as poems. hermit to hermit; we kiss  to form  a single nautilus, sistering divinity. tell me when was it  you last  heard from your spirit?  my guides  have abducted  me quite  violently  from the tulips i’ve found myself asleep in.  it is all but true; my eggs  have clasped in my womb  like pearls.  my intention  is not to create life, but death. though, i misspoke — my true intention is  to create life out of death.  find me in the portal  on the left, right next to the electric  fences of my  darknesses, all  clumped.  inside the beheaded apartment   the sky whispers something eggsome then breaks its rain, thick & frozen. i crave the cigarettes  i’ve never smoked; not marlboro. i picture you before the time everything could kill you, glamour   in your beehive & twiggy dress, smoke haloing the mini-chandeliers. i beckon for you  to gemstone through me, egyptology — my lipstick glyphs on the edges of your sink. there are    teeth in the walls, did you know that? whole fangs, pulled clean at the root, & toenails, too,  flaking from the ceiling. i lived with estate sale busts of nefertiti, estate sale victorian lace,    bagged & labeled with the year, estate sale chaises of green velvet. green because it reminds  me of france, where i have never been, but where the sun is a vintage wallpaper. in the window    across the way, women in mourning bonnets have st. columba hands holding tight  to the dogs in their rosary chains. the plexi glass cracks in the shape of a crown or witch hat. there    is no bathroom but the one with the freckled clawfoot. the cats have become anxious with the  roach-scroll of the floorboards. we say they perform theatrical productions  — one ophelia,    lounging in wet lavender sogging the carpet-shag, one desdemona, clawing at tissue for  handkerchiefs. something is crawling in me, teeth in the walls of boning. i wear the whole house   that used to be yours like a corset. this place is no good for us, i tell your lack of existence. all  the bodily fluids of every other tenant filth me — all the living hosts whispering in tune with the    mold water-logging my pillows. bring me my peacock & she-bear, my estate sale saints. it is time i sic them on my landlords, bring back your sight & my seeing. i shall go ahead    and make my own kingdom out of deadbolts. bloody mary x 3    there goes my top skull jack-in-the-boxing from your suzy-talks-a-lot eyelids. maybe i’ve been dead a long time. maybe i’ve been dead never ever. live with me forever in the medicine cabinet   where my limbs smoke ring doll-wards through your own reflection. spinning my head  all the way around is what i do for a pageant talent. every time you call my name,    you put a knife in it—my face wounds towards yours. i become nothing but a blood-aura  on your tooth fairy bedding. unlike yours, my wedding gown will lack knuckle-buttons & i envy.    you should have made me more opulent in the story where i’m saint-corpsed with gumball rings on every finger. let me live display-cased at the dead mall, cradling the body you’ve made us.     i’ll hold you too, if you’d like. we can lace together, spine glued to spine, a jar of our parts  now puzzled. then my head, free by comparison, can decapitate & become a locket    facing the wrong way. the backstage of night is what i’d like to see most—everything zombifying from the dirt of sky.  i see the same stars as you.   there goes my head. i’m coming back to life.     An array of relevant links:    Hilma af Klint at the Guggenheim https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/hilma-af-klint And here is the Guggenheim on No. 7 Adulthood:  https://www.guggenheim.org/audio/track/group-iv-the-ten-largest-no-7-adulthood-1907-by-hilma-af-klint   (Or this link, too, for more images)  https://arthistoryproject.com/artists/hilma-af-klint/group-iv-no-7-the-ten-largest-adulthood/ The legend of Bloody Mary Debunked:  https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bloody-mary-story/ And scienced up: https://u.osu.edu/vanzandt/2019/04/17/bloody-mary-from-the-bathroom-to-the-laboratory/

Lisa Marie Basile is a poet, essayist and editor who focuses on witchcraft, shadow work, and using the power of language to heal from trauma. She's author of the non-fiction book Light Magic for Dark Times: More Than 100 Spells, Rituals, and Practices for Coping in a Crisis and The Magical Writing Grimoire: Use the Word as Your Wand, for Magic, Manifestation, and Ritual which is out this month. She is also the founder and creative director of Luna Luna Magazine, an editor at Ingram’s poetry site Little Infinite, and co-host of the podcast, AstroLushes, which intersects astrology, literature, wellness, and culture. She’s written several books of a poetry, and the collection, NYMPHOLEPSY, which she co-authored was a finalist in the 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards. She’s also been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes, and her essays and other work can be found in such places as The New York Times, Bust, Self, Refinery 29 and many more.On this episode, Lisa discusses how to work with the shadow, rituals for crisis, and why poetry is in fact magic.Pam also discusses the power of poetry in dark times, and answers a listener question about how to boost communication confidence.Our sponsors for this episode are Tarot For the Wild Soul, Foxglove Pharm, and Mithras Candle

Joanna C. Valente is a ghost who lives in Brooklyn, New York. Joanna is the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015)  Marys of the Sea (The Operating System, 2017), Xenos (Agape Editions, 2016), Sexting Ghosts (Unknown Press, 2018), and No(body) (Madhouse Press, 2019). They are the editor of A Shadow Map: Writing By Survivors of Sexual Assault (CCM, 2017), and received a MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College. Joanna is also the founder of Yes, Poetry, as well as the senior managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine and an editor for Civil Coping Mechanisms.Joanna has been featured in Brooklyn Magazine, Them, Prelude, BUST, Columbia Journal, Electric Literature, Joyland, Tarpaulin Sky, The Feminist Wire, Spork Press, Ravishly, The Rumpus, VICE, The Brooklyn Rail, VIDA, The Huffington Post, among others. Joanna also currently teaches courses at Brooklyn Poets. In addition, Joanna has also spoken or given lectures for/at SUNY Purchase College, Sarah Lawrence College, the National Eating Disorder Association, AWP, Brooklyn Book Festival, Shout Your Abortion, Ravishly, Luna Luna Magazine, Monstering Magazine, Winter Tangerine, and more.

This week we welcomed a special guest: “busy writing lady,” poet and food journalist for the Midatlantic region, Tammy Paolino. Headlining the discussion on poems by Kyle Watson Brown, were standing desks. Yes, the giraffe of desks! We talked about it all: Drexel’s lottery system for standing desks, Jason’s makeshift standing desk, and DYI portable desks being an indication for becoming the President of the United States and leader of the free world. After desk-related helpful tips, we moved on to discuss the first poem, “Too Many Funerals.” This one had us floored by its “weird” (Jason’s word), syntax and word choices. This piece prompted a diverse conversation on the term “junkie” and its evolution from a label to a condition. Then, to give you whiplash, the discussion switched to sunscreen. Usually, the only new member of our podcast meetings are the poets being discussed, however, this week we welcomed a special guest: “busy writing lady,” poet and food journalist for the Midatlantic Region, Tammy Polino. Headlining the discussion on poems by Kyle Watson Brown, were standing desks. Yes, the giraffe of desks! We talked about it all: Drexel’s lottery system for standing desks, Jason’s makeshift standing desk, and portable desks being a qualification for becoming the President of the United States and leader of the free world. After enough talk on these wooden objects, we moved on to discuss the first poem, “Too Many Funerals.” This one had us floored by its peculiar syntax and word choices. Moreover. our editors felt as if they were in a maze. Listen in to hear if we found our way out! This piece prompted a diverse conversation on the term “junkie” and its evolution from a label to a condition. Then, just to give you audio and intellectual whiplash, the discussion switched to sunscreen. Thank you, Marion, for taking the reins and attempting to steer us back in the direction of the actual poem. Unsurprisingly, we ended up in Ocean City, Maryland, despite her best efforts. (Look, we told you Tammy Paolino lives in NJ—of course the shore—any shore--makes sense.) Joe Zang, our outstanding sound engineer, helped us out in regards to nails and teeth, as well. Listen in and it will all make sense. The second poem, “Cornerwork” also provoked conversation on drug addiction. Then, Jason tried his best to culture some of us “lazy Americans” on how the word “love,” used in tennis, ionderived from the French. The more you know... The final poem discussed was, “Cagelight.” After reading the first two poems on drug-addiction, this one will surely have you a bit bumfuzzled on how to interpret it. (And you’re right, bumfuzzled is not a word---yet---but we’re trying.) The editors of PBQ are curious: Why do some submitters remove their poems within days of submission? Should we point the finger at workshops? Or too many drinks at 3 AM? Speaking of too many drinks, have you ever ordered something off Amazon at midnight and forgotten all about it the next day? And still failed to recognize the purchase once it arrived at your front door? If not, Kathleen will have to explain that one for you. Slushies, please consider writing more poems with “conspire” in them, as per Tammy’s request. Also-if you missed the “Whitman at 200” events, make sure to mark your calendar for 2119!  Until next time, read-on!     Kyle Brown-Watson one of the grumpier baristas in Philadelphia. He has read poetry and fiction on stage for Empty Set Press and the Breweytown Social. He's contributed poetry to Yes Poetry and Luna Luna Magazine. Before that, he worked in advertising, software development, and heaven forgive him, television. He infrequently updates his newsletter Terminal Chill and is working on a graphic novel.     Too Many Funerals   My undertows are not the ones I show you   Sheets of ice stained with salt and  SPF 78 gunmetal grease runoffs sucking back the xenon haze    No shells No towels No balls of greasy dough Not even the quiet closure of junkie needles in you heel to Mark the hours passing   that vanishing point Where fingernails and necks and teeth  Conspire to meet, Blind on February shores.       Cornerwork   I’d start with the fat veins Work South The empty weeping chirps of  valves closing    All the gaps and discs and tremors  that make me From tooth to toenail    Black on carbon black suspended in silence   The stupid red haze of your eyelids and nothing else.       Cagelight   Sugarblasted doorframes so light you can press and   Drop   To fly in the space where the boredom of transit makes even a wander into a magswipe   clogged-artery anonymity of Mifflin streetlamps to rest your face  in bars and shadow they make for you chilled and cold rolled and waiting for you.        

Dr. Jeanette welcomes Lisa Marie Basile, author of Light Magic for Dark Times and Luna Luna Magazine, shares how to transform energy around us. There is a lot of magic in the world and energy flowing each day; how can we tap into that and feel lighter in life? Are you doing a lot of spiritual things and feeling drained as the dickens? Who or what are you giving your power up to? The energies these days, if you can't notice them, you might be missing something; they are knocking you on the head, they are knocking on your door and trying to wake you up, wake up, wake up they are calling! Learning the power of intention, gems and crystals, smoke and herbs, and the earth and sky. Transformation is the magic of energy; swirl and create a moment in time. For more about Lisa Marie visit: www.LisaMarieBasile.com For guided support with Dr. Jeanette visit: www.DrJeanetteGallagher.com

In which we discuss what astrology means in the contexts of our REAL lives, reductive astrology memes, pop culture, folk magic and trauma. We also do a Rapid Fire Round of Guess That Sign & discuss future episodes. Background noises includes a warm roaring fire & distressed cat whining (he’s okay, he just wants attention). We also mention the podcast That’s So Retrograde, which has a great episode of Drunk Astrology, as well as a new podcast called Drunk Astrology + we send lots of love to Apothic Wine, and the new books HausWitch: Transform Your Home With Witchcraft. We also mention Luna Luna Magazine (lunalunamagazine.com) and the book Light Magic for Dark Times. You can follow us at @lisamariebasile @anditalarico @astrolushes!

Kailey Tedesco is the author of She Used to be on a Milk Carton (April Gloaming Publishing) and These Ghosts of Mine, Siamese (Dancing Girl Press). Her newest collection, Lizzie, Speak, will be available in early 2019 from White Stag Publishing. She is the co-founder of Rag Queen Periodical and an associate editor for Luna Luna Magazine. You can find her work featured or forthcoming in Fairy Tale Review, Prelude, Witch Craft Mag, fields, glitterMOB, and more. Follow @kaileytedesco. We talked travel, weddings, & witchy things.

In this first episode of season three, we ride around with poet, essayist, and founding creative director of Luna Luna Magazine, Lisa Marie Basile. While bumping over the streets of Long Island City, we talk about work and play, dark magic and light, and social media in all its confining glory. We talk about how to care for our bodies in these times where even waking up feels like a challenge. You’ll also find a link below to her NEW book, Light Magic for Dark Times, a link to Luna Luna, and her author page where you can read more of her work. So check it all out, listeners—and let us know what you think! Original score by Arlen Ginsburg. https://www.lisambasile.com/ http://www.lunalunamagazine.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Light-Magic-Dark-Times-Practices/dp/1592338534 https://www.handfulofwheel.com/ https://www.arlenginsburg.com/

In this episode, poet, founder of Luna Luna Magazine, and author of the new book Light Magic for Dark Times Lisa Marie Basile joins Living Open for a conversation about darkness as a way to explore what it means to be alive. We talk about telling stories as a homecoming, vulnerability, making magick your own & integrating magick into your life, honoring light and dark and everything in between, exploring darkness, Scorpio energy and what it means to her as a Scorpio sun, self-care and magick with a chronic illness, and a self-love spell from her book for those with chronic illness (amazing for any kind of trauma and body love). Find the blog for this episode at www.living-open.com/blog/lisamariebasile Find Lisa on Instagram here. Check your local indie bookstore for her book, Light Magic for Dark Times, or order on Amazon here and scroll through the amazing archives of Luna Luna Magazine here.  Support on Patreon for as little as $2 a month to access the Queen of Pentacles breathwork meditation, monthly embodied tarot yoga classes (September's class is the Queen of Swords), monthly virtual new moon circles, & the Lilith: Healing the Wild book club: www.patreon.com/erynjohnson. Purchase the Queens of the Tarot Breathwork meditation album for $11.11!  Explore tarot readings, breathwork sessions, and reiki sessions at www.living-open.com 

Things get fun & dirty with Kim Vodicka as we talk Elvis, poetry, love & of course, sex. Kim Vodicka is the spokesbitch of a degeneration and heart-reactionary at the rearguard of the rose arts. Her poems, art, and essays have been featured in Spork, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, Makeout Creek, Luna Luna Magazine, Paper Darts, Tarpaulin Sky, Best American Experimental Writing, Nasty! and many others. Her poetry collection, Psychic Privates, from White Stag Press is out now! Cruise her at kimvodicka.com.

THANK YOU for joining me for episode 326 of HiPPiE WiTCH : Magick For A New Age. - Be sure to pick up a FREE copy of my eBook HiPPiE WiTCH : Peace, Love & All That Good Sh!t. - If you'd like to sign up for extra episodes of HiPPiE WiTCH each month via Patreon, you can do that here. - GET THE BOOK : Light Magic For Dark Times. - CHECK iT OUT : Luna Luna Magazine. - ViSiT Lisa Marie Basile online & tell her how fabulous she is! MUCH LOVE -xo peace... Joanna DeVoe

What does it mean to be the one crawling through the doggy door? Amanda Malone gives the low-down on her flash story, "Someday Baby, You Ain't Gonna Worry About Me Anymore," originally published in Wyvern Lit. Other topics include: southern grit-lit, accents, and brevity in fiction. Read the story: http://www.wyvernlit.com/four/amanda-malone/ A born and raised New Yorker, Amanda Malone learned to love the South after living in Georgia for nine years and is slowly coming around on the Midwest. She is currently a third year candidate at the MFA program at Minnesota State University, Mankato and a graduate instructor of composition. Her work has appeared in Wyvern Lit, CHEAP POP and Luna Luna Magazine, among others.

Excited to kick off a brand new season with the inspiring Lisa Marie Basile. Lisa’s story takes some unpredictable turns from life in foster care to practicing witchcraft and creating rituals. Don’t worry, it’s not as SPOOKY as it may sound! She is an editor, writer and poet living in NYC. She’s written two books of poetry Apocryphal, and Nympholepsy - due out next November. Her upcoming first novel is a fiction about New Orleans, sex death, and finding the self. But her writing doesn't end there, she’s also the founding editor-and-chief of Luna Luna Magazine which has been described as content divided into “light” and “dark”. Listen to her episode and maybe you’ll be just as bewitched by her story as us. Follow Lisa on Instagram @lisamariebasile #lisamariebasile, or reach out to her at Lisambasile@gmail.com / editor@lunalunamagazine.com

Writer, editor, and witch Lisa Marie Basile comes to talk about the magazine she founded, witchcraft, writing, her new novel, death, ritual, and feminism. The time William S. Burroughs tried to curse a coffee shop also comes up. You can learn more about Lisa Marie Basile and her magazine Luna Luna: http://www.lunalunamagazine.com/ https://twitter.com/lisamariebasile http://www.lisambasile.com/ Lisa Marie Basile is an editor, writer and poet living in NYC. She is the founding editor-in-chief of Luna Luna Magazine and the author of APOCRYPHAL (Noctuary Press, 2014), as well as a few chapbooks. Her book, NYMPHOLEPSY (co-authored with poet Alyssa Morhardt-Goldstein), was a finalist in the 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards and will be published in 2018. She is working on her first novel, due out with CLASH Books in 2019. Her poetry and other work can be or will be seen in PANK, Spork, The Atlas Review, Queen Mobs Teahouse, Grimoire, the Tin House blog, PEN American Center, and more.

Episode date, February 9th, 2017: Lisa Marie Basile and Joanna C. Valente are the founding editor-in-chief and managing editor, respectively, of Luna Luna Magazine, which since 2013 has served as "a growing community and online diary interested in art, feminism, literature, opinion, sex and the occult" with content generally divided between dark and light sections. Basile and Valente read a selection of their poetry, while I read Olivia Kate Cerrone's Luna Luna essay, "Tarot As Family Therapy," as well as an occult-themed excerpt from Lothar Müller's book, "White Magic: The Age of Paper." Lisa Marie Basile website: http://www.lisambasile.com/ Joanna C. Valente website: http://joannavalente.com/ Luna Luna Magazine: http://www.lunalunamagazine.com/ Tarot As Family Therapy: http://www.lunalunamagazine.com/dark/family-tarot White Magic: The Age of Paper: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0745672531.html Goethe's Faust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust #talkingpaper #interview #lunalunamagazine #poetry #faust #occult #coven #tarot #writing #radiofreebrooklyn