Episodes
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Pan: Double Villanelle by Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900.
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Episode 124: My Beans, Spiders, and Mammals by Elisabeth Sharp McKetta
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Monday Mar 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)
Monday Mar 11, 2024
Episode 123: My Conversation with Daniel Toney - MING Artist Interview
Monday Mar 11, 2024
Monday Mar 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:
https://thebridgehousetheatre.co.uk/shows/mine-or-unapologetically-autistic/
Monday Mar 04, 2024
Episode 122: My Songs To Fill A Dark Time - MING Public Poetry
Monday Mar 04, 2024
Monday Mar 04, 2024
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Episode 121: My Lesson In An Imagined Union - MING Public Poetry
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Frederick Douglass 1818-1895
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Episode 120: My Self: A Song - MING Public Poetry
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Monday Feb 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.
Monday Feb 12, 2024
Episode 119: My Conversation with Vassilis Kritikos - MING Artist Interview
Monday Feb 12, 2024
Monday Feb 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.
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Episode 118: My Mother, My Father, Myself, Part V by Susan Lasater
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Monday Feb 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.
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Episode 117: My Mother, My Father, Myself Part IV by Jodeen Revere
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Monday Jan 29, 2024
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, titled One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Shades of White.
Monday Jan 22, 2024
Episode 116: My Mother, My Father, Myself Part III, by Rebeca Evans
Monday Jan 22, 2024
Monday Jan 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.