My___on Mondays

Episode 102: My Kipling Classic - MING Public Archives

Recitation of Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling recorded in 1919 for Victor Records.

 

Episode 101: My Guest Poet Revisit - MING Public Archives

Readings by poet Edgar A. Guest recorded for Victor Records in 1919.

Episode 100: My History of Falling by Heidi Kraay - Excerpt from A Century Cycle

Heidi Kraay is a playwright and writer across disciplines. Her work examines the connection between brain and body, seeking empathy with fractured characters. She pulls myth, metaphor and monsters together to attempt connections across difference. Her plays, including Unwind: Hindsight is 2020, see in the dark, How to Hide Your Monster, New Eden, Me and My Shadow, Kilgore, as well as co-devised plays, plays for young audiences, one-acts and short plays, have been presented nationally and internationally.  

Learn more about Heidi and her work at: http://www.heidikraay.com/ 

Wolf/Girl: https://www.morrisoncenter.com/events/detail/wolf-girl 

Episode 99: My Revisit To Aesop Part III - MING Public Archive

The Owl And The Grasshopper, from The Aesop For Children, Illustrated by Milo Winter, 1919.  

https://www.loc.gov/item/19014083/ 

Episode 98: My Revisit To Aesop Part II - MING Public Archives

The Wolf And The Kid, from The Aesop For Children, Illustrated by Milo Winter, 1919.  

https://www.loc.gov/item/19014083/ 

Episode 97: My Revisit to Aesop Part I - MING Public Archives

The Peacock, from The Aesop For Children, 1919.  

https://www.loc.gov/item/19014083/

Episode 96: My Edwardian Love Songs - MING Public Archives

Love songs recorded in 1917 by Victor Records. 

Episode 95: My Climate Grief by Matt Bunk

Matt Bunk is an Idaho artist blending folk Americana roots with kabbalistic mysticism. His work is structured around loops, both of language and ambient sound. As a poet, Matt's work roams from page to stage - where he often performs poetry alongside devised theater or music. His other projects include the band All Around Cowboy, the found-sound cassette collective The Living Room Orchestra, and the essay and poetry podcast Sage Country Fragments.

Episode 94: My Conversation With Rebecca Evans - MING Artist Interview

Rebecca is a memoirist, poet and essayist. Her work reflects, among many things, fractured relationships. This fracturing influences every subsequent relationship––carrying scars and wounds throughout one's life. Evans weaves disability, domestic violence, and a fight for survival throughout her narratives, hoping to start conversations, create awareness, compassion and tolerance.  

To learn more about Rebecca and her work, visit: https://rebeccaevanswriter.com 

Episode 93: My Conversation With Tomas Baiza - MING Artist Interview

Tomas Baiza is the author of the novel, Delivery: A Pocho’s Accidental Guide to College, Love, and Pizza Delivery (Running Wild Press, 2023), and the collection A Purpose to Our Savagery (RIZE Press, 2023). Tomás’s work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Best of the Net, and Best American Short Stories anthologies and has appeared in various print and online anthologies and journals. 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 pizzas to a Klingon-themed orgy at a sci-fi convention. When he is not writing, Tomás is running trails, obsessing over bonsai trees, and playing guitar way too loud. 

 

A Purpose To Our Savagery:

https://www.amazon.com/Purpose-Our-Savagery-Tomas-Baiza/dp/1955062412/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= 

 

Delivery: A Poch o’s Accidental Guide to College, Love, and Pizza Delivery:

https://www.amazon.com/Delivery-Tomas-Baiza/dp/1955062242