Episodes
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.
Monday Jan 15, 2024
Monday Jan 15, 2024
Monday Jan 08, 2024
Episode 114: My Mother, My Father, Myself Part I by Elisabeth Sharp McKetta
Monday Jan 08, 2024
Monday Jan 08, 2024
Elisabeth Sharp McKetta is the author of thirteen books, including Edit Your Life and The Creative Year: 52 Workshops for Writers. She holds literature degrees from Harvard, Georgetown, and the University of Texas at Austin. She wrote her Ph.D. dissertation on the intersections between memoir and myth, a concept that informs her teaching and writing, and her entire way of looking at the world. She currently teaches writing for Harvard and Oxford and is the founder of The Book Year Writer’s Circle.
Monday Jan 01, 2024
Episode 113: My Memoriam - MING Public Poetry Series
Monday Jan 01, 2024
Monday Jan 01, 2024
Monday Dec 25, 2023
Monday Dec 25, 2023
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.
Cc 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.
Elisabeth Sharp McKetta is the author of thirteen books, including Edit Your Life and The Creative Year: 52 Workshops for Writers. She teaches writing for Harvard and Oxford and is the founder of The Book Year Writer’s Circle.