My___on Mondays

Episode 138: My Noveless of Night & Naught - MING Public Poetry

Djuna Barnes, 1892-1982 

Episode 137: My Goitered Chapel Groan - MING Public Poetry

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, 1475-1564. 

Episode 136: My Dreaming King of Cabbages & Crucibles - MING Public Poetry

O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) 1862-1910. 

Episode 135: My Angst with Autofiction, by Tomas Baiza, Christian Winn, & Rebecca Evans

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?” 

Episode 134: My Beating Applause to a Fearless Femme - MING Public Poetry

Mercedes de Acosta, 1892-1968.

My Advice on How to Talk About Pain with Your Doctor, by Susan Lasater

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

Episode 132: My Angst On Your Perception, by Rebecca Evans, Tomas Baiza, & Christian Winn

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 

Episode 131: My Daring Birds - MING Public Poetry

Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1892-1950.

 

Episode 130: My Body Is A Cassette Tape, by Calvin Pineda

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.

Episode 129: My Remembrance of Crowns and Rags - MING Public Poetry

De Canciones Que Oyeron Mis Ultimas Muñecas, por Maria Calcaño, 1906-1956.

Of Songs Heard By My Last Dolls, by Maria Calcaño. 1906-1956.