My___on Mondays

Episode 128: My Maritime Mealtime Poem - MING Public Poetry

The Walrus and the Carpenter from Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, published in 1871.

 

Episode 127: My Poet of the Lands and Ships - MING Public Poetry

To S.M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works, by Phillis Wheatley.

Episode 126: My View of the Smoking High Place - MING Public Poetry

Porphyro In Akron by Hart Crane, 1921.

Episode 125: My Vicarious Call To Beauty - MING Public Poetry

Pan: Double Villanelle by Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900.

Episode 124: My Beans, Spiders, and Mammals by Elisabeth Sharp McKetta

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)

Episode 123: My Conversation with Daniel Toney - MING Artist Interview

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/ 
 

Episode 122: My Songs To Fill A Dark Time - MING Public Poetry

Poems by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Christina Rosetti, Emily Bronte, and Elizabeth Jennings, read by Rebecca Evans.

 

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.  

 

https://rebeccaevanswriter.com/ 

Episode 121: My Lesson In An Imagined Union - MING Public Poetry

Frederick Douglass 1818-1895

Episode 120: My Self: A Song - MING Public Poetry

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. 

 

 

Episode 119: My Conversation with Vassilis Kritikos - MING Artist Interview

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. 

http://www.eilissos.gr