My___on Mondays

Episode 118: My Mother, My Father, Myself, Part V by Susan Lasater

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.

Episode 117: My Mother, My Father, Myself Part IV by Jodeen Revere

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. 

Episode 116: My Mother, My Father, Myself Part III, by Rebeca 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. 

  

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. 

 

https://rebeccaevanswriter.com/ 

Episode 115: My Mother, My Father, Myself by Calvin Pineda & Daphne Elizabeth Stanford

Calvin Pineda makes music, poetry, and theater with an eye towards the whimsical, pedestrian, and spiritual. They are from Boise, Idaho, and 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. Their most recent albums were released on September 8th-- 'And What Shall We Wear,' an undergraduate gender meditation; and 'Zines From The Duplex Nursing Home,' recorded into a discount eBay cassette deck. They perform with their band as Calvin Pineda and The Antacids, and are one-half of the musical-essay-podcast duo Sage Country Fragments. They enjoy cats, roadside attractions and mint ice cream.

 

Since 2012, Daphne Elizabeth Stanford has hosted “The Poetry Show!” on KRBX/Radio Boise. She holds a BA in English from Reed College, an MAT in Secondary English Education from University of Iowa, and an MFA in Creative Writing from University of Oregon. Her work has been published by Caesura, Lingerpost Press, The Monarch Review, The Cabin: Writers in the Attic, Cliterature: All My Relations, Rabid Oak, Willawaw Journal, and Reservoir. Her chapbook, The Inevitable Surfacing of Bodies, was published in 2019 from Dancing Girl Press.

Episode 114: My Mother, My Father, Myself Part I by Elisabeth Sharp McKetta

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.  

elisabethsharpmcketta.com

Episode 113: My Memoriam - MING Public Poetry Series

Ring Out, Wild Bells, from In Memoriam by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1850.

 

Episode 112: My ThreadsOf A Season by Rebecca Evans, Elisabeth Sharp McKetta & CC Claymore

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. 

rebeccaevanswriter.com 

 

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. 

elisabethsharpmcketta.com

Episode 111: My Conversation with Yazmin Novelo - MING Disappearing Worlds

Yazmín Yadira Novelo Montejo received her Master in Sociolinguistics from Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia. She is a graduate in Social Communication from Autonomous University of Yucatán, Mérida, México and formed in Revitalization of Native Languages and Identities from the University of Mondragón in the Basque Country. Previously, she was associate professor at the Autonomous University of Yucatán and the Autonomous University of Mexico, ENES-Yucatán headquarters. She specializes in the revitalization of native languages and identities through cultural production and the media. She is a founding member of Yúuyum Radio and musical projects in the Mayan language. She is currently director of the U Péekbal Waye', a project which works for Mayan language revitalization. She collaborates as a mentor in linguistic revitalization with Endangered Languages Project and also co-directs the Nojolo'on Community Center for Peace in Peto, Yucatán, a space for citizen activation for Peace and NonViolence. 

Episode 110: My Heart And A Wayward Horseman - Public Poetry

 Wormwood and Nightshade by Adam Lindsay Gordon 1833-1870. 

Episode 109: My Morning Melodic - MING Public Archives

Tango recordings from the early 1920s by Alberto Arenas, Enrique Delfino and Armand Vecsey.