My___on Mondays

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.

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/