My___on Mondays

Around the Block is a series collecting city sounds block by block. This week, three walks in or along water: the Basque Block in the rain, the Boise River off Parkcenter, and a canal in East Meridian. To submit a sound for this series, email matt@mingstudios.org.

Everyone has a tooth story. This week, we have readings of a few particular tooth stories collected at Address Book: Teeth. Address Book is an artist collective in Boise, Idaho creating site-specific happenings. To learn more and stay up to date on events, you can find Address Book on Instagram at @addressbookboise.

Susan Lasater is a visual artist and writer whose work can be found on previous episodes of this podcast, including episodes 118 and 143, and in Paper Plane Press. With twenty-seven screws and four rods in her spine, plus a plate in her skull, she can predict the weather. This week, she reads two of her pieces.

Kiala Siman is a New Jersey-born poet, singer, and actress. Her first book of poetry, The girl in the motel room, touches on mental health, childhood trauma, and motherhood. This week, Kiala reads five new poems.

D Kopec is a poet, translator, and essayist. This week, they read the first part of their erasure poem "Walk Dad," made from The Walking Dead's pilot episode script. D's other work includes the chapbook night cries and the book-length poem biosphere 3. You can find more of their work in Equatorial Mag, Oroboro, and Paper Plane.

Mary K Johnson is an artist, designer, and experimental gardener. She sat down this week with Matt Bunk to discuss scarcity mindsets, barter systems, and building equitable communities. You can learn more about Mary K's work and find references for a number of ideas she touched on here:  A Creative Asset .

Around the Block is a series collecting city sounds block by block. This week, three night walks: the Greenbelt, Garden City, and the North End. To submit a sound for this series, email matt@mingstudios.org.

Love's Labour's Lost is a play full of people forcefully stating their intentions and then instantly throwing them aside. This episode is a live recording of the first scene. The Boise Bard Players' production is touring the Treasure Valley 9/4 through 9/14. You can find more information at  boisebardplayers.org .

Courtney Majors is a Utah-based violinist who moves around a lot. She met Matt Bunk in her cousin's suburban Boise backyard to talk vulnerability in art, the Salt Lake City LDS temple, and leaving Utah.

John Wicks is an actor and director focused on amplifying the quiet voices. This week, he sat down with Matt Bunk to discuss making Black theater in a state full of white people and cows.

Andrew Nemr is preparing to tap dance for twelve hours straight. He and Matt Bunk met to discuss burnout, rest, and the choice to endure the night. The Dark Night of the Soul is a free event at TRICA, beginning August 8th at 7 PM and ending August 9th at 7 AM. You can find more about Dark Night here:  https://www.darknightlive.com/ .

Ten vignette poems from Sydney Bergeson, a creative writer and actor based in Boise. Sydney writes about nature, urbanization, and coming to love a new home.

Calvin Udall is the proud owner of three snakes, two geckos, two cats, and an uncountable number of fish. He sat down with Matt Bunk to discuss what home means to animals and what it looks like to be a caregiver when you aren't being cared for. Companion to episode 181: My Marbles, Bill, and Marcie.

Two essays and a poem from Calvin Udall. Calvin Udall is a poet and prose writer who is inspired by the interconnectedness of all things. Exploring pencil work, watercolors, and designing aquascapes and vivariums, he hopes to capture the beauty in the relationship between the natural world and the human condition. These three pieces are about his animals.

Hunter Hill is a writer and actor based in Sacramento, California. This week, a live recording of his performance at Address Book. His piece Puss-in-Suit is written as a modern companion to the 1611 masque Oberon the Fairy Prince by English dramatist Ben Jonson.

Chris Canfield is always running into strange little reflections in life, from revisiting his childhood home to performing the same play ten years apart. He and Matt Bunk met to discuss Shakespeare, loyalty, betrayal, and M.A.S.H.

Teal Gardner of the Ecogeoglyphic Observatory describes RIPARIA as a living landscape underneath capitalist forms of inhabitation. Kicking off a new series on Place, Matt Bunk sat down with Teal to picture the Boise Valley with wonder and love.

Three Angsty Poets gathered, initially chatting about poetry, but the chatting turned to ranting. The ranting turned to rage. The bombardment of news—fake news, real news, personal news—churned into storm. Much like most poets, they took the news and created art. Well…only some of the news. Episode Twelve interrogates the news. My Angst on the News. Now more than ever, create art.

Sara Teasdale, 1884 – 1933. 

Marianne Moore, 1887 - 1972.  

E. Pauline Johnson, 1861 – 1913. 

George Eliot, 1819 – 1880. 

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, 1825-1911.

Three Angsty Poets gathered, initially chatting about poetry, but the chatting turned to ranting. The ranting turned to rage. The music industry bubbled to the surface, and, like most artists, they found themselves back in time—big hair, punked and metaled, and singing lyrics they’d buried long ago. This episode brings their discussion to My Angst on Music and the Written Word.  

Jane Austen, 1775-1817