Sema

conversation with Teal Gardner and Ceci Richardson-Salvador on 05.09.2025 at The Common Well — making work rooted in love with land, finding unification through care, Earth as a neutralizing force; Ceci + Teal 's artist talk on 04.15.2025 (begins 01:16:58) related: Ceci’s website Teal’s website Ecogeoglyphic Observatory

conversation with Ryan Simmons on 04.11.2025 at The Common Well — connection and exchange with nonhuman entities toward relationships of care, sound, projection, impulses to make/record/translate/share, 03.11.2025 river drone bath full drone bath begins 01:39:31 related: Ecogeoglyphic Observatory Boise River Enhancement Network

conversation with Hallie Maxwell on 02.12.2025 at the James Castle House — community, process, form, personal history in place related: Hallie Maxwell’s work James Castle House

conversation with Blake Hunter and Taylor Rico-Pekerol during the opening of INTERCHANGE (Caroline Earley + Kate Walker) at The Common Well on 02.07.2025; follow-up conversation with Blake Hunter on 02.14.2025 — desettling, science fiction, fear, connecting with place through care, ritual, ancestry, language

conversation with Tyler Brewington on 01.23.2025 — record of 01.11.2025 grief release, time, poetry, reckoning with place related: grief release Meet Me At the Center of the Bridge | with Tyler Sema 03: Boise, Friendship Loss, and Time with Tyler Brewington

conversation with Karena Youtz on 01.16.2025 — record of 01.11.2025 grief release, release 1 + 2 context, ritual, care related: grief release

Mairead Case talks with CL Young about relationality in life and after death, embodiment, moving through sadness, and grieving and writing about suicide. /////// Mairead Case writes and teaches in Denver. She is the author of Tiny and See You In the Morning (featherproof), TENDERNESS (Meekling), and To The Teeth, a column at Entropy. Mairead publishes and edits widely, with work most recently in P...

Camille T. Dungy talks with CL Young about loss as an ambient presence, climate crisis, having children, cross-generational relationships, and the importance of storytelling. /////// Camille T. Dungy’s debut collection of personal essays is Guidebook to Relative Strangers (W. W. Norton, 2017), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the author of four collections of poet...

Erinrose Mager talks with CL Young about the unknowingness associated with adoption and parental estrangement, the interplay between potentiality and failure, and ritual as a presencing practice. /////// Erinrose Mager is a writer, editor, and teacher living in Brooklyn, NY. She was born in and adopted from Korea. Her work appears in jubilat, Fence, DIAGRAM, Prelude, and elsewhere, and she’s a doc...

Cedar Brant talks with CL Young about newborn loss, place, and the erasure of self that accompanies deep grief and parenthood. /////// Cedar Brant grew up in northern Montana and worked for many years as a field botanist. She is the author of the book of poems ‘Like Any Other Dream Will Do.’ She currently lives in Moab, Utah where she is training as a birth story listener focusing on birth trauma...

Tyler Brewington talks with CL Young about Boise, time, grief rhythms, and friendship.///////Tyler Brewington is the author of the chapbook Dear Stray Volcano (alice blue, 2015) and, with Kelly Schirmann, the collections Nature Machine and Boyfriend Mountain (Poor Claudia, 2015). His poems have appeared in PEN America’s PEN Poetry Series, Salt Hill, Powder Keg, Sixth Finch, COAST|noCOAST, and else...

Rushi Vyas talks with CL Young about writing after loss, the role of detachment in healing, and ritual as a tool for decolonization.///////Rushi Vyas is a US-born poet now living in Aotearoa New Zealand. He is currently working on a creative/critical PhD in Literature at Te Whare Wānanga o Otākou (The University of Otago) focused on ritual based poetic practice. His first poetry collection, When I...

Ann O’Leary Young, M.S.W., LCSW, talks with CL Young about loss, being a therapist, and grief passed between generations. ///////Sema’s music is from a song by Teal Gardner called “Joy Heraldic.” You can find more of her music here: https://spirit88.bandcamp.com/album/free-in-the-open-field To join the mailing list, request an episode transcript, or share your insights, please send an email to: se...