My___on Mondays

Tiffany Eller is a poet, entertainer, and all-around creative. Her poetry explores themes of spirituality, love, and the complexities of being human. She values vulnerability and authenticity, advocating for everyone to find the freedom to Be. Her first publication, the Little Cuties coloring book, featured hand-drawn characters to encourage body positivity. Every project she finds herself poring...

Christy Claymore is a Boise-based writer, editor, and educator who enjoys running the foothills and adventuring with her kids. She has been published in the Cabin’s Writers in the Attic anthologies over the years, as well as other Treasure Valley publications. This week, she shares two poems and the opening of a novel in progress.

Simon Schabot is a 35 mm slide collector and (creative) writer. They've presented for Storyfort, The Backyard Artists, Realms, The Spill and Address Book. Their published work is forthcoming (they promise.) In the meantime, here are three of their essays on gardening.

This week, we have five new poems for children from Syd Bergeson, a creative writer and actor based in Boise, Idaho. Syd’s work explores nature and urban spaces.

Kelly Cox and Eric Mullis are a long-standing collaborative artist team who met on a ceramics field trip in high school in Madison, Wisconsin. Over decades of working together, they have produced work across five states and exhibited nationally and internationally. Their work investigates the dissonance between physical, digital, and psychic space, drawing on the mythologies of architecture, produ...

Andy Wynn is a video artist and archivist originally from Boise, Idaho, now living in Sacramento, California. He has a lasting fondness for VHS scanlines. An obsessive scraper of hidden Internet corners, Andy constructs portraits of subcultures from fandoms to hate groups through video and image collages. His work is one part playful, one part political, and one part purely bizarre. This week, he...

Elena Maddy is a writer and stage manager originally from Roseville, California, now based in Boise, Idaho. When she writes, she writes about home. This week, she shares three sonnets and three sonnet crowns.

Daniel Mosakewicz grew up on a steady diet of comics, Star Wars, and books about things that could not possibly happen. He earned his degrees in English Literature and History from Appalachian State. Originally from North Carolina, he now resides in Boise, Idaho, where he eats too much Mexican food and listens to too much Bruce Springsteen. This week, we have a live recording from his reading at M...

Falconers Hand is the solo project of Boise-based musician John Evans. Falconers Hand creates sound sketches: short, semi-ambient nudges toward story. This set of four sketches is A Couple Thoughts on Space Travel. John is currently at work on the first collected album of Falconers Hand sketches.

Ben Owens is a Portland local. He's a mechanic by day and a sound designer by night. This week, he shares a new piece of noise art: "Answering Machine." You can listen to more of Ben's work on episode 200: My Elevator Music.

Around the Block is a series collecting city sounds block by block. This week, three walks in three cities: owls in the Boise hills, traffic in Sacramento, and the train station in Copenhagen. To submit a sound for this series, email matt@mingstudios.org.

Irina Novarese is a visual artist who works with mixed media installations, editions and video. Her works start from affinities – encounters with themes deeply related to urban spaces. She navigates them, collects data and remaps her own networks of associations, working site-specifically in the multiple contexts related to cities. This week, she shares the only recording of text from her piece  D...

A multi-disciplinary painter and mixed-media artist, McCormick creates an evolving cosmology centered on his imagined extraterrestrial society known as HOMOS, beings shaped by gay history, symbolic reclamation, and the undercurrents of pop culture. As he finished up his residency at MING, Maggi sat down with Matt Bunk for a conversation on influences, process, and what's next for the HOMOS.

Sounds of the third annual winter parade organized by Tim Andreae. A small band of marchers advances on the Boise foothills with whistles, drums, sticks, and one trombone.

Ruth Decker is a pianist and composer from Helena, Montana who says the aims of her compositions are to draw out the music already hidden in the instruments. This week, a set of four new pieces: "Four Small Machines". You can find more of her music on episode 196.

Sam Gillespie is a writer and voice actor based in Los Angeles. He says most of his work is written in fits of insomnia. This week, he shares six short poems.

Sequoia is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. His songs tell stories of the now, becoming an archive of the present moment. This week, he shares two songs from his project "One": "Lovebug" and "Wanna Be." The live album is available now and the full project, including video, will be rolling out online January 1, 2026.

Around the Block is a series collecting city sounds block by block. This week, three walks in the Linen District. To submit a sound for this series, email matt@mingstudios.org.

Elena Maddy is a writer and stage manager originally from Roseville, California, now based in Boise, Idaho. When she writes, she writes about home. This week, she shares eight short poems on love. This episode is a companion to episode 198: My Temporary Intimacies and Lifelong Friends.

Ben Owens is a Portland local. He's a mechanic by day and a sound designer by night. This week, he shares a new piece of sound art: "Elevator Ride in Five Stops."

Logan Leavitt is an interdisciplinary artist based in Boise, Idaho. His work is rooted in place and often spontaneous. This week, he shares a new piece of sound art: "If It's Life." You can find and listen to more of his music under his name or with the band Leading Lines.

Elena Maddy is a writer and stage manager originally from Roseville, California, now settled in Boise, Idaho. When she writes, she writes about home. This week, she sat down with Matt Bunk to discuss exploring cities on foot and how you know when you're home.

Richard Rachman is a poet and plant ecologist originally from Los Angeles, now living in Bishop, California. He writes a lot about birds, but he says he doesn't like them as much as plants. This week, he shares six new poems.

Ruth Decker is a pianist and composer from Helena, Montana who says the aims of her compositions are to draw out the music already hidden in the instruments. This week, she shares a suite of five original piano pieces: The Green Ribbon Suite.

Daniel Mosakewicz grew up on a steady diet of comics, Star Wars, and books about things that could not possibly happen. He earned his degrees in English Literature and History from Appalachian State. Originally from North Carolina, he now resides in Boise, Idaho, where he eats too much Mexican food and listens to too much Bruce Springsteen. This week, he shares two short stories and a poem.