My___on Mondays

Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862.

Three writers invite you into their reality with invisible illnesses. Susan Lasater, Maylene Cavazos, and Rebecca Evans share prose and poetry, voicing their altered day-to-day expectations of living with chronic issues.   

Three Angsty Poets gathered, initially chatting about poetry, but the conversation turned, They found themselves invigorated, inspired, and mostly miffed and the world, the gods, the past, the future. In Episode Three they discuss angsty thoughts: My Angst on Pigeonholing Writers, the harm that emerges from typecasting artists, though there can be benefits. They also explore avoiding the pitfalls...

Robert Frost, 1874-1963.

Isabella “Isa” Blagden, 1816/17-1873. 

Christopher Marlowe, 1564-1593.

Djuna Barnes, 1892-1982 

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, 1475-1564. 

O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) 1862-1910. 

Three Angsty Poets, Tomas Baiza, Christian Winn, and Rebeca Evans, gathered again, to talk about what’s bugging them. What followed was a chat, a conversation, an argument, a connection. Here is the second episode in their series of angsty thoughts: My Angst with Autofiction, where they ask, “What’s the point?” 

Mercedes de Acosta, 1892-1968.

Susan Lasater is a writer, poet, and visual artist. She earned her Bachelor of Visual Arts at Boise State University and is a recipient of grants from Backyard Artists and The Alexa Rose Foundation. Susan was previously featured on Episode 118. Around Boise, you can find Susan sketching performers at readings, or writing poems about art shows while sporting a back brace and carrying a lumbar pillo...

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 p...

Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1892-1950.  

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 thei...

De Canciones Que Oyeron Mis Ultimas Muñecas, por Maria Calcaño, 1906-1956. Of Songs Heard By My Last Dolls, by Maria Calcaño. 1906-1956.

The Walrus and the Carpenter from Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, published in 1871.  

To S.M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works, by Phillis Wheatley.

Porphyro In Akron by Hart Crane, 1921.

Pan: Double Villanelle by Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900.

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 thirt...

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 i...

Poems by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Christina Rosetti, Emily Bronte, and Elizabeth Jennings, read by Rebecca 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...

Frederick Douglass 1818-1895

An excerpt from Song of Myself by Walt Whitman, read by Christy Claymore. Christy 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'...