The Mash-Up Americans

And end when it’s time. Wisdom from Lewis Carroll, from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, published by MacMillan in 1865.  Thank you for joining us on this 30-day celebration of Lunar New Year. We hope you have an incredible Year of the Fire Horse!  https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Pri...

Our hearts are broken and we’re so grateful for it. Meditations in an Emergency, by Cameron Awkward-Rich, from Dispatch, published by Persea Books in 2019. This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone!  https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast...

What is there but kindness? I Am Not Alone Here, by Jacqueline Suskin from The Verse for Now, published by Flower Press in 2025 This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone!  https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Polic...

Despite reality, reality also demands joy. Life goes on. Thank you to Wislawa Szymborka for Reality Demands, translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, published in View With A Grain of Sand by Harcourt Brace in 1995. This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyo...

Be you, and do it on purpose! Thanks to Maya Angelou and Dolly Parton.  This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone!  https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Priva...

Summoning our strength of heart with Rabbi Susan Goldberg of our beloved Nefesh in Los Angeles.  This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone!  https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/pri...

Let Bong Joon Ho show us the way.  This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone!  https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privac...

What is art?  Thank you to Shaun Usher of the Letters of Note Newsletter, one of our very favorite joys of the internet. This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone!  https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy...

How do we ask for what we need? Different Ways to Pray by Naomi Shihab Nye, from Words Under the Words: Selected Poems , published by Far Corner Books in 1995.  This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone!  https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-dai...

A poem (a prayer?) from Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi.  This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone!  https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://a...

James Baldwin has something to say about it. From Notes on the House of Bondage, published in The Nation in 1980. This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone!  https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://a...

More advice from some of the greats. Wisdom from across the 20th century from Franz Kafka and Eddie Murphy.  This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone!  https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://a...

Remembering everything that comes in our name is essential. Be proud! Be Choi. Choi Jeong Min by Franny Choi, published in Poetry Magazine in 2016. This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone!  https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-li...

We can let it fall, sometimes. A Poem for Someone Who Is Juggling Her Life, by Rose Cook, from Notes From a Bright Field, published by Cultured Llama in 2013. This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone!  https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podc...

A few proverbs from across the continents, tied together by the Dalai Lama.  This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone!  https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California...

Sometimes democracy requires patience. Don’t we know it! Democracy Poem #1 by June Jordan, from The Essential June Jordan, published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020. This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone!  https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-dail...

 If we use our time well, we have plenty of it. A reminder from the philosopher Seneca, from On The Shortness of Life.  This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone!  https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Pol...

Can you draw your own face? Some notes by Jorge Luis Borges from Horse, Stars, Men, published in Aleph and Other Stories by Penguin Classics in 2004.  This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone!  https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast...

Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada Limón from Poem-a-Day, published by the Academy of American Poets in 2017. This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone!  https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://art...

William Shakespeare says our riches on the inside is better than anything we could find on the outside, and we agree. This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone!  https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https...

No kindness is ever too small. Thank you for Small Kindnesses to Danusha Laméris, from Bonfire Opera , published by University of Pittsburgh Press in 2020. This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone!  https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast...

You are always important, and you are always somebody, from Emily Dickinson. This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone!  https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Priva...

A reminder that we always need art by Edwidge Danticatt, from Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist At Work, published by Princeton University Press in 2010. Learn more at edwidgedanticat.com .  This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone!  https://bookshop...

Yiddish proverbs always get it in very few words. For more wisdom and delight -  This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone!  https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Califor...

A poem from Victoria Chang, from The Trees Witness Everything, published by Copper Canyon Press in 2022. Learn more @fattery12. This Lunar New Year we’re trying something different - 30 days of short daily episodes with art, poetry, and words of wisdom and humor. Happy Year of the Fire Horse everyone!  https://bookshop.org/lists/mash-up-lunar-new-year-daily-podcast-book-list See Privacy Polic...