- Arts Calling Podcast #39 Richard Jeffrey Newman | Teaching, co-translating, and sharing truth in poetry
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Today I am delighted to bring you this conversation: Today I am arts calling Richard Jeffrey Newman!
About Richard: Poet. Literary co-translator. Essayist. Proud community college professor. Survivor of childhood sexual abuse. Curator, First Tuesdays reading series.
As a poet and essayist, Richard Jeffrey Newman’s work is rooted in the impact of feminism on his life as a man. As a co-translator of classical Persian poetry, he writes about the impact of that canon on our contemporary lives. His own books of poetry are, most recently, Words for What Those Men Have Done, (Guernica Editions 2017) and For My Son, A Kind of Prayer (Ghostbird Press in 2016). CavanKerry Press published his first book, The Silence of Men, in 2006. His most recent book of translations is The Teller of Tales: Stories From Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh (Junction Press 2011). Newman is on the Board of Directors of Newtown Literary and curates the First Tuesdays reading series in Jackson Heights, NY. He is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Nassau Community College. After ten years of service to his union, he is once again focusing on his writing. His website is http://richardjnewman.com.
Thank you so much for talking with me, Richard!
(TW: Experiences of sexual abuse are briefly discussed in this episode).
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- Arts Calling Podcast #38 Eli Godfrey | Writing, voice dubbing, and imagining worlds
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This is Jaime Alejandro. Today I am thrilled to be arts calling Eli Godfrey!
Eli is a writer and voice actor based in Los Angeles.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3229378/
Eli’s poetry collection, Imagine a World, now on Amazon! https://www.amazon.com/Imagine-World-Poems-about-dictators-ebook/dp/B09RZX9GZJ
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- Arts Calling Podcast #37 Shaine Greenwood Part II | Design, the future, and the self-contained art machine
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National Poetry Month may have ended, but we have a handful more episodes with poets this May! Today I’m so excited to be arts calling Shaine Greenwood, our first ever repeat guest!
About Shaine:
Shaine Greenwood is a Seattle-based writer, artist, and weirdo. He writes poetry, sci-fi, and literary fiction with a focus on people and what makes them tick. You can find his work here:
Check out The Aether, now on Amazon!
Also, here’s Shaine’s poetry collection, Faces.
Thanks so much for taking the time to chat Shaine, what a blast!
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- Arts Calling Podcast #36 Lynne Jensen Lampe | Mothers, rabbit holes, and family typewriters
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National Poetry Month may have ended, but we have a handful more episodes with poets this May! Today I am thrilled to be arts calling Lynne Jensen Lampe!
About Lynne:
She inherited a wooden bowl, her grandpa’s pipe, and a bug saved since 1944 when her mother, only 10, had something stuck in her ear. Tethers to the past still waiting for their poem. But her dad’s Smith Corona typewriter? Her mother’s mental illness? Already on the page.
Lynne Jensen Lampe writes poetry about family, mental illness, and societal expectations. Following and breaking rules. Stigma. Soon after Lynne was born, her mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia and sent from the air base in Newfoundland to a hospital in Florida, the first of many such separations.
Lynne’s poems appear in Yemassee, Anti-Heroin Chic, The American Journal of Poetry, Rock & Sling, Small Orange, LIT Magazine, and elsewhere. Her chapbook about mother-daughter relationships and mental illness, Talk Smack to a Hurricane, is forthcoming from Ice Floe Press in 2022. She is a Best of the Net nominee, and her poem “Stirring the Ashes” was a finalist for the 2020 Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize.
When not writing, Lynne edits academic books, research journals, and YA novels. She lives in mid-Missouri with her musician husband and a friendly number of dust bunnies.
Visit her website for publications and the latest updates! https://lynnejensenlampe.com/
Thanks for coming on the show, Lynne!
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- Arts Calling Podcast #35 Anindita Sengupta | Journalism, embracing language, and a sense of place
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National Poetry Month may have ended, but we have a handful more episodes with poets this May! Today I am thrilled to be arts calling Anindita Sengupta!
About:
Anindita Sengupta is the author of Only the Forest Knows (Paperwall, forthcoming), Walk Like Monsters (Paperwall, 2016), and City of Water (Sahitya Akademi, 2010). Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in several anthologies and in journals such as Plume, 580 Split, per happened, Feral, One and Breakwater Review. She has received fellowships / awards from the Charles Wallace Trust India, the International Reporting Project, TFA India and Muse India.
Her journalistic articles have appeared in The Guardian, UK, and many Indian publications. She was founder-editor of Ultraviolet.in, a webzine for young Indian feminists. With over two decades of experience in writing, journalism and communications management, she has worked for non-profits such as Gender at Work, Samuha India and Fida International.
She is from Mumbai, India, and currently lives in Los Angeles, CA.
Visit aninditasengupta.com for the latest publications!
Thanks for coming on the show, Anindita!
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- Arts Calling Podcast #34 Jennifer Schomburg Kanke | Poetry for everyone, nature, and continuing to learn
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National Poetry Month continues! Today I am so happy to be arts calling Jennifer Schomburg Kanke!
About: Jennifer Schomburg Kanke is a writer and editor living in Tallahassee, Florida. She is the author of the chapbook of micropoems Fine, Considering (Rinky Dink Press, 2019) about her experiences undergoing chemotherapy for ovarian cancer; the winner of the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s annual contest in 2013 for the under 10 line category; and has been nominated for both the Pushcart and the Best of the Net. Her work has appeared in Massachusetts Review, Salamander, New Ohio Review, Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, Nimrod, and other journals. She is also an active member in the Poetry Witch Community, helping publicize Annie Finch’s course offerings and serving as instructional support for a self-paced course in metrical poetry. She was previously Reviews Editor at Pleiades, Poetry Editor for the Southeast Review, an editor at Quarter After Eight and a reader for Emrys. She has a PhD from Florida State University and multiple degrees (MA, MEd, and BSEd) from Ohio University. Her current writing projects include a novel-in-verse about Appalachian Ohio from the 1930s to the early 2000s and a fictional memoir written by entraining to William Wordsworth’s “The Prelude.” Her writing often covers topics related to socioeconomic class, C-PTSD, Appalachia, and the environment. She blogs sporadically (typically about new NSA cookie recipes she’s developing) at https://lightmeridian.wordpress.com. If you’d like to contact her about her writing, you can find her on Twitter @JSK1975.
For Jennifer’s latest publications, visit: http://www.jenniferschomburgkanke.com
Thanks for coming on the show, Jennifer!
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- Arts Calling Podcast #33 Jared Beloff | Marvelous verses, imagery, and teaching
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National Poetry Month Extravaganza continues! Today I am arts calling Jared Beloff!
About:
Jared Beloff earned degrees at Rutgers University (BA in English) Johns Hopkins University (MA in English Literature, specializing in the novel and Romantic/18th Century Literature).
Jared has been an adjunct professor at Queensborough Community College, an English teacher and a teacher mentor in NYC public schools for 15 years.
Jared is currently a peer reviewer for The Whale Road Review. His poetry can be found in Contrary Magazine, Barren Magazine, KGB Bar Lit, The Shore, Rise Up Review, Bending Genres and elsewhere. His work has been nominated for Best of the Net. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Queens, NY. www.jaredbeloff.com
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For Jared’s latest publications online, visit: https://www.jaredbeloff.com/publications
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/Read_Instead
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- Arts Calling Podcast #32 Beth Gordon | Poetry, loved ones, and the water cycle
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Hope you’re having an excellent National Poetry Month! Today I am thrilled to be arts calling Beth Gordon!
About: Beth Gordon is a poet, mother and grandmother currently living in Asheville, NC.
Her poems have been nominated for Best of the Net, Pushcart and the Orison Anthology. She is the author of two chapbooks: Morning Walk with Dead Possum, Breakfast and Parallel Universe (Animal Heart Press) and Particularly Dangerous Situation (Clare Songbird Publishing). She is Managing Editor of Feral, Assistant Editor of Animal Heart Press and Poetry Editor of Gone Lawn.
Stop by bethgordonpoetry.com for more information!
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- Arts Calling Podcast #31 Lannie Stabile | Spreadsheets, dogs named Zeus, and life stories through poetry
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National Poetry Month Extravaganza rolls on and on! Today I am so excited to be arts calling Lannie Stabile!
About:
Lannie Stabile (she/her), a queer Detroiter, is the winner of OutWrite’s 2020 Chapbook Competition in Poetry and a back-to-back semifinalist for the Button Poetry Chapbook Contest. Lannie was also named a 2020 Best of the Net finalist. Her debut poetry full-length, Good Morning to Everyone Except Men Who Name Their Dogs Zeus, was published in 2021 by Cephalopress. In 2022, look out for her fiction debut, Something Dead in Everything (ELJ Editions). Find her on Twitter @LannieStabile or @NotALitMag, where she throws random writing contests and open mics.
Lannie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LannieStabile
For updates and recent poetry, stop by here: https://lanniestabile.com/
Something Dead in Everything, her debut fiction collection, is available for pre-order through . It has queer ghosts, murderous hamsters, and hungry geese! @EmergeJournal https://elj-editions.com/book-store/
Thanks for coming on the show, Lannie! All the best!
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- Arts Calling Podcast #30 Lauren Theresa | Plants, poetry, and writing beyond the self
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National Poetry Extravaganza continues! Today I’m excited to be arts calling Lauren Theresa!
About:
Lauren Theresa is a divergent poet, herbalist, trauma therapist, and Hekatean witch living in NJ with her tiny family and menagerie of plants.She moonlights as Poetry Editor with the awesome folks at Olney Magazine, and is the author of the forthcoming chapbook LOST THINGS (Bullshit Lit August ’22). Lauren’s work has been featured in HAD, Maudlin House, Rejection Letters, Gutslut Press, Tiny Wren, Warning Lines, Daily Drunk Mag, that one awkward family gathering, and more.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ImLaurenTheresa
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imlaurentheresa
Thanks for coming on the show, Lauren!
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- Arts Calling Podcast #29 Susan Nguyen | Dear Diaspora, zine-making, and identity through memories
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National Poetry Month Extravaganza is rolling along! Today I’m overjoyed to be arts calling Susan Nguyen!
About Susan:
Susan Nguyen’s debut poetry collection, Dear Diaspora, won the 2020 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and was published by the University of Nebraska Press in Sept 2021. She has been the Senior Editor at Hayden’s Ferry Review since the end of 2021. Nguyen’s poetry is often interested in the body: how geography, history, and trauma leave markers, both visible and invisible. Her poems have been nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize and have appeared or are forthcoming in The Rumpus, Tin House, Diagram, and elsewhere. She is an alum of Tin House Winter & Summer Workshops and Idyllwild Writers Week. Her hobbies, beyond reading and writing, include photography, zinemaking, hiking, and otherwise being outdoors. Nguyen received her BA in English from Virginia Tech and her MFA in poetry from Arizona State University where she was the poetry editor for Hayden’s Ferry Review. She has taught creative writing at ASU and the National University of Singapore. She is the recipient of multiple fellowships from the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, including one that enabled her to conduct an oral history project centered on the Vietnamese diaspora. She was named one of “three women poets to watch in 2018” by PBS NewsHour.
Visit Susan’s website for more information: https://susanpoet.com/
Check out Susan’s amazing readings and recent publications here: https://linktr.ee/sanguyen
Thanks for coming on the show, Susan!
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- Arts Calling Podcast #28 Saúl Hernández | Family, visceral poetry, y la Mexicanada
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National Poetry Month goes on and on! So thrilled to be arts calling Saúl Hernández today!
About Saúl:
Saúl Hernández is a queer writer from San Antonio, TX who was raised by undocumented parents. Saúl has an MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Texas at El Paso. He’s the winner of the Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize 2021 chosen by Victoria Chang. He’s a finalist for Palette Poetry 2020 Spotlight Award. Also, a finalist for the 2019 Submerging Writer Fellowship, Fear No Lit; semi-finalists for the 2018 Francine Ringold Award for New Writers, Nimrod Literary Journal. His poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of The Net. Saúl’s work is forthcoming/featured in Frontier Poetry, Poet Lore, Foglifter Journal, Oyster River Pages, Cherry Tree, Atlanta Review, Quarterly West, PANK Magazine, Pidgeonholes, The Acentos Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, The Normal School, Rio Grande Review, and Adelaid Literary Magazine. He’s participated in MACONDO and Tin House Workshops. He currently lives in San Antonio, TX.
https://www.saulhernandez.net/
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Thanks so much for coming on the show, Saúl!
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- Arts Calling Podcast #27 Jay Rafferty | Catholicism, culture, and a collection of holy things
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National Poetry Month Extravaganza continues woohoo! Today I’m so happy to be arts calling Jay Rafferty!
About Jay: Jay Rafferty was born in County Armagh, Northern Ireland on Bloomsday 1997. He studied at St Patrick’s Grammar School, the same secondary school the Irish poet Paul Muldoon attended.
He completed his undergraduate studies at Ulster University (with a brief stint at San Diego State University) during which time he presented a paper at the SDSU Research Symposium, featured on a student panel at the Willa Cather Conference, attended several John Hewitt International Summer School events and competed in the All-Ulster Poetry Slam finals. His undergraduate thesis was concerned with advocacy for the New Adult genre with a specific focus on the work of Bryan Lee O’Malley and the web-series Bee and Puppycat. In 2020 he completed his master’s degree studies, again at Ulster University, with a heavy concentration on creative writing studies.
Since graduation he has been published widely in several literary journals throughout the United States and the UK. His poetry was nominated for the Best of the Net awards in 2021 by Sage Cigarettes Magazine, which he would later go on to join as Social Media Manager, and more recently as Poetry Editor. In these positions he has spearheaded book reviews, artist interviews and pride month features for the magazine’s website. March 2022 saw the release of his debut chapbook, Holy Things.
He is an uncle, an eejit and a terrible pool player.
Jay’s Website: https://jsprafferty.wixsite.com/jayraffertypoet-1
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Thank you for joining me on the show Jay! It was a pleasure!
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- Arts Calling Podcast #26 David Rosenthal | Writing in meter, teaching, and other misplaced things
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National Poetry Month Extravaganza continues! Today I am arts calling David Rosenthal!
As a poet:
David Rosenthal is the author of The Wild Geography of Misplaced Things (White Violet Press). His poems and translations have appeared in print and online in Measure Review, The Rising Phoenix Review, Teachers & Writers Magazine, Raintown Review, Unsplendid, Birmingham Poetry Review, Modern Haiku, Umbrella, and several other journals. He has been a Pushcart Prize Nominee, a Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award Finalist, and a Soul-Making Keats Sonnet Prize winner. davidrosenthal.weebly.com
As a Teacher:
David Rosenthal has been a credentialed public schoolteacher and instructional coach for the past twenty years. He has served on multiple site and district committees and task forces, and has been a teacher leader in math, language arts, and social emotional learning. He has designed and delivered professional development in multiple content areas, and is an experienced coach of new and veteran teachers.
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Check out more of David’s work available online here:
David Rosenthal Poems and Publications – David Rosenthal Poet and Teacher (weebly.com)
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- Arts Calling Podcast #25 Alison Lubar | Poems and philosophy, teaching, and intersectionality
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National Poetry Month Extravaganza continues! Today I am so thrilled to be arts calling Alison Lubar!
About:
Alison Lubar teaches high school English by day and yoga by night. They are a queer, nonbinary femme of color whose life work (aside from wordsmithing) has evolved into bringing mindfulness practices, and sometimes even poetry, to young people. Their debut chapbook, Philosophers Know Nothing About Love, is forthcoming with Thirty West Publishing in May 2022. Most recently, their work has been published by or is forthcoming with Moonstone Press, New York Quarterly, and Sinister Wisdom; you can find out more at http://alisonlubar.com/ or on Twitter @theoriginalison.
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Praise for Philosophers Know Nothing About Love:
“Alison Lubar’s Philosophers Know Nothing About Love is instantly recognizable as a triumph of language and the imagination. Its dreaminess, melodic charm, and entrancing sensual imagery have the extraordinary effect of slowing or halting time itself. What then emerges from each poem are these glimpses into a higher reality, the uncanny “sublime” beyond all mortal comprehension, gorgeously rendered to the page. Enchanting, otherworldy, intimate, and enthralling, Lubar’s debut is beyond what we call a stroke of brilliance; rather, it is a reflection of a doubtless talent, sure to sweep away their readers time and time again.”
—Jonathan Koven, author of Palm Lines and Below Torrential Hill
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Thanks so much for coming on the show Alison!
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- Arts Calling Podcast #24 Karla Linn Merrifield | A life of art, guitar poems, and showing up
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National Poetry Month Extravaganza begins! Ecstatic to be arts calling Karla Linn Merrifield!
Karla Linn Merrifield has had 1000+ poems appear in dozens of journals and anthologies. She has 15 books to her credit. Following her 2018 Psyche’s Scroll (Poetry Box Select) is the full-length book Athabaskan Fractal: Poems of the Far North from Cirque Press. Her newest poetry collection, My Body the Guitar, inspired by famous guitarists and their guitars was published in December 2021 by Before Your Quiet Eyes Publications Holograph Series (Rochester, NY). She is a frequent contributor to The Songs of Eretz Poetry Review.
Web site: https://karlalinnmerrifield.org;
Blog at https://karlalinnmerrifeld.wordpress.com;
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LinnMerrifiel
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karlalinnm/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/karlalinn.merrifield
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- Arts Calling Podcast #23 Christopher Soriano-Palma | Writing for various mediums, fiction editing, and bookselling
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Poetry Month Extravaganza continues! I’m overjoyed to be arts calling Christopher Soriano-Palma!
About: Christopher Soriano-Palma is a writer and bookseller. Born and raised in Watsonville, CA., he earned his MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco. He is a contributor to Reclamation Magazine and a staff writer for Alebrijes Review. He has briefly volunteered as a screenwriting instructor for the Digital NEST, a nonprofit located in Watsonville. He currently lives in Los Angeles and is at work on several projects.
Visit Christopher’s Website/Blog here: christophersorianowrites.wordpress.com
Check out Chris’s favorite works at Bookshop.org: bookshop.org/shop/chsoripalma
Chris on Medium: chsoripalma.medium.com
And don’t forget to visit his Goodreads! Christopher Soriano-Palma (chsoripalma)
NHMC Scriptwriters Program that was mentioned: https://nhmc.org/writers/
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j
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- Arts Calling Podcast #22 Christian J. Collier | Genuine impact, multiple mediums, and the gleaming of the blade
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My name is Jaime and I interview creatives from all walks of life. Today I am over the moon to be arts calling Christian J. Collier!
About Christian: “He’s got a compelling voice, and he can electrify an audience.” -Michael Edward Miller, Host of Around & About
Perhaps the best way to describe him is by what he doesn’t do. Christian is a modern renaissance man (poet, musician, educator, event host, etc.) who has been called a street beatnik, the spoken-word rockstar, and an artist to watch among other (mostly positive) things. Regardless of the medium though, Christian’s objective is the same: to genuinely impact and connect with each audience he’s in front of. It is this mission statement that has motivated him to keep pushing himself to delve deeper as an artist, performer, and person. Christian J. Collier is a Black, Southern writer, arts organizer, and teaching artist who resides in Chattanooga, TN. He is the author of the chapbook The Gleaming of the Blade from Bull City Press. His works have appeared or are forthcoming in North American Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Atlanta Review, and elsewhere. A 2015 Loft Spoken Word Immersion Fellow, he is also the winner of the 2020 ProForma Contest and the 2019-2020 Seven Hills Review Poetry Contest.
SUPPORT CHRISTIAN’S WORK! The Gleaming of the Blade now available through Bull City Press. Click to purchase!
Christian’s Website: http://www.christianjcollier.com/
For more interviews and content from Christian, check out his linktree: https://linktr.ee/ChristianJCollier
Thank you so much for coming on the show, Christian!
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- Arts Calling Podcast #21 Joseph Lezza | Advertising voices, lyrical confessions, and the Costco Box
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Today I’m thrilled to be arts calling Joseph Lezza!
Joseph Lezza is a writer in New York, NY. Holding an MFA in creative writing from The University of Texas at El Paso, his work has been featured in, among others, The Hopper, Stoneboat Literary Journal, Still: The Journal, West Trade Review, and Santa Fe Writers Project. His debut memoir in essays, “I’m Never Fine,” is due out February 2023 from Vine Leaves Press. When he’s not writing, he spends his time worrying about why he’s not writing. His website is http://josephlezza.com and you can find him on the socials
Recent publications:
Death, the Moon & Dry-Rubbed Steak – Still: The Journal http://stilljournal.net/joseph-lezza-cnf2018.php…
Wading Toward Willamette – The Hopper (nominated for the 2020 Best of the Net Anthology) http://hoppermag.org/wading-toward-willamette…
The Space Between the Tenses – Stoneboat Literary Journal https://josephlezza.com/the-space-between-the-tenses.html…
Little Murders – Cleaning Up Glitter https://cleaningupglitter.com/little-murders
The Simple Guide to Redefinition in Oslo, Norway – Fearsome Critters (page 150) https://issuu.com/fearsomecritters/docs/fearsome_critters_issu
Joseph’s first book, a collection of essays entitled I’m Never Fine, is due out February 2023 from Vine Leaves Press.
Thank you for stopping by, Joseph!
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j
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- Arts Calling Podcast #20 Janet Swainston | Screenwriting, micro-budget filmmaking, staying creative in Canada
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Today I am excited to be arts calling writer/director Janet Swainston!
Janet’s Pitch:
Forged in a small town in Southern Ontario, Canada with the chance to learn and make films bleak and non-existent, my passion for writing focused like a laser on the stage, but by the time I was 16, after seeing a little film called Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, my passion was engulfed by film.
I began to write scripts, terrible ones at first, learning as I grew. I was then required to make a living, as running away to Hollywood wasn’t practical for a small-town girl from Canada. I started work in office administration assisting, moved into retail, found community theater and eventually found my way back into film.
I bought a camera, made some short films, directed a feature for hire and began to plan my career in earnest. Then tragedy struck and I became disabled, awaiting an operation to restore my life, but that didn’t daunt me. I continued to learn and grow as a screenwriter, found Twitter and joined the screenwriting community.
As of today, I write features and series, host table reads for other writers under my company banner of Northern Unicorn Films Ltd., read other writers, and keep working towards that dream of being a working screenwriter.
Check out my original scripts here. The table reads: https://northernunicornfilmsltd.com/ My website: https://janetswainston.wixsite.com/my-site-1
Thanks for coming on the show Janet, it was such a pleasure!
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j
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- Arts Calling Podcast #19 Joseph Fasano | Form is freedom, making poetry on Twitter, and a Father’s love
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Today I am incredibly excited to be arts calling Joseph Fasano!
Joseph Fasano is a writer and educator. He studied mathematics and astrophysics at Harvard University before changing his course of study and earning a degree in philosophy, with a focus on philosophy of language after Wittgenstein. He did his graduate study in poetry at Columbia University, where he now teaches. Beyond his Professorships at Columbia University and Manhattanville College, Fasano is passionate about developing inclusive learning communities outside the walls of academic institutions. As an educator, his mission is to help each student synthesize diverse fields of study to develop a unique and informed voice, a depth of attention, and a capacity to break free of reductive mindsets.
Fasano is the author of the novel The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing (Platypus Press, 2020), which was named one of the “20 Best Small Press Books of 2020.” His books of poetry are The Crossing (Cider Press Review, 2018), praised by Ilya Kaminsky for its “lush drive to live, even in the darkest moments”; Vincent (2015), which Rain Taxi Review hailed as a “major literary achievement”; Inheritance (2014), a James Laughlin Award nominee; and Fugue for Other Hands (2013), which won the Cider Press Review Book Award and was nominated for the Poets’ Prize, “awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award.”
A winner of the RATTLE Poetry Prize, he serves on the Editorial Board of Alice James Books, and he is the Founder of the Poem for You Series, a digital space offering recitations of listeners’ favorite poems by request. His writing has appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, The Yale Review, The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, Boston Review, American Poets, Measure, Tin House, American Poetry Journal, The Adroit Journal, American Literary Review, Verse Daily, the PEN Poetry Series, the Academy of American Poets’ poem-a-day program, and other publications. It has been widely anthologized and translated into many languages, including Spanish, Swedish, Lithuanian, Chinese, Russian, and Ukrainian. He is also a songwriter, and his songs and performances can be found on his social media platforms.
For more information, please visit: http://josephfasano.net/
Main Twitter: @Joseph_Fasano_
A Poem for my Son Twitter: @stars_poem
Check out Joseph’s latest track on YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UMpEbuTaNUA
Visit the Poem for You Community on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/poem_for_you_series
Thanks again for stopping by, Joseph: it was an absolute pleasure! All the best!
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j
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- Arts Calling Podcast #18 Paul Myles Zambrano | Film scoring, indie collabs, and fulfilling the musical path
Arts Calling is a podcast to celebrate creatives across disciplines and cultural backgrounds, but also a case for the arts as the gateway to empathy, healthy lives, and strong communities.
Arts Calling now streaming on Apple, Spotify, and wherever else you listen to podcasts, subscribe here! Hi there,
Today I am Arts Calling Paul Myles Zambrano!
About my guest: With a stylistic versatility ranging from hybrid soundscapes to Old Hollywood, Bernard Herrmann inspired scores, Paul Zambrano’s versatility and range makes him constantly in demand to content creators of all kinds.
Since his departure from South Florida, Paul has composed the score to a number of indie films, including Binlowes’ Locker (Dir. Andrew James Mitchell), The Only Way (Dir. Mike Coleman), Timmy’s Playdate (Dir. Rudi Silva), Take Care of Emily (Dir. Nick Rapuano), which is currently experiencing a successful festival run, Life (Dir. Johanna Nystroem), which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018, and, of course Slipping into Darkness (Dir. Alex Ferrufino), which is currently on all HBO platforms. In 2018, Paul won Best Score for his work on The Only Way at the Los Angeles CineFest, and was nominated for Best Score at the Focus International Film Festival for his work on Slipping Into Darkness.
Paul also has released several soundtracks on major streaming platforms, as well as two solo albums. He is also writing for Gothic Storm Music, and Elephant Music, two major music publishers. Along with his writing partner, Ennio Tangocci, the duo are launching a music production house called Age of Symphony, aimed to provide music film TV, film, and advertisements. Currently, Paul is set to release his third independent studio album, titled Death is Beautiful, a concept album with a fictional backstory touching on the subjects of depression, love, anxiety, addiction, and, of course, death.
Stop by Paul’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/PaulZambranoCreations/featured
Paul on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paulzambrano360/
All of Paul’s latest music can be found here: https://solo.to/paulzambrano360
Paul’s Website: https://paulmyleszambrano.com/Thanks for coming on the show, Paul! All the best on your creative endeavors!
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- Arts Calling Podcast #17 Norm Reynolds | Playwriting anecdotes, finding theatre again, and an educator’s life
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Today I am Arts Calling Norm Reynolds!
Norm Reynolds is a Toronto-based playwright and actor. He is adapting Anne Tyler’s “Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant” for the stage. “An October Crisis” is slated for the Toronto Queer Theatre Festival. “Gay Positive” was short-listed for the Short & Sweet Festival (Sydney, Australia). “Two-Hander” played at the inaugural Newmarket National Ten Minute Play Festival. A hit at the first Summerworks Festival (CBC Radio, NOW Magazine), “Put Up Your Hand” was performed by the author in Toronto at the Red SandCastle Theatre. “The Good-bye Play” was staged at the Playwrights of Spring Festival and at TheatreStarts (Aurora, Ontario); it was originally workshopped at the Humber School for Writers with Edward Albee. Reynolds has published short fiction in the United States and Canada, and book reviews in the Canadian national press. He is a thirty year member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada.
Norm’s Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/13LPHCheck out Norm’s work on the
New Play Exchange: https://newplayexchange.org/users/47644/norm-reynolds
The Playwrights Guild of Canada: https://playwrightsguild.ca/paupress/profile/norm-reynolds/view/
Tune in for Craft Bites this February 18th 1pm! https://playwrightsguild.ca/craft-bites-event-page/
Norm’s Blog: https://adaylikealldays.wordpress.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NormReyn
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nreyn21/
Thanks again for your time, Norm. Looking forward to continuing our conversation in the future!!
j
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- Arts Calling Podcast #16 Máire Higgins | Respect for play, acting life, and the immediacy of compassion
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Arts Calling now streaming on Apple, Spotify, and wherever else you listen to podcasts, subscribe here! Last one of the year!
Today I am thrilled to be arts calling my friend Máire Higgins!
Bio: Máire Higgins is a stage and film actor, accredited nationally and abroad. Recent credits include MACBETH (Telluride Theatre), THE WOLVES (BETC), and HOAX (Rum River). Máire holds a Masters of Philosophy in Theatre from Trinity College Dublin, and is based in Telluride, Colorado.
For more information, please visit: http://www.mairehiggins.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capt.miggles/
Thanks so much for chatting with me, Máire! And a happy new year to all!
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- Arts Calling Podcast #15 A.J. Ross | Familiar Monsters, making indie web comics, and Wyoming origin stories
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I’m continuing this end of year sprint by Arts Calling my wonderfully talented friend A.J. Ross! So happy to catch up, have a few laughs, and learn how she is crafting the world of her web comic, Familiar Monsters!
A few words from the author:
My name is A.J. Ross, I am the author and illustrator of Familiar Monsters.
Familiar Monsters is about two childhood friends, torn apart by a werewolf attack. Garrick, an outgoing aspiring musician, is taken and turned by the werewolves. Jon, a pained, loyal friend, takes up with a monster hunter thinking his best friend is dead, becoming a deadly hunter himself. They are accidentally reunited years later when the werewolf Jon is hunting turns out to be his long lost friend. Now they must learn to live with each other, and who they have both become. Navigating through lies, abuse, hidden loves, curses, monsters, and daily life, Jon and Gare hold on the the only thing that they ever had. Each other.Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/familiarmonsters
Instagram: @fullmoongarrick
Website: www.familiar-monsters.com
Thanks for stopping by to share your insights and awesomeness, A.J.!
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j
If you’re a creative in the written, visual, or performing arts, and believe the arts make us and our communities better, I’d love to talk to you! Contact me here. - Arts Calling Podcast #14 Shaine Greenwood | The Aether, writing fiction, and finding online community
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Arts Calling now streaming on Apple, Spotify, and wherever else you listen to podcasts, links to subscribe are here! Hello all!
Happy to be back from the holiday break! Today I’m arts calling Shaine Greenwood!
Shaine Greenwood is a Seattle-based writer, artist, and weirdo. He writes poetry, sci-fi, and literary fiction with a focus on people and what makes them tick. You can find his work here:
youaremuted.comCheck out The Aether, now on Amazon!
Shaine’s poetry collection: Faces, now on sale as well!Thanks so much for taking the time to chat Shaine, all the best in 2022!
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j
If you’re a creative in the written, visual, or performing arts, and believe the arts make us and our communities better, I’d love to talk to you! Contact me here.
- Creative Drive Podcast #71 | Poetry by Lydia Tai
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Hi all!
Today we bring you the work of friend of the show Lydia Tai!
Lydia Tai is a disabled, twenty-eight year old Taiwanese-American poet who writes to channel inner energies, and as a coping mechanism for mental health. Lydia is currently working on a novella called “Schizophrenic Superheroes.”
For more of Lydia’s work, please visit:
http://heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/poetry-by-lydia-tai
https://twitter.com/lydia__tai
https://www.instagram.com/lydia__tai/Follow our reader, Brenda Zamora’s adventures on Instagram!
Thanks for sharing your work with us, Lydia!
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Gather round. Posting journal entries again! And featuring a new musical performance by Cruz+Jonez!
Backyard sunrise 12.15.21. They are a dime-a-dozen in the old west, but this ain’t about the money. Hi there,
I have a journal, I guess I should use it right? I have some last minute goals for December. Sixteen days is more than enough time to chase that arts magic.
- descheveler is my main priority this month. I have 13 good pages and tons of notes. I’m aiming for 45 but I’m pretty sure I know where I’m heading now. Head on over to the descheveler page for the video updates and upcoming music samples…
- Which leads me to the music. Since I got the Arturia MiniLab II earlier this year, I have been working on demos, samples, and other bits of music to figure out the machine. It is a wild ride. It’s a fascinating machine and paired with Ableton, music-making has yielded much needed joy this year. I have incorporated some of these things into my Creative Drive episode production. I have also recorded new music and re-recorded old songs of mine. I have enough for an album. It’s clumsy and far from perfect, but a great building block for the next set of songwriting ideas for 2022. I hope to mix and master these 11-20 tracks and release an album by end of year. We’ll see.
- This last one is a long-shot, but I have been looking at my old film, The Tumble: In Pieces, and I want to touch up a few things and re-release it in black and white. One of my biggest issues on that project were the color correction and the relentless Wyoming wind making cameos left and right. I think I’ve come a long way in sound production in the last seven years, so I hope to make one final pass at this thing and share a polished version. By end of year? Unlikely, but worth pushing for. I can get it done, but I also want to spend time with the fam and sleep before the new year.
I don’t know why I tell you this.
Truth is, these passion projects, these collaborations, this output: They don’t really matter to anyone but me. Maybe they matter a little to my collaborators. Mostly, they matter only to me. I don’t write this to be bleak or induce sadness. I just want you to know that if you are in the arts, if you have a compulsion to make stuff and share your perspective through a creative pursuit, you have to do the best you can with what you have. Sometimes that is just you doing your thing until the audience comes around. Embrace it. Own your commitment to your art. Own your beautiful artistic delusions and turn them into something before they become toxic. Don’t wait for anyone to champion you or wait for the perfect conditions. Nobody gives a shit. And that is wonderfully okay.
One of my favorite song lyrics come from John Lennon’s Nobody Loves You When You’re Down and Out, where he says, “Everybody’s hollerin’ ’bout their own birthday…” I love the defeat in the line. The song indulges in its own dejection and I have been known to be a sad sack. That’s more fun than to the point, but that line stuck with me and eventually inspired The Tumble, my 2014 web series. And now, that sentiment makes more sense than it did back then. Everybody’s hollerin’. About fiercely lived lives, hotshot careers, oversharing in the collective scream called internet. These days, we build up importance and emergency where there is none. We excite easily. We worship productivity and all else (people included) are inconsequential. It’s human nature, I suppose. But the key here (at least for me), is to fixate not on our problems or goals or ambitions, but on the absurdity of the world we live in. I observe that all-encompassing impermanence as a daily mantra and it is so tremendously liberating to me. I now forgo panic and choose clarity. I surrender to time and surrender to the world as is, not how I want it to be. And as Robert Frost would say, about the thing making all the difference or something…
I guess I should tell you where all this comes from: check out this reading. Oliver Burkeman has managed to articulate what I have been feeling all this time. Hearing his work for the first time was an affirmation. It gave me self-belief and a sense of wonder like never before.
And so, whether the audience comes now or later or never, that is not the point anymore. Here in the now, here in the brief time you have, just do this: Make something that is deeply true and driven by how you see the world. Make your art joyfully, and strengthen your magnet. Do so by doing. The connectivity will follow. You don’t need anyone else to begin. Just your wild spirit, and the drive to create. The rest follows. And if some things don’t work out, that’s cool too. When the ashes of our bodies are scattered, they will know we made some real, serious noise, and we did it exactly how we wanted. Embrace a love for the present, and reject futility.
So there you have it: I’m working on intentions versus expectations. I’m not going to beat myself up for what I am creating or how I am going about it. The reality of this whole enterprise is that nothing I make will matter to you more than it will matter to me. Always and forever. And to be honest about that dynamic is an honest and beautiful, liberating thing. I’m taking complete ownership of my life through love and possibility. I know it sounds like it, but I’m not starting a cult. So for the time being, divert your shit-giving from the wells of apathy and move forward with love instead. Perhaps this is too much stoicism or cosmic indifference, but I have never felt this optimistic about life and craft on a weekday.
I wish you the best this month. And I hope whatever you are working brings you joy or solace or something like it.
Talk soon and much love,
j
Also, check out the latest song Dust and I worked on. Good times at Speer Studio!
Check out the track here: https://songwhip.com/cruzandjonez/see-it-through - Arts Calling Podcast #13 Dre Ellis | Prophecy, indie art making, and representation in comics
Arts Calling is a podcast to celebrate creatives across disciplines and cultural backgrounds, but also a case for the arts as the gateway to empathy, healthy lives, and strong communities.
Arts Calling now streaming on Apple, Spotify, and wherever else you listen to podcasts, links to subscribe are here! Hey there!
Today I am arts calling my new Twitter friend Dre Ellis of Prophecy Comics!
D’Andre Ellis is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist from East St.Louis, IL, with years of experience in musical performance & production, screenwriting, and Auteur filmmaking.
Stop by Kickstater to support his latest project, Heavy is the Hand. A comic book series about a black woman who plots revenge w/ a cosmic sledgehammer against a powerful group that destroyed her life.
For more information, visit: https://direct.me/prophecycomics
Thanks for talking with me, Dre! All the best on your creative endeavors!—
Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro at cruzfolio.com. If you like the show, consider reviewing and sharing the podcast, your support truly makes a difference! Check us out for more podcasts about the arts and other stuff too! Make art. Much love,
j
If you’re a creative in the written, visual, or performing arts, and believe the arts make us and our communities better, I’d love to talk to you! Contact me here.
- Arts Calling Podcast #12 Oscar Moreno | Screenwriting, filmmaking on a budget, and redefining border stories
Arts Calling is a podcast to celebrate creatives across disciplines and cultural backgrounds, but also a case for the arts as the gateway to empathy, healthy lives, and strong communities.
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Today I am arts calling Oscar Moreno from InkFilms! A great conversation with an outstanding talent, who is writing and directing films on the US/Mexico border with an incredibly refreshing perspective. A pleasure talking with you, my friend. Te deseo lo mejor en todos tus proyectos!
OSCAR’S BIO: I’m an optioned bilingual Mexican writer and filmmaker from the U.S./Mexico border. My life here has taken me from witnessing the horrors of violence to the joy of seeing its survivors lead happy lives, and experiencing what it’s like to be a musician and to soak up the moments of love and weirdness you can find here. My passion for storytelling has stemmed from filmmaking and impacted different aspects of my life. I’m mainly focused on writing and making the kinds of gritty and mesmerizing thrillers, horror movies and sci-fi that I’d stay up watching late at night as a teenager. But I also love powerful drama and believe all of these flavors can be combined and provide an exciting experience for audiences. These are the stories I love telling and seeing because they most closely resemble what I’ve experienced and witnessed living on the border, and this is what fuels me to bring unique, fresh perspectives to stories about this part of the world or about the kinds of people I’ve met here and can find anywhere. I feel they are necessary now more than ever.
My prose work has appeared in the New York Times, Somos en Escrito, Levadura, The Wire’s Dream Magazine, The Seattle Star and the Rio Grande Review. I am working on different projects with various producers, including Julio Abad of Autumn Leave Films, and Simon Warne and Luc Bégin of Triality World. I’ve had my scripts optioned by the likes of Showdown Productions.
For Oscar’s outstanding work for the page and screen, please visit: https://linktr.ee/inkfilmsinc. Be sure to stop by Oscar’s Twitter as well! @InkFilmsInc89—
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j
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- Creative Drive Podcast #70 | Poetry by Sunday T. Saheed
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Hi there,
Today we feature the work of Sunday T. Saheed!
Sunday T. Saheed is a Nigerian writer and the Chairman of Ogun Hilltop Creative Arts Foundation. His works have appeared in Kalahari Review, Applied Worldwide, and Open Leaf Press Review. Sunday T. Saheed was the 1st runner-up for the Nigeria Prize for Teen Authors 2021. He was also one of the 84 finalists for the WSICE (Wole Soyinka International Cultural Exchange) 2018.
“I write because writing is a medium by which all my pains are suppressed. Art holds healing and mirth with it. I’ll advise people who doubt their writing to never do so, again. Give your writing a voice, let the voice be what will speak for you.” -Sunday T. Saheed
Thanks for sharing your work with us!—
Read and Produced by Jaime Alejandro | Original Music by Cultured Animal
Creative Drive is an international podcast produced by Jaime Alejandro to bring visibility to poets and writers from all walks of life. If you have a sec, please SUBSCRIBE AND REVIEW this labor of love, and don’t forget to tell your writer friends! For more information, visit cruzfolio.com/creative-drive-podcast/ - The Writing Record Podcast 11.19.21 – The Writing Record on hold.
The Writing Record is about unpacking the creative process, gathering inspiration from around the web, and a reminder that our art matters, no matter where we come from! Produced by J. Alejandro.
Subscribe Today! Apple | Spotify | Breaker | RadioPublic | Google | iHeart | Click here PodLink for more links! Hi friends,
It pains me to do this. It pains me to let go of projects I enjoy doing so much, but oftentimes, life is a lot to accommodate and a decision had to be made. I’m cutting down on a few creative things to make sure I can deliver awesome episodes of Arts Calling and Creative Drive! I’ll be sharing behind the scenes updates in another fashion, but for now, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking the time to listen. You really are quite awesome. Make art. Much love,
j
P.S. The episodes aren’t going anywhere though. I will remain an optimist and maybe, if time allows in the future, you may see TWR come back someday!
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- Arts Calling Podcast #11 L. Nicol Cabe | One person shows, new media, and theatre of tomorrow
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This time around, I’m catching up with an amazing theatre artist: Today I’m arts calling L. Nicol Cabe!
ARTIST BIO: I am a new media theatre artist. I create shows inspired by our potential future, using speculative fiction, science fiction, and fantasy tropes. I write and perform scifi story-telling shows, direct new plays, and help playwrights develop their work. Since 2016, I have travelled the world to fringe festivals with my speculative fiction performances. I have won sold out show, critic’s choice, and producer’s choice awards at several festivals over the years. When I perform my futuristic writing, I do so under my production company, Giant Nerd Productions. I am also a dramaturg, director, and writer who focuses on brand new plays. I have worked on innovative shows produced by Annex Theatre, Copious Love Productions, Theater Schmeater, and Taproot Theatre in Seattle, Washington. Currently, I am developing a thesis on new media and pandemic theatre in a Master of Letters program at the University of Glasgow in Scotland (commencing 2021). I am an alumna of Director’s Lab West (Pasadena, 2014), and a summa cum laude graduate of the University of South Carolina (Bachelor’s of Liberal Arts, theatre, 2006).
For updates and more information, visit: http://el-nicol.com.
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j
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- Creative Drive Podcast #69 | Poems by Mark A. Murphy
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Hello!
On this Creative Drive, we bring you the work of Mark A. Murphy!
About the Author: Mark A. Murphy is a working class, Ace poet, living with GAD, and OCD. He has poems forthcoming in Cultural Weekly and Acumen. He has had work published in 18 countries. He is a 3 time Pushcart Nominee, and has published seven books of poetry to date, including, ‘Tin Cat Alley & Other Poems: Not to be Reproduced’ by Venetian Spider Press, 2021. German publisher ‘Moloko Print’ are to publish his latest collection, ‘The Ruin of Eleanor Marx’ in the spring of 2022.
A few words from Mark: I have always thought that poetry can change lives, and still do. I believe artists have a responsibility to step up to the mark, and say the things, others, perhaps less privileged, would like to, or are unable to say. If humanity is to survive the current and impending ecological disaster beyond the next generation, we must learn new ways to live together.
Support Mark here!
https://www.claresongbirdspub.com/featured-authors/mark-a-murphy/
https://waterloopress.co.uk/books/night-wanderers-plea-2019-2/
http://www.molokoplusrecords.de/finder.php?folder=Print&content=75
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tin-Cat-Alley-other-poems/dp/1734946954
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Hi there,
Welcome to Creative Drive! Today we feature poetry by B.I.W. (Beauty in Words)! Please stop by her social media, as I believe her work is fully realized with the visual components and collaborations this artist creates.
Three poems: the Queen’s regime | winter, spring, summer | insects irritation
About the author: b.i.w is the pen name of an upcoming anonymous online poet/writer, sole founder and creator of the instagram page @beauty_in_words._ and built up her following from there. Her content varies from both short and long poems, in both modern and traditional style, illustrated by other artists on the platform. She provides other things related to the field of creation such as books and movie recommendations, as well as reviews. Her poems have been published in several print and online publications, including witchesnpink, Dizzie magazine, Twist in Time Literary Mag, spoken word scratch night and she has been featured and guested on many podcasts such as “Art of Bombing” “Poets Return” and “Mind in the Moon.”
Social Media : Instagram: beauty_in_words._ Facebook: b.i.w poetry Tiktok: beauty_in_words._
Thanks for sharing your work with us!
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- Creative Drive Podcast #67 | Poems by Januário Esteves
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Hi there,
Welcome to Creative Drive! Today we feature poetry by Januário Esteves!
More from the author here: https://www.facebook.com/januarioantonioesteves
About: Januário Esteves was born in Coruche and was raised near Costa da Caparica, Portugal. He graduated in electromechanical installations, uses the pseudonym Januanto and writes poetry since the age of 16. In 1987 he published poems in the Jornal de Letras, and participated over the years in some collective publications. Recently published in the Brazilian magazine Musa Rara, in the American magazine EIGHTEENSEVENTY.POETRY.BLOG, in the Brazilian Revista LiteraLivre, in the Romanian magazine Poesis, in the australian review Otoliths, in the american review BlazeVox, in the american magazine Harbinger Asylum, in the liberian Ducor Review, in the Indian Taj Mahal Review, in the american review The Writing Disorder, in the Brazilian review Acrobata in the Brazilian magazine Mallamargens, in the american magazine JMWWBlog, in the romanian magazine ScarletLeaf Review, in the 4th Literary Competition of the Vieira da Silva Editions, in the Indian magazine LiteraryYard, in the american magazine Spillwords, in the Brazilian magazine Revista entre poetas & poesias, in the American magazine Free Verse Revolution, in the portuguese review Athena, in the brazilian review Arara, in the English magazine Lothlorien Poetry Journal, in the american review Bezine, in the american review Adelaide Literary Magazine, in the American magazine Archive – the collaborative , in the Indian magazine INNSÆI, International Journal of Creative Literature for Peace and Humanity, in the american blog Pondersavant.com, in the american review ACADEMY OF THE HEART AND MIND, in the mauritian the Pangolin Review, in the Indian magazine The Criterion, in the american magazine Dreginald, in the american magazine Fevers of the mind, in the indian magazine Wordweavers, in the american review Starline of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association.
Thanks for sharing your work with us!
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- The Writing Record Podcast 10.29.21 – Soapbox rant on thinking locally, 2 spooky movies, 2 links to inspire
The Writing Record is about unpacking the creative process, gathering inspiration from around the web, and a reminder that our art matters, no matter where we come from! Produced by J. Alejandro.
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Back on track! I’ve been thinking this month of not only spooky things, but how to be more actively in my local creative community. This is when the soapbox comes out, while I desperately watch the words out of my mouth slip down my chin like a river on its way to the delta of clarity.
Anyway, here’s a few things to start writing about:
Turnip Jack-o’-Lanterns Are the Root of All Evil – Atlas Obscura
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/magazine/dorland-v-larson.htmlAnd I saw two scary movies I’m highly recommending:
La Llorona, an outstanding film from Guatemala.
Red Dragon, one of my favorites.Make art. Much love,
j
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- Arts Calling Podcast #10 Billy Higgins | Guiding future collaborators, clowning, and anecdotes of a theatre artist
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Today, I am overjoyed to catch up with a dear friend and outstanding theater artist and educator. I’m Arts Calling Billy Higgins!
About Billy: Currently serving as Artistic Producing Director at Ferndale Repertory Theatre, Billy Higgins (He/They) has worked as a director, producer, actor, devised theatre maker, and circus artist, creating live performance and providing arts leadership throughout the United States and abroad. He serves as a director and teacher on the Movement faculty at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, and is the creator of the Arts Justice work The Constitutional Arts Project. Additionally, Billy has worked in various capacities as a performer, director, and movement designer with The Public Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Turkmen State Circus in partnership with The United States State Department, The Dell’Arte Company, and The Samuel Beckett Center, among others. His work with the Tony Award Winning Broadway Advocacy Coalition as a member of the Artist Impact Team in partnership with Columbia Law School, and Rattestick Playwright’s Theater as a member of the creative team of The Pilot For Restorative Justice directly addressed issues of systemic racism and inequity through the lens of inclusive and accessible theatre. Whenever possible, Billy volunteers with Clowns Without Borders, and enjoys sailing and his dog, Norman. When not onstage or in the ring, Billy can most often be found sailing traditionally rigged tall ships and schooners, which he has served on as a professional mariner for over a decade. He received his M.F.A. from Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theater, M.Ph. from Trinity College, Dublin, B.F.A. from The University of Wyoming, and additional professional certifications in Building Diversity from The University of Pennsylvania.
It was such a pleasure catching up and learning from you, my friend. We didn’t cover everything this time around, but we must do this again sometime! Thanks again and all the best!
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j
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- Creative Drive Podcast #66 | 2 Poems by Seema Prusty
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Hello!
Today we feature the poetry of Seema Prusty!
Seema recently graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering in India, is currently married and settled in Kaust, Saudi Arabia, where her husband works as a Research Scientist. She is working there as well, and they have a young son.
Thank you for trusting the Creative Drive Podcast with your work, Seema! All the best and happy writing!
j
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- Arts Calling Podcast #9 José Casas | State of TYA, social impact through theater, and other Brown Playwright adventures
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Arts Calling now streaming on Apple, Spotify, and wherever else you listen to podcasts, links to subscribe are here! Hello friends!
Today I am thrilled to be Arts Calling the very awesome playwright/compa José Casas! Thanks so much for joining us today with your wisdom, anecdotes, and good cheer! And a shoutout to Alvaro Saar Rios for making this happen! A part 2 episode with José and Alvaro will definitely be happening someday soon!
José Casas is a playwright, director, and Assistant Professor who heads the Playwriting Minor in the Department of Theatre & Drama at the University of Michigan. He has a B.A. in Dramatic Arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a M.A. in Thetre Arts from California State University, Los Angeles, a M.F.A. in Playwriting from Arizona State University, as well graudate work in the Drama and Theatre for Youth and Communities graduate program at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and TYA/USA. He is also a board member of The Children’s Theatre Foundation of America.
His plays, la ofrenda and somebody’s children were recipients of both the Bonderman National Playwriting for Youth Award and the American Alliance of Theatre and Education’s Distinguished Play Award. His book, Palabras del Cielo: An Exploration of Latina/o Theatre for Young Audiences was a recipient of an AATE Distinguished Book Award. His plays include aDoBe, the vine, 14, la ofrenda, Desvelado, a rose grows beyond the wall, jj’s place, a million whispers in the wind, somebody’s children, Pedro y El Lobo, and Flint. His work has been included in a number of anthologies such as The Bully Plays, Ethnodrama: An Anthology of Reality Theatre, and **Theatre for Youth II: More Plays With Mature Themes**. His published work includes la ofrenda, 14, somebody’s children, and **Palabras del Cielo: An Exploration of Latina/o Theatre for Young Audiences**.
He is currently working on Every Great Dream: Visioning African American Theatre for Young Audiences (2022); to be published by Dramatic Publishing.
Check out the production of José’s play, Flint. Available online for FREE!
Visit brownplaywright.com for more information.
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j
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