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1 164. Theodora Ziolkowski | Ghostlit: Myth, memory, and strands of narrative 50:04
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly shoutout: Read the latest literary releases from Punk Noir Magazine! -- Hi there, We're back! Today I am delighted to be arts calling author Theodora Ziolkowski! ( www.theodoraziolkowski.com ) ABOUT OUR GUEST: THEODORA ZIOLKOWSKI is the author of the novella, On the Rocks (2018 & 2020, The University Press of SHSU/Texas Review Press) and the short story chapbook, Mother Tongues (2016 & 2018, The Cupboard). On the Rocks, winner of a 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Award, is now available as an audiobook. Ziolkowski's debut collection of poems, Ghostlit (2025), is now available. Ziolkowski’s work has received support from the Vermont Studio Center, the National Alumni Association (University of Alabama), and Inprint (Houston, Texas). Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in The Writer's Chronicle, Short Fiction (England), and Prairie Schooner, among over sixty other literary journals, magazines, anthologies, and exhibits. In the past, Ziolkowski has served as Poetry Editor for Gulf Coast, Fiction Editor for Big Fiction, and Assistant Poetry Editor for Black Warrior Review. She holds an MFA from the University of Alabama, where she was honored as a ‘30 Under 30’ alum, and a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston, where she was the recipient of the Inprint Marion Barthelme Prize in Creative Writing. Currently, she teaches creative writing as an assistant professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. GHOSTLIT: A new poetry collection, is now available! BOOKSHOP.ORG | BARNES & NOBLE | POWELL'S BOOKS | AMAZON ABOUT GHOSTLIT: Intimate, urgent, and relentlessly inventive, the poems in Ghostlit reflect upon mythology and feminist pop culture and contemporary ideology as they may become embedded in the psyches and even the bodies of their inheritors. Through visceral and sometimes gothic-inspired images, mythological allusions, and the assemblage of strands of narrative, the poems in this collection chart the ways in which manipulative emotional strategies on individual and cultural levels inflict lingering harm upon minds and bodies. Throughout, the poems peel back the layers of what it means for an abuse survivor to reclaim a sense of self—long after the damage has been done. “It turns out that the years I believed myself lucky/were partly responsible for my thinking/there was something deeply wrong with me” could be understood as a refrain for the speaker in Ghostlit or as a shorthand for a cautionary tale about how many survivors may be encouraged to deny the reality of abuse. Thanks for this amazing conversation, Theodora! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro . HOW TO SUPPORT ARTS CALLING: PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING A REVIEW, OR SHARING THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! YOUR SUPPORT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN.…
1 163. Jen Ponton | Sugarcoated, Maiden Mother Crone Premiere, and crafting a solo play 54:35
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly shoutout: Subscribe to Flash Perspectives from author Tommy Dean! -- Hi there, We're back! Today I am delighted to be arts calling writer/performer Jen Ponton! ( jenponton.com ) About our guest: JEN PONTON (writer/performer SUGARCOATED ) returns triumphantly to the New York stage with Sugarcoated, her autobiographical solo show, in its New York premiere. Last seen off-Broadway in Halley Feiffer’s How To Make Friends and then Kill Them (Rattlestick, 2013), Jen has spent the past decade building a vibrant career in film and television. Highlights include Dietland, 30 Rock, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Orange is the New Black, Law & Order: SVU, and Blue Bloods, among many others. Jen also starred in Ash Christian’s Love on the Run alongside Frances Fisher, Annaleigh Ashford, and Steve Howey. She has since appeared in Rebecca Miller’s She Came to Me and Todd Solondz’s Wiener-Dog opposite Greta Gerwig and Kieran Culkin. Off-screen, Jen is a passionate creator. Her works include the storytelling podcast All the Fucks with co-host Lillian Bustle_, a nostalgia-packed puppet sitcom, and her TEDx Talk, “Hollywood’s Fatphobia Problem.” Her collaboration with _Sugarcoated director Tessa Slovis began with Tessa’s film Pizza Party, wherein the two found an immediate connection through their commitment to bold activism through storytelling. Explore more about Sugarcoated at jenponton.com . Maiden Mother Crone: an evening of poignant storytelling as two extraordinary solo shows, THE LONGER MY MOTHER IS DEAD THE MORE I LIKE HER by Deborah Unger and SUGARCOATED by Jen Ponton, take center stage at The Pete at The Flea from February 12–23, 2025. ABOUT SUGARCOATED: Jen Ponton takes audiences on a visceral journey through the polished facade women are often forced to wear. With biting humor and profound vulnerability, Sugarcoated strips away societal expectations, revealing raw truths about trauma, survival, and self-empowerment. Best known for her role on AMC's Dietland , Ponton has made waves in TV, film, and theater. Sugarcoated , which premiered at the Denver Fringe Festival, is a testament to her fearless approach to storytelling and her commitment to exploring the untold narratives of women. MAIDEN MOTHER CRONE plays the following schedule through Sunday, February 23: Preview Performances: February 12 & 13 at 7 PM Opening Night: February 14 at 7 PM February 15 (2 PM & 7 PM, with matinee talkback) February 16 (2 PM) February 19–21 (7 PM) February 22 (2 PM & 7 PM, with matinee talkback) February 23 (2 PM) Tickets are $40 and can be purchased at maidenmothercroneshow.com or in person at the theater ½ hours before the performance. Venue: The Pete at The Flea, 20 Thomas Street, New York, NY 10007 Running Time: 2h15 mins (with intermission) Website: maidenmothercroneshow.com Thanks for this amazing conversation, Jen! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro . HOW TO SUPPORT ARTS CALLING: PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING A REVIEW, OR SHARING THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! YOUR SUPPORT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN.…
1 162. Em J Parsley | You, From Below: a new novella, and environmentalism 43:04
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly shoutout: New classes and projects from friend of the show, playwright Sarah Congress! -- Hi there, We're back! Today I am delighted to be arts calling author Em J Parsley! ( emjparsley.com ) About our guest: Em J Parsley (they/he) is a fiction writer, poet, educator, and environmentalist who received their MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso and makes their home in rural Kentucky with their beautiful devil-cat, Griffin. He is a 2024 Artist-In-Residence at Wormfarm Institute and Art Farm, and their work has been published or is upcoming in Silk Road Review, Screen Door Review, ANMLY, Birdcoat Quarterly, The New Flash Fiction Review, and various other places in print and around the internet. Their poetry chapbook, the anonym gospels, won the 2023 Apogee Poetry Award and is available through April Gloaming Publishing. You can follow him on instagram @emjparsley . You, From Below: Now available from Split/Lip Press ! https://www.splitlippress.com/you-from-below About You, From Below: When an Appalachian holler town is suddenly swallowed into the earth, its sole survivor embarks on a journey up a nearby mountain to get answers. With a mysterious envelope in their pocket that they know they must deliver, the narrator encounters a faceless beekeeper, an undying woman, and a righteous schoolteacher of a town that was raptured overnight while confronting their own past and the death of both the town and people they left behind. Em J Parsley’s You, From Below burrows into the ecological, economic, and emotional state of Central Appalachia to examine its past, present, and the nature of reciprocity through this speculative, introspective, fable-like exploration of collapse and regeneration. Thanks for this amazing conversation, Em J! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro . HOW TO SUPPORT ARTS CALLING: PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING A REVIEW, OR SHARING THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! YOUR SUPPORT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN.…
1 161. Kim Dower | What She Wants: A New Poetry Collection 57:59
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly shoutout: Visit Coalitionist, a new literary project at the coalition! -- Hi there, We're back! Today I am delighted to be arts calling acclaimed poet Kim Dower! kimdowerpoetry.com About our guest: Kim (Freilich) Dower (City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood from October 2016 – October 2018) has published five highly acclaimed collections of poetry all from Red Hen Press. Her most recent book, the bestselling, I WORE THIS DRESS TODAY FOR YOU, MOM, an Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist, was called a “fantastic collection” by The Washington Post, “impressively insightful, thought-provoking, and truly memorable” by The Midwest Book Review and Shelf-Awareness said, “These gorgeous gems are energized by the sheer power of her wit and irreverent style.” AIR KISSING ON MARS, Kim’s first collection, was described by the Los Angeles Times as, “sensual and evocative . . . seamlessly combining humor and heartache.” SLICE OF MOON was called “unexpected and sublime,” by “O” magazine, LAST TRAIN TO THE MISSING PLANET “poems that speak about the grey space between tragedy and tenderness, memory and loss, fragility and perseverance,” said Richard Blanco, and SUNBATHING ON TYRONE POWER'S GRAVE won the 2020 Independent Publishers Book Award Gold Medal for Poetry. Kim’s work has been featured in numerous literary journals including Plume, Ploughshares, Rattle, The James Dickey Review, and Garrison Keillor’s “The Writer’s Almanac,” and her poems are included in several anthologies, notably, Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond. She teaches poetry workshops for Antioch University, UCLA Extension Writer’s Program, and the West Hollywood Library. Born and raised on the Upper West Side of New York City, and a graduate of Emerson College in Boston, Kim is also the proud owner of Kim-from-L.A., long-standing literary publicity company that helps authors around the country get the word out about their wonderful books. WHAT SHE WANTS, now available from Red Hen Press. Purchase your copy today! AVAILABLE ON AMAZON! ALSO AVAILABLE AT BARNES & NOBLE! BOOKSELLER PRAISE FOR ‘WHAT SHE WANTS “Psychologically astute and playfully resolute at evoking the irrevocable desire for love, attraction, seduction and yes, companionship, What She Wants belongs on every bookshelf: not just for poetry lovers. But the poetry is there, singing its echoing delight through the lines, like desire itself, and enticing, resolving, and picturing the myriad ways we are compelled by desire and all its fruits.” —John Evans, Co-Owner Diesel, a Bookstore “Desires, both feral and mundane, are slung across these pages in a crescendo of sexual longing and urgent vitality.” —Amanda Youngman, Manager, Barnes & Noble at The Grove “A fantastic book!” —Suzy Takacs, owner of The Book Cellar Bookstore in Chicago, Illinois “From whispered secrets to consuming obsessions, these poems unveil the complexities of love, longing, and the urgency that prods us to pursue the objects of one’s desire.” —Luisa Smith, Buying Director, Book Passage Bookstore “I love this collection!” —Dan Graham, Book Soup Bookstore “Captures the timeless art of storytelling through verse with raw and unfiltered emotions, lyrical language and vivid imagery. With every turn of the page, readers will find themselves drawn deeper into a world where words hold the power to inspire, delight and transform.”—Julie Slavinsky, Director of Events, Warwick’s Thanks for this amazing conversation, Kim! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro . HOW TO SUPPORT ARTS CALLING: PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING A REVIEW, OR SHARING THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! YOUR SUPPORT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN.…
1 160. Hannah Wyatt | Sunday Cowboy, songwriting, and indie music production 50:34
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly shoutout: Check out new indie artists over at Washingtones Records! -- Hi there, Today I am delighted to be arts calling indie folk singer-songwriter Hannah Wyatt! ( linktr.ee/hannahwyatt ) About our guest: hannah wyatt is an emerging indie folk singer-songwriter. her melancholic sound has blossomed over the years with influence from a score of artists the likes of keaton henson, joe purdy, the civil wars, gregory alan isakov, de-esser, sparklehorse, m. ward, and more. with her roots in upstate new york, hannah began classical violin at eight, and began songwriting around the age of thirteen. she earned her bachelor's degree in music production & recording arts at elon university. her first year at college, hannah was signed as an artist & managed through limelight records. the following year, she redirected her focus as an independent artist & later joined up with NC-based americana/folk band "love & valor" as a violinist, vocalist, graphic designer & recording engineer - touring & performing with the band until 2020. at her core, hannah remains an independent musician, writing, recording & producing all her projects. while her early releases began in 2016 under a former name, she took a step down a new path in 2021 with the release of the album "phantom burn" under the new artist name hannah wyatt, later re-releasing an abridged version of this original album. throughout 2021 in various locations across the country, but mostly central colorado, her ep "iron line" was crafted & later released january of 2022. that following spring, she collaborated remotely with DC-based americana artist e li waltz , the duo released a 5-track EP entitled "waltz & wyatt" & embarked on a west coast tour that summer to promote the release. they have since done a second west coast sprint during the spring of 2024. her following album, "hummingbird" is a 15-track record. with a more experimental, lo-fi tinge, expanding her sound from the somewhat more commercially friendly tracks of her past. the "underground" ep was released in may 2023 and continues along her more lo-fi bedroom sound. this project flirts with being a miniature concept album, dancing around the ideas of human nature during the state of cold war. hannah spends her free time freelancing string arrangements and various recordings for artists both local and far, and collaborates with bellingham label washingtones records. SUNDAY COWBOY: Click here to pre-order a copy of this limited batch run, to secure your record now ! Bandcamp: hannahwyatt.bandcamp.com/music | Check out Hannah's music on YouTube! | Instagram @hannahwyattmusic ABOUT SUNDAY COWBOY: full-length album, "sunday cowboy" will be released digitally december 13, and on PET records on december 21, 2024. these recyclable plastic records are an eco-friendly alternative to traditional PVC vinyl, which leaves a harmful and toxic carbon footprint. her album will be pressed by leading PET companies green vinyl records and good neighbor. Thanks for this amazing conversation, Hannah! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro . HOW TO SUPPORT ARTS CALLING: PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING A REVIEW, OR SHARING THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! YOUR SUPPORT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN. Much love, j artscalling.com/links…
1 159. Jennifer Lang | Landed: A yogi's memoir in pieces and poses 42:18
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly shoutout: Be sure to check out books by Vine Leaves Press! -- Hi there, Today I am delighted to be arts calling author, yogi, and writing teacher Jennifer Lang! ( israelwriterstudio.com/about ) About our guest: Born in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jennifer Lang lives in Tel Aviv, where she runs Israel Writers Studio. Her prize-winning essays appear in Baltimore Review, Under the Sun, Midway Journal, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and served as an Assistant Editor at Brevity. Her first book, Places We Left Behind: a memoir-in-miniature , is followed by Landed: A yogi's memoir in pieces & poses , both with Vine Leaves Press. Places was a Finalist in the Foreword Reviews Book Awards, among others. Both books are available at Vine Leaves Press, Bookshop.org , Barnes & Noble, and other online retailers. Instagram @jenlangwrites | Facebook: @israelwriterstudio LANDED: A YOGI'S MEMOIR IN PIECES AND POSES, now available from Vine Leaves Press! https://vineleavespress.myshopify.com/products/landed-a-yogi-s-memoir-in-pieces-poses-by-jennifer-lang ABOUT LANDED: In experimental chapterettes, American-born Jennifer traces her nonlinear journey—both on and off the yoga mat—reckoning with her adopted country (Israel), midlife hormones (merciless), cross-cultural marriage (to a Frenchman) and their imminent empty nest (a mixed blessing), eventually realizing the words her yoga teachers had been offering for the past twenty-three years: root down into the ground and stay true to yourself. Finally, she understands that home is about who you are, not where you live. Landed: A yogi’s memoir in pieces & poses spans seven years (and then some), each punctuated with chakra wisdom from nationally-acclaimed Rodney Yee, her first teacher. Thanks for this catching up, Jennifer! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro . HOW TO SUPPORT ARTS CALLING: PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING A REVIEW, OR SHARING THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! YOUR SUPPORT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN. Much love, j artscalling.com/links…
1 158. Charles K. Carter | The God of Loneliness: a new poetry collection, vulnerability, and taking your time 49:44
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like Liked*Content Warning: Strong language of a sexual nature a few times. Just a heads up. Weekly shoutout: The Originals Bureau Season 3, now available: Outstanding original scripts! -- Hi there, Today I am delighted to be arts calling poet and educator Charles K. Carter! ckcpoetry.com ABOUT OUR GUEST: Charles K. Carter (they/he) is a queer poet and educator from Iowa who currently lives in Oregon. They share their home with their artist husband and their spoiled pets. He enjoys film, yoga, and live music. Melissa Etheridge is their ultimate obsession. Carter has an MFA in writing from Lindenwood University. He is a volunteer video curator for Button Poetry. Their poems have been featured in a variety of literary journals and anthologies. Carter is the author of several chapbooks including Salem Revisited from WordTech Editions. His debut full-length collection, Read My Lips , was released in 2022 by David Robert Books. To coincide with the release of their most recent chapbook, Artificial Sweetness (Finishing Line Press), Carter created the video podcast series #SundaySweetChats, which can be found on YouTube. Kelsay Books released his second full-length, If the World Were a Quilt , in late 2023. Forthcoming books include The God of Loneliness (Rebel Satori Press, 2024) and Follow This Blood to Find a Dead Thing (Fernwood Press, 2025). THE GOD OF LONELINESS, available from Rebel Satori Press! Also available at Bookshop.org! ABOUT: In The God of Loneliness , Charles K. Carter shares their most vulnerable work yet. While using a variety of poetic forms, Carter tackles the tough intersection of isolation, disconnection, and sexuality. “ The God of Loneliness is a plaintive exploration of loving and being loved when compassion for oneself isn’t a given. Carter’s poems—particularly the ‘…in Dreamland’ ones—embody an undisguised vulnerability that is deeply sympathetic but not overwrought or maudlin. Their heartstrings are not meant to be tugged per se but are offered to the reader to help us feel what we must. This is a delicate achievement that you know Carter hurt—and perhaps hurt mightily—to pull off, and it makes The God of Loneliness a deftly earnest and an unquestionably worthy read.” —Daniel W.K. Lee, author of Anatomy of Want Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Charles! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro . HOW TO SUPPORT ARTS CALLING: PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING A REVIEW, OR SHARING THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! YOUR SUPPORT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN. Much love, j artscalling.com/links…
1 157. Welcome to the Big Dipper: A new musical | A conversation with the creative team 56:14
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedHi there, Today, I am delighted to share this conversation with the exceptional creative team behind Welcome to the Big Dipper, a new musical! The York Theatre Company Presents WELCOME TO THE BIG DIPPER Music and Lyrics by Jimmy Roberts Book by Catherine Filloux and John Daggett Additional Lyrics by John Daggett Inspired by the Play “All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go” by Catherine Filloux DIRECTED BY DEMONE SERAPHIN -- Welcome to the Big Dipper premieres at The York Theatre Company November 21 to December 29: NOVEMBER TICKETS https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/34375 DECEMBER TICKETS https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/34375/1733029200000 ABOUT THE MUSICAL: What defines home, family, and identity? Joan Wilkes confronts these questions when she must sell The Big Dipper Inn, near Niagara Falls in upstate New York, known for its music and African American heritage. She's all set to sign the contract when a blizzard lands a group of Amish folks and a busload of men in dresses on her doorstep. For three days and nights, they wait out the storm. Cultures clash, romance crackles, and Joan struggles for answers, as a houseful of strangers becomes an unexpected community. https://www.welcometothebigdipper.com/ Thanks for this wonderful conversation! Break a leg! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro . Click here for more info: artscalling.com/links HOW TO SUPPORT ARTS CALLING: PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING A REVIEW, OR SHARING THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! YOUR SUPPORT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN. Much love, j…
1 156. Georgia Jeffries | The Younger Girl: Writing historical fiction, and true crime close to home 1:10:23
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly shoutout: New music at Washingtones Records! -- Hi there, Today I am delighted to be arts calling award-winning writer Georgia Jeffries! georgiajeffries.com ABOUT OUR GUEST: Georgia Jeffries is a writer of Emmy Award winning drama and critically acclaimed noir fiction. Honored with multiple Writers Guild Awards, Golden Globes and the Humanitas Prize, her work in film has been praised by the Los Angeles Times as “standing ovation television.” The Los Angeles Review of Books described her short stories in the national anthologies, Odd Partners and The Last Resort, as “firecracker tales” and “domestic tragedy brilliantly segueing into comic farce.” She has also written biographical profiles for HuffPost and UC Press, including “The Last Gun of Tibercio Vasquez,” which can be viewed on the KCET-TV website, Artbound. Born in the Illinois heartland, she worked as a journalist for American Film before writing and producing ground-breaking female-driven dramas, Cagney & Lacey, China Beach and Sisters. Her screenwriting career has been distinguished by extensive field research, from patrolling the mean streets of Rampart with the LAPD to crashing a Vegas bounty hunters’ convention to reporting from a Walter Reed Army Hospital surgical bay, each investigation the basis for one of her many docudramas and series pilots for CBS, ABC, NBC, HBO and Showtime. A cum laude UCLA graduate, Jeffries is a professor at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts where she created the first undergraduate screenwriting thesis program at an American university. THE YOUNGER GIRL, available from Mission Point Press on October 22nd! ABOUT THE YOUNGER GIRL: Based on a true crime, The Younger Girl, (Mission Point Press, October 22, 2024) a debut novel by trailblazing, award-winning writer Georgia Jeffries, combines fiction and supernatural suspense to unravel a thrilling tale of family betrayal and redemption. On March 2, 1933, Chicago tabloids trumpeted the death of 20-year-old "town belle" Aldine Younger: "HEIRESS SLAIN, MARRIED MAN HELD." The son of the mayor of Pontiac, a rich farming community south of Chicago, was convicted of manslaughter. But the dead girl's baby brother, Owen, grew up in a broken family and suspected his beloved sister’s killing was orchestrated by their wealthy uncle. In 1996 Owen is an old man desperate to make peace with the tragedy of Aldine’s death. His daughter, Joanna, takes her still grieving father back home to claim his share of his sister's lost inheritance. Together, they are caught in a dark labyrinth of family betrayal crossing three generations. Owen is found raving during a violent thunderstorm and now believes his daughter is his sister, Aldine, returning to him. Joanna races against time to save her father and unearths damning secrets that threaten her own life. The guilty will be exposed at the psychic bridge linking past, present and future. But at what cost? And who will survive the revelations? “True-crime stories are difficult, and far more so, when the true crime is in your own family. Georgia Jeffries’s triumphant novel tells the story of her aunt Aldine Younger’s killing in 1933—a violent death that has cast a long and complex shadow over the family, the community, and far beyond. Viewing these events through the lens of fiction, Jeffries deploys clear-eyed research and lucid, evocative prose to craft a novel that will haunt long after the book is closed.” —Howard Rodman, novelist/screenwriter Professor, USC School of Cinematic Arts Vice President, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Georgia! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro at the coalition . HOW TO SUPPORT ARTS CALLING: PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING A REVIEW, OR SHARING THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! YOUR SUPPORT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN. Much love, j…
1 155. Sarah Congress | Playwriting, screenwriting, and crafting humor 49:22
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly shoutout: Greater Ghost , a new poetry collection by Christian J. Collier, now available from Four Way Books ( AC22 ) -- Hi there, Today I am so excited to be arts calling playwright Sarah Congress! ( sarahcongress.com ) About our Guest: Sarah Congress is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her play "Melting" was just selected to be produced this October at Siena College for their Climate Justice plays series. She co-wrote the screenplay "I Can't Hear You," which won BEST COMEDY in the 2024 Jersey Shore Film Festival and 2nd place in the APin3 Film Challenge in Asbury Park. Her comedy Overdose won 2nd place for Best Short in the 2023 Downtown Urban Arts Festival at Playwrights Horizons. She teaches playwriting and screenwriting and works part-time for the Dean's Office at Columbia University, School of the Arts. Learn more about Sarah here: https://sarahcongress.com/ Check out Sarah's upcoming playwriting classes! -Saturday, September 21st: "Let's Write a Ten-Minute Play" with the wonderful Hudson Valley Writers Center (virtual): https://writerscenter.org/calendar/play/ -Wednesday, September 25th: "Intuitive Writing Workshop" at Freedom Rocks down the J. Shore (in person): https://freedomrocks.as.me/Intuative-Writing -Tuesday Evenings October 8th-22nd: "Humor Writing" with the fabulous Project Write Now (virtual): https://projectwritenow.org/writers-institute/product/humor-writing/ Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Sarah! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). HOW TO SUPPORT ARTS CALLING: PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING A REVIEW, OR SHARING THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! YOUR SUPPORT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN. Much love, j…
1 154. Nathalie Miranda | Songwriting, resilience, and music for the underdogs 50:24
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly shoutout: Do Not Wish for Any Other Life : A Musical Sequence from the poetry of Richard Jeffrey Newman ( AC128 ) -- Hi there, Today I am so excited to be arts calling singer/songwriter Nathalie Miranda! ( https://linktr.ee/nathaliemirandamusic ) About our Guest: With an arsenal of genre-bending singles under her belt, London-based powerhouse popstar Nathalie Miranda performs straight from the heart. Blending soul, blues and classic rock into high-energy retro pop, Nathalie rocks out with unbridled passion, showcases a stellar octave range, and leaves it all on the stage. Influenced by artists such as Freddie Mercury, Prince, Madonna, Tina Turner, Christina Aguilera and Whitney Houston, as well as music from her Greek-Cypriot roots, Nathalie’s powerful belts and playful lyrics make her distinctive sound even more electrifying. Nathalie’s star continues to rise in 2024. With her smash hits ‘Catch-22’ and ‘Soul on Fire’ hitting 250,000 Spotify streams each, with more than 200,000 YouTube views combined, her unique artistry and shimmering vocals prove she’s the UK’s answer to the US powerhouse divas. She was featured in Wonderland Magazine, Rolling Stone India, previously performed on BBC’s ‘Later... with Jools Holland’ as a backing vocalist, and has headlined iconic London venues like The Troubadour. Born in London to Greek-Cypriot parents, Nathalie speaks fluent Greek and is fiercely proud of her roots - something she loves to incorporate into her music. Authentically homegrown, with a superstar polish, her dramatic 2022 single ‘Χίλια Σημάδια (1000 Scars)’ follows a classic Greek folk rhythm called Zeibekiko and was produced by Greek smash hit producer Harry K. Beyond her spotlight as a solo pop artist, Nathalie has written lyrics and melodies across dance and house music since 2017. Working with international producers who crave her 90s diva vocals, Nathalie has built her reputation as a multi-hyphenate artist free from creative boundaries. She credits her childhood classical piano studies for laying the foundations for her songwriting career - and a hotel karaoke night for unlocking her vocal abilities while on holiday with her family. Nathalie’s dazzling sound is ever-evolving, full of passion, heart, and Greek-Cypriot spirit. Follow Nathalie Miranda for updates and new music: https://linktr.ee/nathaliemirandamusic Nathalie's latest single, U GOT SOUL, is now available! Listen here: https://ditto.fm/u-got-soul Instagram: @nathaliemirandamusic | Threads: @nathaliemirandamusic | YouTube: @nathaliemirandamusic Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Nathalie! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). HOW TO SUPPORT ARTS CALLING: PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING A REVIEW, OR SHARING THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! YOUR SUPPORT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN. Much love, j…
1 153. C.J. Spataro | More Strange Than True, short fiction, and adaptations 55:24
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly shoutout: Check out our friends at My Bad Poetry Podcast! Here's their latest episode. -- Hi there, Today I am so excited to be arts calling author C.J. Spataro! ( https://www.cjspataro.com ) About our Guest: C.J. Spataro is an award-winning short fiction writer whose work has appeared in many literary magazines and anthologies including Taboos & Transgressions, Iron Horse Literary Review, december, Sequestrum, and Exacting Clam. She directs the MFA in Creative Writing and the MA in Publishing programs at Rosemont College and was a founding partner of Philadelphia Stories. Her debut novel, MORE STRANGE THAN TRUE (Sagging Meniscus Press) was recently named to Reactor’s Can’t Miss Indie Speculative Books for Spring. MORE STRANGE THAN TRUE, a new novel, is now available from Sagging Meniscus Press! https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/more_strange_than_true/ Instagram: @cjspataro | Twitter: @cjspataro ABOUT MORE STRANGE THAN TRUE : After an epically shitty day, Jewell Jamieson unknowingly eats a magic-spiked meal and happens also to make a certain wish—and that’s why she awakes the next morning to discover her beloved dog Oberon has been transformed into a beautiful naked man in her bed. Conflict ensues when Titania, the impulsive Queen of the Faeries, decides she wants Oberon for herself. Is Oberon simply a man who used to be a dog, or is he somehow something more? When Jewell discovers the answer, she will be faced with a devastating choice. Will she choose to save the man she’s grown to love by giving him up, or will she honor his wishes and watch him die? Thanks for this wonderful conversation, C.J.! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). HOW TO SUPPORT ARTS CALLING: PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING A REVIEW, OR SHARING THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! YOUR SUPPORT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN. Much love, j…
1 152. Ciara Lawless | Paint My Soul, the songwriting process, and flowers 45:05
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly shoutout: FORGET I TOLD YOU THIS, an award-winning novel by Hilary Zaid, now available! -- Hi there, Today I am so excited to be arts calling singer/songwriter Ciara Lawless! https://linktr.ee/ciaralawless About our Guest: From arranging flowers to arranging music, Irish singer and florist Ciara Lawless, goes from working in her flower shop by day to arranging music by night where she writes and records her own music. The Celtic songbird made her mark on the music industry with her debut single, ‘Half The Man’, in May of 2023. Since then, Ciara has been sharpening her stage skills performing at various festivals including The Mná Festival at Dun na Sí, Co. Westmeath, The Lovestock Festival in Tuamgraney, Co Clare and The Healing Spirit Festival in Co. Cavan. Ciara's music journey began at a young age when she started taking classes in acting and singing. She later developed an interest in classical and opera, training at the Academy of Music in Tullamore, where she also competed in national and international competitions. While some singers cut their chops while climbing the music ladder, Ciara earned her singing stripes as a funeral singer, something that she is very proud and honoured to do. With her debut album out now, Ciara Lawless is poised to become one of the most exciting new artists of 2024 and beyond. Her music deals with deep and meaningful themes while remaining uplifting, leaving a positive impact on the listener. PAINT MY SOUL, Ciara's debut album, is now available! https://linktr.ee/ciaralawless Instagram: @ciaralawlesshq | Twitter: @ CiaraLawlessHQ Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Ciara! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). HOW TO SUPPORT ARTS CALLING: PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING A REVIEW, OR SHARING THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! YOUR SUPPORT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN. Much love, j…
1 151. Kate Brandes | Stone Creek, environmental science, and a sense of place 44:18
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly shoutout: The Ugly Radio is wrapping up season 4, listen asap! https://linktr.ee/theuglyradio -- Hi there, Today I am so excited to be arts calling author Kate Brandes! https://katebrandes.com About our Guest: Kate Brandes lives in the small river town of Riegelsville, Pennsylvania, with her husband and two sons. She writes about and paints rural places and small-town dynamics with underlying environmental themes. Kate has worked as a geologist and environmental scientist for more than twenty years. She currently teaches geology, creative writing and a course on Landscape, Culture and Story of Place at Moravian University, where she also co-directs the Moravian Writers’ Conference. Kate’s first novel, The Promise of Pierson Orchard, was published in 2017. STONE CREEK , a new novel, now available from Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing! BOOKSHOP https://bookshop.org/p/books/stone-creek-kate-brandes/21590727?ean=9781954332522 BARNES & NOBLE https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/stone-creek-kate-brandes/1145904467?ean=9781954332522 AMAZON https://www.amazon.com/Stone-Creek-Kate-Brandes/dp/1954332521 About STONE CREEK: Seventeen years ago, Tilly Stone (age 13) is left to fend for herself in rural Pennsylvania when her infamous eco-terrorist father disappears under mysterious circumstances. Ever since she’s tried to forget the dams they blew up together and forge a new life until her father’s return threatens to upend her small-town world and her friendship with the dogged FBI agent still pursuing him. Ultimately, as the past and present fuse and blow up with more than one kind of casualty, Tilly must choose between the father she loves and her home. Instagram: @kate_brandes | Facebook: @kate.a.brandes Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Kate! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). HOW TO SUPPORT ARTS CALLING: PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING A REVIEW, OR SHARING THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! YOUR SUPPORT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN. Much love, j…
1 150. Andrew Shanks | The Ugly Radio, fringe theater, and indie art as community 59:47
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedHi there, Today I am so excited to be once again arts calling indie creative Andrew Shanks! About our Guest: Andrew Shanks is a part-time dinosaur, part-time theater punk living and working in Seattle, WA. He is the creator and producer of The Ugly Radio, a late night lo-fi sci-fi theater anthology podcast, which has featured over +100 artists and performers over the past four seasons. His plays has been performed in New York, Portland, Los Angeles, North Carolina and various dive bars around the PNW when you get enough drinks in him. See you in the Void. Listen to THE UGLY RADIO here:: https://linktr.ee/theuglyradio Instagram: @theuglyrsdio Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Andrew! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). HOW TO SUPPORT ARTS CALLING: PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING A REVIEW, OR SHARING THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! YOUR SUPPORT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN. Much love, j…
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1 149. Audrey Cefaly | The Last Wide Open, language as conflict, and a play with music 52:10
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly Shoutout: coalitionworks issue 8 , our latest publication is here! -- Hi there, Today I am so excited to be once again arts calling playwright Audrey Cefaly! audreycefaly.com About our Guest: Cefaly is an alumna of the Playwrights' Arena cohort at Arena Stage, a recipient of the Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers Conference, and a Dramatist Guild Foundation Traveling Master. She is published by Concord Theatricals, Smith & Kraus, and Applause Books. Cefaly's plays have been produced by Cincinnati Playhouse, Florida Studio, Florida Rep, City Theatre, Penobscot Theatre, Gulfshore Playhouse, Merrimack Rep, Signature Theatre, Barter Theatre, Vermont Stage, Oregon Contemporary Theatre, 16th Street Theater, Capital Stage, About Face, Kitchen Dog Theatre, Circle Theatre, Theatre Three, Aurora Theatre, Quotidian Theatre Company and University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her play Alabaster received an 11-city Rolling World Premiere, the largest in National New Play Network history. Instagram: @alcefaly Twitter: @alcefaly Her play, The Last Wide Open , is currently running at American Blues Theater through August 18th! Subscribe to her insightful playwriting newsletter, HOW TO PLAYWRIGHT! https://audreycefaly.substack.com/ Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Audrey! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). HOW TO SUPPORT ARTS CALLING: PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING A REVIEW, OR SHARING THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! YOUR SUPPORT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN. Much love, j…
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1 148. SHAME | A Conversation with the Film Team 47:06
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly Shoutout: Chicano Frankenstein , a new novel from Daniel A. Olivas ( AC54 )! *Content Warning: The short film discussed in this episode centers on sexual assault and suicide. -- Hi there, Today I am so excited to be arts calling the cast and crew of SHAME, an awareness-driven short film! FB https://www.facebook.com/ShameTheShortFilm | IG https://www.instagram.com/shametheshortfilm About SHAME, a short film: After a woman is assaulted by a mutual friend, she struggles to communicate with her best friend about what happened, leading to tragic consequences. Sexual assault and suicide are not common topics spoken in households. When we try to, we often get asked the wrong questions like: "What were you thinking going out looking like that? We told you not to go out late. Why did you do that? There's nothing wrong with you. Why are you complaining? Life's hard – so what?" We are making a short film that will bring to light the shame we feel and show the sudden and abrupt nature of suicide when trauma is not dealt with. If you are interested in having a seminar/discussion at your campus, reach out to shametheshortfilm@gmail.com About our guests: Ashna Sharan (Writer/Producer) is an actor-screenwriter based in Los Angeles, CA. Her credits include appearing on HBOMax's hit show, Our Flag Means Death, and on BET's show, Twenties to name a few. Her love for storytelling started when she learned how to dance on stage. During the pandemic, she also produced and wrote her own anthology quarantine web series that won several awards in film festivals and lockdown competitions all over the world. https://www.ashnasharan.com | IG @ashkash009/ Kelly Lynn Warren (Director) is an established director-writer-producer with two award winning short films, 'Manipura' and 'The Dissection of Jack and Jill', as well as a youtube web-series 'Caren with a C-Unmuted'. Originally from Belton, Missouri, Warren has a BFA in Theater / Broadcast & Film from UCM. She has also successfully co-produced two other award winning shorts and has had the pleasure to act in several films and television shows, including HBO’s “Carnivale." https://linktr.ee/kellylynnwarren1313 | IG @kellylynnwarren1313/ Sophia Cofino (Actor) has been a professional working actor in theater, musicals, commercials, voiceover and film for over 25 years. She is most passionate about immersive and devised theatre for social change projects. She regularly can be seen performing with Neo Ensemble Theatre and is an avid participant in the Hollywood Fringe Festival as both an actor, producer, and director. https://linktr.ee/sophiacofino | IG @sophiacofino Ashna, Sophia, and Kelly: Thanks for this wonderful conversation! All the best! Resources: https://rainn.org/about-national-sexual-assault-telephone-hotline https://www.nsvrc.org/survivors https://www.nami.org/your-journey/identity-and-cultural-dimensions/lgbtq/trauma-and-internalized-shame/ -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). HOW TO SUPPORT ARTS CALLING: PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING A REVIEW, OR SHARING THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! YOUR SUPPORT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN. Much love, j…
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1 147. Amanda ReCupido | Writing, producing your own work, and humor through it all 56:55
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly Shoutout: New Poetry Collection from Daniel Damiano ( AC5 ), published by Bottlecap Press! -- Hi there, Today I am so excited to be arts calling writer/producer Amanda ReCupido! ( linktr.ee/amandarecupido ) About our guest: Amanda ReCupido is an author, book reviewer, playwright, storyteller and podcaster whose work has appeared in various humor and literary publications, as well as been recognized in several screenwriting competitions. Follow her online @amandarecupido. All links here: linktr.ee/amandarecupido Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Amanda! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). HOW TO SUPPORT ARTS CALLING: PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING A REVIEW, OR SHARING THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! YOUR SUPPORT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN. Much love, j…
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1 146. Heather Bartel | Exit the Body, mud, and the essay as an offering 49:02
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly Shoutout: Fragile: An Anthology featuring David Scott Hay ( AC114 )! -- Hi there, Today I am so excited to be arts calling author Heather Bartel! ( heatherelizabethbartel.com ) About our guest: Heather Bartel is the author of the essay collection Exit the Body (Split/Lip Press, 2024). Her writing has appeared recently in FENCE, Birdcoat Quarterly, Leavings, Grimoire, and Heavy Feather Review. She is founder and co-editor of the literary journal and community The Champagne Room . Heather lives, writes, and dances in Columbia, Missouri https://www.heatherelizabethbartel.com/ Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Heather! All the best! -- EXIT THE BODY, now available from Split/Lip Press ! https://www.splitlippress.com/exit-the-body In Exit the Body, Heather Bartel makes an offering-as-essay-collection, if a collection of essays can include a tarot reading, a one-act starring dead and dreamed women, conversations with Sylvia Plath through a mirror, and letters to a living ghost. Like journeying through the hallways of a haunted house, Bartel moves through a narrative landscape that shape-shifts, engaging in conversation with the women who haunt her to ask the question at the core of Exit the Body: what to do with an obsession with the mirror when the person in the mirror is either the only person you can trust or the one who is trying to kill you. A dance with illusion and choice, Exit the Body is a meditation on the mind and its place within the body: what escapes, what ruptures, what is created, what echoes, and where we find ourselves on the other side. -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). HOW TO SUPPORT ARTS CALLING: PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING A REVIEW, OR SHARING THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! YOUR SUPPORT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN. Much love, j…
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1 145. Shaine Greenwood | Transfiguration, existentialism, and sci-fi explorations 1:06:51
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly Shoutout: Listen to the latest episode of MyBadPoetry Podcast ! -- *Just a heads up: this episode includes strong language at times. Hi there, Today I am so excited to be arts calling author and game designer Shaine Greenwood! ( shainegreenwood.com ) About our guest: Shaine Greenwood is a Washington State-based author and game designer. His heart is buried in writing outlandish science fiction, gripping dystopian tales, and the occasional slice of literary fiction. He loves satire and social commentary (who doesn’t?) but believes that the foundational elements of a story shouldn’t be sacrificed to convey a deeper message—any story worth its merit must be entertaining at face value while reaching for complexity. When Shaine isn’t taking in the beautiful Washington landscape on a hike or backpacking trip with his lifelong partner, he can be found designing or playing board games with friends and family or tending to his mushroom cultivation hobby—mostly shiitake, lion’s mane, and portobello. Mycelium are one of the most fascinating and diverse living things on Earth, aside from humans. Aside from this collection of short stories, Shaine has written a collection of existentialist poems titled Fires Under the Great Neural Sky . You can find more information about his works, including his art, on his websites: •Writing and art: shainegreenwood.com •Board games: https://otherworld.games Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Shaine! All the best! -- TRANSFIGURATION, now available here: https://books2read.com/u/bp1nnl An alien from Area 51, a manufactured human, a human infused with the power of the sun, death on the terrifying and beautiful edge of space. These fourteen stories take us to the precipice of change, from the physical, mental, and spiritual to the larger and more nebulous moral and societal changes that transfigure us in myriad ways. The winds of change often arrive unexpectedly and with an unpredictable gusto. Throughout our lives, our bodies, minds, and souls evolve in a variety of ways. Sometimes for the better, sometimes not. Regardless, one certainty about change remains: We can’t control how or when it arrives on our doorstep. This collection contains stories of people coming to terms with their mortality and the transition to death. Some meet their fates calmly and are pleasantly surprised, as is the case in Zero Percent—where misfortune falls Khana Lewis, leaving her drifting alone in space—and Ride or Die—where an alien rights activist husband and wife embark on a mission to rescue extraterrestrials from Area 51. Others gasp at their last breaths with fear or regret, like in Progeny—where a scientist throws her accomplished career away to illegally manufacture an evolution of humanity. There are also stories of societal flux and the aftermath of such in Holographic Forefathers—where scientists work to make AI versions of the founding fathers to save the nation—and Patriot—which depicts a hyper-capitalistic globe from the perspectives of those loyal to the almighty dollar and those fighting to overcome it. Others, like Walt Whitman and The Sun and the Shepard, explore the warping of the body and mind into something new and how these changes affect the ever-shifting nature of relationships. How will these characters be redefined under the weight of change? How will they become transfigured? How might you, if in their shoes? -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). HOW TO SUPPORT ARTS CALLING: PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING A REVIEW, OR SHARING THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! YOUR SUPPORT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN. Much love, j…
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1 144. Merrill Joan Gerber | Revelation at the Food Bank, crafting essays, and ruminations on the writing life 57:53
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly Shoutout: Jim Clayton's latest album, LOOK OUT! -- Hi there, Today I am so excited to be arts calling author Merrill J. Gerber! About our guest: Merrill Joan Gerber has written thirty books, including The Kingdom of Brooklyn, winner of the Ribalow Award from Hadassah Magazine, and King of the World, winner of the Pushcart Editors’ Book Award. Her fiction has been published in the New Yorker, the Sewanee Review, the Atlantic, Mademoiselle, and Redbook, and her essays in the American Scholar, Salmagundi, and Commentary. She has won an O. Henry Award, a Best American Essays award, and a Wallace Stegner fiction fellowship to Stanford University. She retired in 2020 after teaching writing at the California Institute of Technology for thirty-two years. Her literary archive is now at the Yale Beinecke Rare Book Library. Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Merrill! All the best! -- REVELATION AT THE FOOD BANK, now available from Sagging Meniscus Press! https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/revelation_at_the_food_bank/ ABOUT REVELATION AT THE FOOD BANK: These powerful essays share critical moments of a writer’s life: scenes from sixty years of passionate married love; suicides faced and suicide contemplated; trauma at the DMV; a night lost searching for a harpsichord in the mountains of Florence, Italy; the tale of a beloved cousin whose plane is shot down by Japanese Zeros; and a precious friendship between two women writers derailed by the poisons of religion and politics. In the titular essay (included in Best American Essays 2023 ) a food bank, assuaging the pandemic’s terrors with gifts of food and prayers, becomes a portal for intimate confidences entrusted to us by a voice of unspoiled authenticity and perennial vigor. NOTICES: “Often hilarious, deeply moving and warmly engaging, Merrill Joan Gerber’s collection of memoirist essays is delightful reading. ‘I have a lot to say from my own mouth’—so Gerber confides in her readers with admirable candor and enviable chutzpah. There is much here that is unnervingly intimate—close-ups of a very long marriage, painful memories of a brother-in-law who was abusive to his family before taking his own life, the disappointments as well as the rewards of an intense friendship with a famous woman writer embittered by religion and politics—all of it narrated in Merrill Joan Gerber’s distinctive voice.” —Joyce Carol Oates, author of Zero-Sum “Written from her deepest truths, these intimate essays can be heartbreaking, maybe because we see ourselves in each of them. But they are told with such humor, such delicacy, that we close the book sighing, Yes, this is life! And this is why Merrill Joan Gerber has been one of my favorites for decades.” —Judy Blume, author of Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret “Uncommonly candid, honest, emotionally precise; irresistibly scrappy, edgy, visceral. Sentence by sentence, one of the best collections of personal essays I’ve read in years.” —Robert Atwan, Series Editor, The Best American Essays " ‘Revelation at the Food Bank’, the essay that anchors Merrill Joan Gerber’s collection, gives voice to the widespread rage of the covid and post-covid era. If Gerber’s anger is universal, her expression of it is wholly her own—brutally honest, transgressive and at times hilarious. The subsequent ten pieces, including a contentious exchange with Cynthia Ozick on the subject of Jewish identity, present in kaleidoscopic form the complexity of her art.” —Joan Givner, author of Playing Sarah Bernhardt “Merrill Gerber’s new collection of essays adds up to a rich record of twentieth-century literary life, largely epistolary, in a period when epistles were epistles, not faxes, emails, texts or DMs. Closer to the present, she addresses the way we live now with a fine blend of pathos and wit, an exact intuition for the telling and well-timed detail, and all the freshness she must have had when she first picked up her stylus long ago.” —Madison Smartt Bell, author of The Witch of Matongé “Merrill Joan Gerber is one of those fortunate writers on whom nothing is lost. Every encounter, every venture into the world leaves deep traces, which she recreates for her readers in exquisitely wry and wise language. Revelation at the Food Bank is rooted in intimacies, and yet touches on universal experience.” —Lynne Sharon Schwartz, author of Truthtelling: Stories, Fables, Glimpses “There are books that can be put together only after the author has turned eighty. Revelation At The Food Bank is one of them. Merrill Gerber’s language—hot, bright, bitter—as applied to marriage and the writing life is the work of one who has nothing to lose. Thus, her memoir is exciting, brutally honest, above all memorable.” —Vivian Gornick, author of Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time “Novelist Gerber ( Beauty and the Breast ) brings together intimate personal essays in this stirring compendium. The hilarious title essay weaves an account of how Gerber found unexpected community at a church’s food pantry (’They give me gifts, they welcome me…. I’m a Jewish girl, but I’ve never known the rewards of religion. Is it too late?’) with reflections on the small annoyances that accumulated over her 62-year marriage (’Why does he put so much cream cheese on his bagel?’)…. Gerber is a witty and astute observer with a keen eye for detail…. Elevated by Gerber’s wry voice and crystalline prose, this impresses.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). HOW TO SUPPORT ARTS CALLING: PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING A REVIEW, OR SHARING THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! YOUR SUPPORT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN. Much love, j…
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1 143. MJ Gomez | A burning planet, faith, and becoming a poet 58:32
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly Shoutout: Listen to SPACEWALKERS FFEEATCOPO this instant! -- Hi there, Today I am so excited to be arts calling poet MJ Gomez! About our guest: MJ Gomez is the author of Love Letters from a Burning Planet (Variant Literature, 2023). His poems are featured in Surging Tide, the Dawn Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, the Selkie, and others. You can find him on Twitter @bluejayverses Thanks for this wonderful conversation, MJ! All the best! -- LOVE LETTERS FROM A BURNING PLANET, now available from Variant Lit ! https://variantlit.com/product/love-letters/ PRAISE FOR LOVE LETTERS FROM A BURNING PLANET: In his scintillating debut, MJ Gomez weighs love against grief, grief against god, and asks: which governs what? Replete with sensuous pauses and lush imagery, Love Letters _unravels pointedly and fearlessly, the way you would at 2 a.m. on a Wednesday, wine-drunk and unable to shake the rumor of a world you once built for someone. —Letitia Jiju, poet and editor for _Psaltery & Lyre From its initial holy invocation of the poet’s name through the course of its burning and urgent trajectory, Love Letters from a Burning Planet sees MJ Gomez detail the intricate inner workings of a “palace of flame” in what can only be described as a triumphant debut. Poignant and deliberate at every turn, Gomez circles the body in an act of poetic ceremony, executed with heart-rending care. At its core, Love Letters reminds us: “[the] truth is we are all immortal except for our bodies.” —NAT RAUM, author of the abyss is staring back MJ Gomez’s love letters from a burning planet crackles with language that sings and singes. “What should become of Man?” Gomez asks, and through self-portraits and studies, love letters and invocations, deftly answers: “a man is a song.” This is a radiant collection of poems that orbits devotion in all its pleasures and pains. Here are poems that bend light to make music. Here is a voice unafraid to speak in a world aflame. —Sarah Ghazal Ali, author of Theophanies Electric, grand, and merciful. With blunt precision, Love Letters from a Burning Planet by MJ Gomez interrogates our human devotions to each other, and to the world. His debut reckons with the expanse of passion, of intimacy, and of love: “Magic doesn’t need to be real. / This body is enough, I swear.” Every poem brings new landscapes of memory to contend with these facts, overflowing with the worldly case of our own dissatisfactions and hopeless desires. Every poem traverses faith: religious, interpersonal, and individual. Gomez writes a universe beautiful and so, so human. “I send to you a flame / like a bullet / repenting.” —Daniel Liu, author of COMRADE -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). HOW TO SUPPORT ARTS CALLING: PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING A REVIEW, OR SHARING THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! YOUR SUPPORT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN. Much love, j…
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1 142. Effy Redman | Saving Face, writing a memoir, and claiming identity 43:57
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly Shoutout: Friend of the show Alvaro Saar Rios on The Scene Podcast, give it a listen! -- Hi there, Today I am so excited to be arts calling author Effy Redman! ( www.effyredman.com ) About our guest: Effy Redman's writing investigates the intersection of disability and identity. She has work published in The New York Times, Vice, Ravishly, Chronogram, Berkeley Poetry Review, and Iron Horse Literary Review, among other places. She holds an MFA in Memoir from CUNY: Hunter College, where she received an Honorable Mention for the Helen Gray Cone Fellowship, and a BA in Literature/Drama from Bennington College, where she was an Ellen Knowles Harcourt Scholar and a Bennington Scholar. effyredman.com . Twitter : @effyredman Facebook: Effy Redman Instagram: @effyredman38 Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Effy! All the best! -- SAVING FACE, now available from Vine Leaves Press ! https://www.vineleavespress.com/saving-face-by-effy-redman.html ABOUT SAVING FACE: What's in a smile? Or the absent smile? Saving Face is Effy Redman's thought-provoking answer. Born with a rare condition of facial paralysis called Moebius Syndrome, Redman's grit and eye for beauty help her survive childhood bullying and adolescent doldrums. Her physical transformation at age thirteen via plastic surgery eviscerates her concept of image, just in time for her and her family to immigrate from hardscrabble Manchester, England to America's disorientingly scenic upstate New York. Not until diagnosis in young adulthood with bipolar disorder does Redman come out of the closet as a lesbian, finally claiming her most inherent identity. Saving Face is a searing personal tribute to anybody who has ever felt like an outsider. This memoir honors the grace of a face that stands out in a crowd, defying societal beauty norms. Disability meets transcendence, suffering becomes hope, and the individual expands into community. The inability to smile, in Redman’s book, lights a window onto the human capacity for redemption. ★★★★★ “ This author goes where no other might dare .” Catherine Filloux, award-winning playwright -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). HOW TO SUPPORT ARTS CALLING: PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING A REVIEW, OR SHARING THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! YOUR SUPPORT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN. Much love, j…
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1 141. Paul Cody | Walk the Dark, writing novels, and hope in the darkness 57:57
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly Shoutout: Cruznotes is back! One email a month to bring you everything happening across the cruzfolio network, join Jaime's newsletter here: cruzfolio.com/cruznotes . -- Hi there, Today I am so excited to be arts calling author Paul Cody! ( paulcodywriter.com ) About our guest: Paul Cody was born in Newton, Massachusetts, graduated from Newton North High School and from the University of Massachusetts at Boston, magna cum laude, With Distinction in English, and Senior Honors in Creative Writing. He worked at the Perkins School for the Blind for three years, and earned an M.F.A. from Cornell University, where he was twice co-winner of the Arthur Lynn Prize in Fiction. He has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Saltonstall Foundation, and was awarded a Stegner Fellowship by Stanford University (declined). He has worked as a housepainter, teacher, editor and journalist, was associate editor and staff writer at Cornell Magazine , where he twice won CASE awards for articles; and has taught at Cornell, Ithaca College, Hobart and William Smith Colleges and the Colgate Writing Seminars, and in Auburn Prison. His published novels include The Stolen Child (Baskerville, 1995), Eyes Like Mine (Baskerville, 1996), So Far Gone (Picador USA, 1998), Shooting the Heart (Viking, 2004), Love Is Both Wave and Particle (Roaring Brook, 2017), Sphyxia (Fomite, 2020) as well as a memoir, The Last Next Time (Irving Place Editions, 2013). His work has appeared in various periodicals, including Harper’s, Epoch, The Quarterly, Story , the Boston Globe Magazine , and Cornell Magazine , and he has appeared on Voice of America as a Critic’s Choice. He lives with his wife in Ithaca, New York. Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Paul! All the best! -- WALK THE DARK available May 27th from Regal House Publishing ! https://regal-house-publishing.mybigcommerce.com/walk-the-dark ABOUT WALK THE DARK: Oliver Curtin grows up in a nocturnal world with a mother who is a sex worker and drug addict, and whose love is real yet increasingly unreliable. His narration alternates between that troubled childhood and the present of the novel, where he is serving the last months of a thirty-years-to-life sentence in a maximum-security prison in upstate New York for a crime he committed at age seventeen. His hope for redemption is closely allied with his memories, seen with growing clarity and courage. If he can remember, then life in the larger world might be possible for him. Praise for Walk the Dark "Paul Cody’s Walk the Dark is creepily beautiful, full of stillness and darkness. Cody takes us into places we don’t know and shows us strange states of mind that feel absolutely true. It’s both soothing and terrifying being in Oliver’s mind, because he sees such beauty but also feels forever separated from it. For decades now I’ve seen Paul Cody’s work as the ultimate cross between horror and literary fiction, taking us deeper into the weird American night than anyone in either camp. Walk the Dark is a continuation of that same world we know from Cody’s The Stolen Child and So Far Gone , both of which are great, terrifying novels." - Stewart O’Nan, author of Last Night at the Lobster , Emily, Alone ; and Wish You Were Here "Walk the Dark is harrowing and vivid, taut as a wire. Paul Cody intertwines terror and hope; he knows how to hook his readers from the start -- and on every page. Keep the lights burning when you open this spell-binding book." - Julie Schumacher, author of Dear Committee Members -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). HOW TO SUPPORT ARTS CALLING: PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING A REVIEW, OR SHARING THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! YOUR SUPPORT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN. Much love, j…
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1 140. David Winner | Master Lovers, writing a fictional memoir, and personal vs historical 44:59
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly Shoutout: Cruznotes is back! One email a month to bring you everything happening across the cruzfolio network, join Jaime's newsletter here: cruzfolio.com/cruznotes . -- Hi there, Today I am so excited to be arts calling author David Winner! ( david-winner.com ) About our guest: David Winner is the author of three novels, Enemy Combatant, Tyler’s Last and The Cannibal of Guadalajara , winner of the 2009 Gival Press Novel Award and nominated for the National Book Award. His work has appeared in The Village Voice, Fiction, The Iowa Review, The Millions, The Kenyon Review and other publications in the U.S. and the U.K. He is the fiction editor of The American (www.theamericanmag. com), a monthly magazine based in Rome, a senior editor at Statorec magazine and a regular contributor to The Brooklyn Rail . Most recently, he is the co-editor of Writing the Virus: Work from Statorec magazine. Learn more at david-winner.com Thanks for this wonderful conversation, David! All the best! -- MASTER LOVERS is now available from Outpost 19 ! https://bookshop.org/p/books/master-lovers-david-winner/20232214?ean=9781944853884 ABOUT MASTER LOVERS: While clearing out his great aunt's midtown apartment after her death, author David Winner discovered artifacts of her storied existence: notes from opera stars, love letters and artifacts from the Middle East of the 1930’s. His Aunt Dorle Soria had been a co-founder of Angel Records and a prominent figure in the mid-century classical music world. But the more he learned about her world, the more complicated her story became, a twisted puzzle full of love and fascism, a record of a young woman grappling with her attraction to lovers with hair-raising political ties. A powerful work of family discovery, rooted in a bygone Midtown Manhattan and involving artists and politicians from around the world. BOOKLIFE STARRED REVIEW! "An engrossing story about the life and times of a singular woman who lived life to the fullest... A fascinating 'fictional memoir' memoir of a trailblazing great aunt and her mysteries." KIRKUS RAVES! "A fascinating blend of the personal and the historical, and a provocative comment on the ways in which both resist interpretive finality." Full reviews and advance praise from Ann Beattie, Clifford Thompson and Sean O'Driscoll. -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). HOW TO SUPPORT ARTS CALLING: PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING A REVIEW, OR SHARING THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! YOUR SUPPORT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN. Much love, j…
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1 139. Lee Upton | Tabitha, Get Up: a comic novel, biographers, and playing with forms 51:45
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly Shoutout: Cruznotes is back! One email a month to bring you everything happening across the cruzfolio network, join Jaime's secret newsletter here: cruzfolio.com/cruznotes . -- Hi there, Today I am so excited to be arts calling author Lee Upton! ( www.leeupton.com ) About our guest: Lee Upton’s comic novel Tabitha, Get Up is forthcoming in May 2024. Another novel, a literary mystery, will be out in May 2025. Her books include her seventh collection of poetry, The Day Every Day Is (Saturnalia Books 2023), two short story collections, a novella, four books of literary criticism, and an essay collection. Her poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, and Southern Review, as well as three editions of Best American Poetry. She is the recipient of the Pushcart Prize, the National Poetry Series Award, Poetry Society of America awards, the Miami University Novella Prize, the Open Book Award, the Saturnalia Book Prize, and other honors. www.leeupton.com Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Lee! All the best! -- TABITHA, GET UP is forthcoming May 22nd, 2024 from Sagging Meniscus Press , is now available for pre-order: https://bookshop.org/p/books/tabitha-get-up-lee-upton/21257767 ABOUT TABITHA, GET UP: Tabitha is a lonely fifty-year-old biographer who, in order to restore her self-respect and pay her rent, attempts to write two biographies simultaneously: one about an actor so famous his face is on the side of buses, and the other about a popular writer of children’s books recently outed as an author of erotic fiction. Is Tabitha ready to deal with interviewing an actor so handsome and charismatic she thinks he should be bottled and sprayed on belligerent people as a form of crowd control? Can she form a genuine friendship with a cult novelist who pressures her to compromise her values? While facing these and other challenges, Tabitha is bedeviled by memories of her long-ago divorce and the terrible wedding when, accidentally bumped on a balcony, she shot off into the shrubbery. Is it true, she wonders, that there’s probably a dead body beneath the floating rot of any marriage? When surrounded by pretentious beautiful people does it help to imagine their intestines are full of worms? Are champagne bubbles the devil’s air pockets? Is it ever too late to change your life—from the bottom up? NOTICES: “For starters, Lee Upton’s novel Tabitha, Get Up is funny—really, really funny. On top of that, narrator Tabitha’s clumsy, desperate, charming search for human connection—not to mention a paying gig—is also a serious look at whether it’s possible to bluff and hustle a life together. You’re going to love this book.” —David Ebenbach, author of The Guy We Didn’t Invite to the Orgy “ Tabitha, Get Up is another remarkable book by the irrepressible Lee Upton, a novel that might remind you of the work of some of our finest living comic novelists—Elizabeth McCracken, Jincy Willett, Elizabeth McKenzie—but in the end is a book only Upton herself could have written. Its protagonist, Tabitha, is a glorious piece of work: a biographer with a feverish mind and a long list of antagonists and an indomitable spirit and an unforgettable voice and major money problems. I wouldn’t want anyone to live her life, but I very much want everyone to read her book. It’s Lee Upton’s best, funniest, and most ingenious work of fiction yet. Which is to say, it’s the best, funniest, most ingenious work of fiction you’ll read this year, and most other years, too.” —Brock Clarke, author of Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe? and I, Grape “There is no form of the novel. The novel has no form. The novel takes no form. The novel takes forms. It is a voracious form, the novel. Tabitha, Get Up , Lee Upton’s comely new novel, presents as a series of exquisite “Notes,” and thus a “Notebook,” a book of Notes , to self, to random others, to you who finds them. A compendium of memorandums makes up the meat of the matter, a tender texture to the text, marginalia that has been turned outside in, has migrated edgily into the heart of the heart. Formally the form is perfectly organic to this novel new novel, parts being greater than the sum of the whole, this map more detailed than the thing it represents, this round-up of resuscitation, reconstitution, and reply. Riding herd, Upton wrangles a novel that writes itself and rights itself. —Michael Martone, author of Plain Air: Sketches from Winesburg, Indiana “Tabitha lives! In Tabitha, Get Up , Lee Upton has created an ebullient, witty, slightly nutty, and totally lovable character whose distinctive voice will stay with you long after you’ve closed the book. Smart, funny, crazy in the best sense, and a total joy!” —Iris Smyles, author of Droll Tales Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). HOW TO SUPPORT ARTS CALLING: PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING A REVIEW, OR SHARING THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! YOUR SUPPORT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN. MUCH LOVE, j…
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1 138. C.M. Crockford | Birdsongs, farewell to punk, and responding with resilience 55:56
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly Shoutout: cruzfolio.com/now ! -- Hi there, Today I am so excited to be arts calling writer and editor C.M. Crockford! ( www.cmcrockford.net ) About our guest: C.M. Crockford is the author of the full-length collection Birdsongs (Alien Buddha Press, 2024) as well as two chapbooks, Mark The Place (Thirty West Publishing, 2020) and Adore (Iron Lung Press, 2018). His essays, poetry, and fiction have been featured in The Cleveland Review of Books, Abducted Cow Magazine, CineSPEAK Journal, Vastarien, Serotonin Poetry, and Vast Chasm Magazine among many others. He also co-hosted The Barn: A Podcast About The Shield alongside Mason Maguire. Otherwise, Crockford reads crime fiction, collects punk badges and stim toys, and lives in Philadelphia with his cat Wally. Socials: https://www.instagram.com/cm_crockford/ https://twitter.com/cm_crockford BIRDSONGS, now available from Alien Buddha Press: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CV5X9RCB/ ABOUT BIRDSONGS: "Birdsongs: Poems 2020-2023" by C.M. Crockford is a mesmerizing collection that transcends the boundaries of language to immerse readers in a kaleidoscope of emotions. Crockford's evocative verses paint vibrant landscapes where desire, resilience, and nostalgia take flight like free-spirited birds. From the raw intensity of "Animal" to the reflective echoes of "Winter's Visit," this book invites you on a poetic journey through the intricate melodies of life. With each poem, Crockford unveils a world where nature, love, and societal reflections blend seamlessly, creating a symphony of words that resonate long after the final verse. "Birdsongs" is an enchanting testament to the power of poetry, capturing the essence of existence with a grace that is both timeless and profoundly relevant. In Birdsongs, C.M. Crockford gives us poems that take flight—but expect turbulence. This collection soars through sweaty basements, punk bars, and the harsh realities of contemporary life. With accessible language and animalistic passion, readers will find that these poems “hum hungry energy” and trill with biting candor. —Adam Gianforcaro, author of Every Living Day (Thirty West Publishing House, 2023) Thanks for this wonderful conversation, C.M.! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). If you like the show: leave a review, or share it with someone who's starting their creative journey! Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent. Much love, j…
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1 137. Court Ludwick | These Strange Bodies, Broken Antler Mag, and hybrid forms 50:48
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly Shoutout: My Bad Poetry Podcast ! -- Hi there, Today I am so excited to be arts calling Court Ludwick! ( www.courtlud.com ). About our guest: Court Ludwick is the author of These Strange Bodies (ELJ Editions, 2024) and the founding editor-in-chief of Broken Antler Magazine. Her writing has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize, and can be found in Denver Quarterly, Stonecoast Review, Necessary Fiction, Oxford Magazine, Full House Literary, West Trade Review, and elsewhere. Court’s art has shown at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, and she has visual work forthcoming in Zaum Magazine, Bleating Thing Magazine, and body fluids. She is the recipient of a 2024 Sioux Falls Arts Council Artist Grant, and she has taught workshops on hybrid writing and experimental form, most recently for The Dakota Writing Project and Vermillion Literacy Project. Court has an MA from Texas Tech University and is a current PhD student at the University of South Dakota, where she teaches literature and composition. Find Court on socials @courtludwick. Find more of Court’s writing and art on www.courtlud.com . Socials: https://www.instagram.com/courtludwick https://twitter.com/courtludwick https://www.brokenantlermag.com THESE STRANGE BODIES, A memoir-in-fragments, is forthcoming from ELJ Editions in September 2024: https://elj-editions.com/these-strange-bodies About THESE STRANGE BODIES: Court Ludwick’s These Strange Bodies is an intimate account of two tumultuous years and a clarifying dissection of how the female body exists in public and social spaces that are rooted in gendered and sexual violence. Composed of essays, prose poems, and the occasional experiment, this memoir-in-fragments navigates sexual assault, a mother’s arrest, a panic disorder diagnosis, a breakup, a stream of new lovers, a flirtation with stimulant drugs, and the ups and downs of trying to let it all go. As the collection grapples with memory’s fragmentary nature, past and present collide on the page. And as Ludwick charts the difficulty of filling in the gaps, threads blending cultural critique, human anatomy, poetry, and personal narrative expose the strange acts historically forced on bodies, the estrangement one can experience from their body, and the strangeness that is felt when trying to find a way through all this chaos, through all this strange. Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Court! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). If you like the show: leave a review, or share it with someone who's starting their creative journey! Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent. Much love, j…
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1 136. Maria C. Palmer and Ruthie Robbins | On the Rocks: Co-authoring, patience, and collaboration 59:24
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly Shoutout: Maria C. Palmer Arts Calling Episode 109 ! Hi there, Today I am so excited to be arts calling co-authors Maria C. Palmer & Ruthie Robbins! About our guests: Maria Costanzo Palmer is an author and grant writer. Growing up as the oldest child of an award-winning restaurateur, Maria unexpectedly became a daughter of the incarcerated. This experience ignited an interest in working for Get on the Bus, a nonprofit dedicated to uniting children with their incarcerated parents. A former host on L.A. Talk Radio, Maria was recently featured on Food and Beverage Magazine Live and has made a number of media appearances. You can find Maria on FB and IG @joecostanzoprimadonna and on Twitter @mariacpalmer . For more information, visit www.mariacpalmer.com . Ruthie Robbins is an award-winning educator who worked for the Montour School District in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, PA, and for Johns Hopkins University Talent Development Secondary. Ruthie grew up in "The Rocks" but now teaches English Language Arts and music in Buffalo, New York. Best known as co-creator of a popular interdisciplinary unit for Pittsburgh's Kennywood Park, Ruthie is currently working on other books and is preparing to launch The Writing Factory Online, a comprehensive writing program for middle schools. On the Rocks, now available: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C678ZVSV Linktree: https://linktr.ee/mariacpalmer Maria and Ruthie: Thanks for this wonderful conversation! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). If you like the show: leave a review, or share it with someone who's starting their creative journey! Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent. Much love, j…
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1 135. Heather G. Marshall | When the Ocean Flies: Fiction vs memoir, mindfulness, and writing beyond trauma 51:03
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly Shoutout: Arcade Bookshop Podcast ! What did you think of the episode? Send Jaime a message! Hi there, Today I am excited to be arts calling author and coach Heather G. Marshall! (heathergmarshall.com ) About our Guest: Heather G. Marshall is an adoptee, author, speaker, teacher, coach, and traveler. Her short fiction has been published in a variety of journals, including Black Middens: New Writing Scotland, and Quarried, an anthology of the best of three decades of Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel. Her first novel, The Thorn Tree, released in 2014 (MP Publishing). Her TED talk, “Letting Go of Expectations,” centers around her adoption and reunion. Originally from Scotland, Heather is currently based in Massachusetts. heathergmarshall.com WHEN THE OCEAN FLIES, now available from Vine Leaves Press ! https://bookshop.org/p/books/when-the-ocean-flies-heather-g-marshall/20885419 About WHEN THE OCEAN FLIES: An email from a stranger tells Alison Earley that her natural father, whom she has known for only six years, has died suddenly. What begins as a short trip back to Scotland for a funeral soon becomes a journey that puts adoption, sexuality, and identity on a collision course as Alison finds herself caught between the life and family she has so carefully constructed on one continent and the family from which she was taken on another. Shunned by her father's family, reunited with her natural mother, and reconnected with a long-lost love, Alison finds herself trying to shepherd her youngest child towards college while questioning everything she thought she knew about herself. When her natural mother uncovers a series of letters written to Alison from the grandmother she never knew, resurrecting the stories of generations of women-stories long buried by patriarchal rule-Alison realizes that she must find the courage to face and reveal the secrets of her own past. At what cost, though? And who and what will be left in the aftermath? When the Ocean Flies explores the pain of separation and abuse, and the power of love to heal even over huge gaps in time and geographical distance. Letting Go of Expectations, Heather's Ted Talk, now available here: https://heathergmarshall.com/books-and-writing/letting-go-of-expectations/ Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Heather! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). If you like the show: leave a review, or share it with someone who's starting their creative journey! Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent. Much love, j https://artscalling.com…
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1 134. Sam Chue | Naegle Fowleri, Washingtones Records, and a music community 46:28
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly Shoutout: Arcade Bookshop Podcast ! What did you think of the episode? Send Jaime a message! Hi there, Today I am excited to be arts calling singer/songwriter Sam Chue! washingtonesrecords.com About our Guest: Sam Chue, local outsider singer-songwriter plays a mix of his newest songs and a few tunes from the past. He has been playing original music in Bellingham and out of his car throughout the i-90 corridor since 2007 and he brings a refreshing spin to the folk genre. Naegle Fowleri (IG @naeglefowleri ) is the bassist and sometimes singer of the virtual band, howling brave . Listen to the episode to learn more about this mystery. Washingtones Records is a Bellingham, Washington-based independent record label that goes the extra mile to empower artists that deserve a bigger audience. Sam Chue and Tim Mechling started Washingtones out of necessity. After a few releases of their own, they discovered a serious and surprising lack of music reviews, features, representation and media for independent artists. We’re dedicated to bringing physical and digital media to the northwest of the northwest. Independent music deserves your undivided attention. We always fight for the underdog. Instagram: @washingtonesrecords | Facebook: @washingtonesrecords | YouTube: @WashingtonesRecords | TikTok @washingtonesrecords Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Sam! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). If you like the show: leave a review, or share it with someone who's starting their creative journey! Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent. Much love, j https://artscalling.com…
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1 133. Tyler C. Gore | My Life of Crime: Essay as memoir, exploding appendixes, and other entertainments 48:36
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly Shoutout: 2024 Jaime Updates ! What did you think of the episode? Send Jaime a message! Hi there, Today I am excited to be arts calling author Tyler C. Gore! https://tylergore.com About our Guest: Tyler C. Gore is the author of My Life of Crime: Essays and Other Entertainments , shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize. My Life of Crime was also a First Horizon Award Finalist, and appeared in the Independent Book Review’s list of “Impressive Indie Books of 2022.” Tyler has been cited five times as a Notable Essayist by The Best American Essays annual anthology and is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship for Creative Writing. For many years, he served as art director of Literal Latte , and currently serves on the editorial boards of Exacting Clam and StatORec. His essays, stories, and reviews have appeared in many of the fine, high-quality journals preferred by discerning readers like you. He lives, as he dreams, in Brooklyn. Twitter: @TylerCGore | Insta: @tylermustwashhands MY LIFE OF CRIME: ESSAYS AND OTHER ENTERTAINMENTS, now available from Sagging Meniscus Press! https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/my_life_of_crime/ About MY LIFE OF CRIME: An awkward visit to a nude beach. A bike-pedaling angel careening through rush-hour traffic. The mystery of a sandwich found in a bathroom stall. A lyric, rainy-day ramble through the East Village. With the personal essays (and three other entertainments) in this debut collection, Tyler C. Gore reveals the artistic secrets of his life of crime: a charming wit, compassionate observation, perfection of style, and, over all, a winsomely colorful light tinged with just enough despair. Whether stewing over a subway encounter with a deranged businessman, confessing his sordid past as a prankster, or recounting his family’s history of hoarding, Gore is by turns melancholy, profound and hilarious. The collection culminates with the novella-length essay “Appendix,” a twisted, sprawling account of routine surgery that grapples with evolution, mortality, strangely attractive doctors, simulated universes, and an anorexic cat. My Life of Crime conjures up from the flotsam of an individual life something uncannily majestic: an insomniac contemplation of life in our eternal, twenty-four-hour New York City, infused throughout with its grit, humanity, unexpected romance, and the poignant intimacy of all the lives joined together within it. Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Tyler! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). If you like the show: leave a review, or share it with someone who's starting their creative journey! Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent. Much love, j https://artscalling.com…
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1 132. Hilary Zaid | Forget I Told You This, writing a techno-thriller, and handmade magic 52:31
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly Shoutout: Nighthawks Podcast ! Like the podcast? Thoughts/concerns? Jaime would love to hear from you, send him a message! Hi there, Today I am excited to be arts calling author Hilary Zaid! hilaryzaid.com About our Guest: Hilary Zaid has been a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, a James D. Houston Fellow at the Community of Writers and two-time attendee of Tin House Writers' Workshop. Her work has appeared in Mother Jones, Ecotone, Day One, The Southwest Review, and The Utne Reader and elsewhere. Long-listed for the 2018 Northern California Independent Booksellers' Award for Fiction, her novel Paper is White is a 2018 Foreword Indies silver medalist and the winner of the 2018 Independent Publishers' Book Awards (IPPY) in LGBT+ Fiction. Her novel Forget I Told You This (Zero Street Fiction), is the inaugural winner of the Barbara DiBernard Award. Hilary holds an AB in English from Harvard and a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley. Hilary has mentored aspiring writers through AWP's Writer-to-Writer Mentor program, the Golden Crown Literary Society and as a volunteer mentor and mentor-coordinator of the College Essay Mentors in the Oakland Unified School District, an equity program offering high school seniors from under-served communities. Twitter: @hilaryzaid | Insta: @ hilary_zaid/ FORGET I TOLD YOU THIS, now available from Zero Street Fiction! https://www.hilaryzaid.com/forget-i-told-you-this.html About Forget I Told You This: Amy Black, a queer single mother and an aspiring artist in love with calligraphy, dreams of a coveted artist’s residency at the world’s largest social media company, Q. One ink-black October night, when the power is out in the hills of Oakland, California, a stranger asks Amy to transcribe a love letter for him. When the stranger suddenly disappears, Amy’s search for the letter’s recipient leads her straight to Q and the most beautiful illuminated manuscript she has ever seen, the Codex Argentus, hidden away in Q’s Library of Books That Don’t Exist—and to a group of data privacy vigilantes who want her to burn Q to the ground. Amy’s curiosity becomes her salvation, as she’s drawn closer and closer to the secret societies and crackpot philosophers that haunt the city’s abandoned warehouses and defunct train depots. All of it leads to an opportunity of a lifetime: an artist’s residency deep in the holographic halls of Q headquarters. It’s a dream come true—so long as she follows Q’s rules. Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Hilary! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). If you like the show: leave a review, or share it with someone who's starting their creative journey! Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent. Much love, j https://artscalling.com…
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1 131. Kate Brandt | Hope for the Worst, 1980s NYC, and a spiritual journey 46:53
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly Shoutout: Nighthawks Podcast ! Like the podcast? Thoughts/concerns? Jaime would love to hear from you, send him a message! -- Hi there, Today I am excited to be arts calling writer and educator Kate Brandt! https://katebrandt.net About our Guest: Kate Brandt is a graduate of the MFA Writing program at Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has appeared in literary anthologies, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Literary Mama, Ginosko, and Redivider, among other publications. Hope for the Worst, her first novel, is informed by her experiences with Tibetan Buddhism, magic, self-delusion, desire, despair, and healing, as well as her travels through Europe, Africa, and Asia. Kate is also a teacher and teacher trainer in adult literacy in New York City. In this role, she is privileged to work with a community of smart, dedicated educators in service to adult students who, despite difficult circumstances, continue to pursue an education in the hope of improving their lives. Twitter: @kbrandtwriter | Insta: @kbrandtwriter HOPE FOR THE WORST, now available from Vine Leaves Press! https://www.vineleavespress.com/hope-for-the-worst-by-kate-brandt.html About Hope for the Worst: At twenty-seven, Ellie Adkins doesn’t have all that much going for her–a dead-end job at a New York City nonprofit; a boyfriend who has left her; distant and divorced parents. But it is the suffering caused by Calvin, her Buddhist teacher, that she can’t get past. A year ago, Calvin seduced her, and his Buddhist teachings became her world. Now, he has dropped her, and Ellie struggles to reconcile his teachings—the idea that nothing has inherent reality; that the way to salvation is through abandonment of the self–with the intense pain in her heart. Ellie’s devotion to Calvin will lead her to undertake an expedition to Tibet on his behalf; there, injured and in danger on a solo trek, she will have to choose between devotion and her own life. Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Kate! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). If you like the show: leave a review, or share it with someone who's starting their creative journey! Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent. Much love, j https://artscalling.com…
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1 130. Wendy Bashant | The Same Bright Moon, teaching in China, and writing a memoir 53:17
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly Shoutout: Nighthawks Podcast ! Like the podcast? Thoughts/concerns? Jaime would love to hear from you, send him a message! -- Hi there, Today I am excited to be arts calling writer and educator Wendy Bashant! About our Guest: Wendy Bashant taught and served as a dean and professor of English for thirty years at schools as diverse as UC-San Diego, Coe College, New College of Florida, Eastman School of Music, and California Western School of Law. Her writing includes scholarly articles, book chapters, poetry, and travel articles. She was a finalist for both the Peter Taylor Prize for Literature and the Gival Press Novel Award. Her memoir, The Same Bright Moon, was a 2023 New York Book Festival winner. A graduate of Middlebury College (BA) and the University of Rochester (Ph.D.), she currently lives in San Diego with her husband and two cats. She teaches adult literacy through the public library system and volunteers at the San Diego Zoo. She also plays the harp and tries to practice her Mandarin with as much regularity and discipline as she can muster. Insta: @wbashant1 Twitter: @BashantWendy THE SAME BRIGHT MOON, now available! https://www.amazon.com/Same-Bright-Moon-Teaching-Generation/dp/B0CDNM82VZ About THE SAME BRIGHT MOON: In 2019, Wendy Bashant, a burned-out college dean, quits her job to teach two hundred students in the ancient, walled city of Xi’an, China. The year turns extraordinary when tensions between China and the U.S. escalate: first tit-for-tat tariffs; then a worldwide pandemic; finally lockdowns, closed consulates, and expelled journalists. All the while, accusations are lobbed back and forth like flaming arrows launched over the Pacific. Against this background of aggression, Wendy tries to teach a class in American culture. Instead, her students describe the realities of growing up in an emerging global power. Through their experiences and compelling perspectives, the students debate various issues, such as environmentalism, gender, healthcare and political conflict. The Same Bright Moon is a collaborative memoir highlighting the stories of these students through their assignments, discussions and poetry at the height of Covid-19. Their vibrant voices will challenge, inspire, and bring hope for the future. Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Wendy! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). If you like the show: leave a review, or share it with someone who's starting their creative journey! Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent. Much love, j https://artscalling.com…
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1 129. Kamal X | Black Astronaut, photography, and capturing American turmoil 48:06
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly Shoutout: Hey Playwright! Like the podcast? Thoughts/concerns? Jaime would love to hear from you, send him a message! -- Hi there, Today I am excited to be arts calling photographer Kamal X!! ( www.iamkamalx.com ) About Kamal, in his own words: I am Kamal X, a professional photographer who has been documenting my travels throughout the world since 2015. Photography found me at a time in my life when I felt confused and voiceless. I wasn’t sure of where I was internally and what direction I wanted my life to go. I welcomed my challenges and I found myself drawn to creating images that evoke emotions rooted in the many universal elements of the human experience. My goal is to tell stories from all walks of life and give a raw voice to the world we live in, through compassion and honesty. BLACK ASTRONAUT, now available for purchase here: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Astronaut-Kamal-X/dp/1908211938/ Insta: https://www.instagram.com/iamkamalx About BLACK ASTRONAUT: THE STARS BELONG TO THE PEOPLE Join award-winning photographer Kamal X on his epic search for beauty through a divided America. Black Astronaut is an extraordinary collection of powerful images that tell the stories of the everyday people behind the sensationalized headlines, a nuanced representation of the new Black America. Living, loving and fighting for a better world in difficult times. Open your heart to this electrifying collection of images, as Kamal X uses his camera to explore America after George Floyd, Covid-19, and Trump by finding beauty, humanity, and hope in the rage of a people under fire. Black Astronaut serves as a raw opportunity to re-evaluate one’s own intersection with the ongoing shifts in society that bring renewed threats to communities against a background framed by the unequal impact of economic volatility. This book is about looking at the recent past to try to find a direction for the near future. Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Kamal! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). If you like the show: leave a review, or share it with someone who's starting their creative journey! Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent. Much love, j https://artscalling.com…
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1 128. Richard Jeffrey Newman | The Return! And T'shuvah: a new poetry collection 1:07:03
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly Shoutout: Switchyard Podcast ! Comments and suggestions welcome: Send Jaime a message! -- Hi there, Today I am excited to be arts calling poet Richard Jeffrey Newman for a second appearance on the podcast!! ( richardjnewman.com ) About: Richard Jeffrey Newman is the author of Words for What Those Men Have Done (Guernica Editions 2017) and The Silence of Men (CavanKerry Press 2006), as well as the translation, The Teller of Tales: Stories from Ferdowsi’s Shahameh (Junction Press 2011). He curates the First Tuesdays reading series and is Professor of English at Nassau Community College. His latest poetry collection, T'shuvah, is now available from Fernwood Press! https://www.fernwoodpress.com/2023/09/07/tshuvah/ Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/richardjnewman Microblog: https://richnewman.micro.blog/ Thanks for returning a second time, Richard, such a pleasure to catch up! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). If you like the show: leave a review, or share it with someone who's starting their creative journey! Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent. Much love, j https://artscalling.com…
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1 127. John Yamrus | 24 Poems, honest writing, and a poet's life 41:41
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly Shoutout: The First Draft Club: A podcast from Mary Adkins! Comments and suggestions welcome: Send Jaime a message! -- Hi there, Today I am excited to be arts calling poet John Yamrus! About: In a career spanning more than 50 years as a working writer, John Yamrus has published 35 books (29 volumes of poetry, 2 novels, 3 volumes of non-fiction and a children’s book). He has also had nearly 3,000 poems published in magazines and anthologies around the world. A number of his books and poems are taught in college and university courses. He is widely considered to be a master of minimalism and the neo-noir in modern poetry. His latest books are TWENTY FOUR POEMS and SELECTED POEMS: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT. A volume of his SELECTED POEMS was recently published in Albania and TWENTY FOUR POEMS is due out in translation later this year. 24 Poems, now available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BRCC2LTW Thanks for this delightful conversation, John! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). If you like the show: leave a review, or share it with someone who's starting their creative journey! Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent. Much love, j https://artscalling.com…
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1 126. BV Wolfgang | The Spacewalkers FFEEATCOPO, existentialism, and hopeful songs 56:06
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly Shoutout: Liars and Leeches - A Supernatural Horror Audio Drama ! Comments and suggestions welcome: Send Jaime a message! -- Hi there, Today I am excited to be arts calling musician and existential creative BV Wolfgang of The Spacewalkers FFEEATCOPO! About: Welcome to The Spacewalkers Foundation for Extraterrestrial Exploration and the Circumvention of Planned Obsolescence. Founded by BV Wolfgang and an ever-growing staff of dreamers, inventors, scientists, and artists, the Foundation aims to infinitely extend consciousness through art, philosophy, technology, and an impressive amount of Hologram Dogs™ Listen to the latest tracks here: linktr.ee/thespacewalkers Read the Spacewalkers Substack! https://spacewalkers.substack.com Follow on Instagram: @thespacewalkers Thanks for this delightful conversation, BV! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). If you like the show: leave a review, or share it with someone who's starting their creative journey! Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent. Much love, j https://artscalling.com…
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1 125. Anne Leigh Parrish | A Summer Morning, interconnected works, and creative sustainability 48:40
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedComments and suggestions welcome: Send Jaime a message! -- Hi there, Today I am excited to be arts calling novelist and poet Anne Leigh Parrish! About our guest: Anne Leigh is the author of twelve books with her latest poetry collection, If The Sky Won’t Have Me , published in April 2023 by Unsolicited Press. Her next novel, A Summer Morning , arrives in October 2023, also from Unsolicited Press. She lives in Olympia, Washington. A SUMMER MORNING, now available for from Unsolicited Press! https://www.anneleighparrish.com/a-summer-morning/ Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Anne! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). If you like the show: leave a review, or share it with someone who's starting their creative journey! Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent. Much love, j https://artscalling.com…
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1 124. Arts Calling Q&A with Jaime Alejandro and Shahab Zargari 46:31
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedHi there, We're trying something different today: Today I'm thrilled to bring you an Arts Calling Q&A! Friend of the show Shahab Zargari stops by to help me process the first 100 episodes of the podcast and some lessons along the way. Hope you enjoy!! About our Guest: Shahab Zargari is an award-winning Iranian-American filmmaker and administrative faculty member of the UNLV College of Fine Arts. After years of creating original short-form streaming content, Shahab made his directorial debut with the Philip K. Dick adaptation, THE CRYSTAL CRYPT (2013), an official selection at the San Diego Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival. He continued to hone his craft, creating original films, music videos, and a multitude of commissioned works. Shahab’s short films MY NAME IS ART (2018) and OH, THE GUILT (2021) garnered a dozen awards from a variety of prestigious festivals, including official selection to Amazon’s inaugural All Voices Film Festival, a digital festival celebrating underrepresented communities. Currently, the Docu-Dance short ‘ The UNLV Shoah Project ‘ is making rounds in the film festival circuit. You can view all of his creative output on his Vimeo and Youtube accounts. THE CRYSTAL CRYPT 10 year anniversary art book is now available here! https://www.blurb.com/b/11639745-the-crystal-crypt-film-art-book Thanks for making this happen, Shahab! All the best! Mentioned in the episode: https://www.instagram.com/inspiredtowrite -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). Like the show? Tell your creative friends, leave a review, or send me an email here . Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent. Much love, j artscalling.com…
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1 123. Jim Clayton | Round II: Look Out, a new album! 1:12:04
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly shoutout: My Bad Poetry Podcast ! Comments and suggestions welcome: Send Jaime a message! -- Hi there, Today I am excited to be arts calling musician Jim Clayton! ( jimclaytonjazz.com ) About our guest: DownBeat Magazine called Jim Clayton’s music “ warm, happy, and soulful. ” He calls it a blend of bebop and New Orleans, the city he considers a second home. His repertoire is a mix of jazz standards, reimagined pop classics, and his own memorable writing. Jim’s last two albums, Lenny Jumps In (2016) and Songs My Daughter Knows (2014) landed on the jazz radio charts in both Canada and the USA. He won three national awards with recording act The Clayton/Scott Group, and his music has been heard internationally on radio, in film, and on television (including Dateline NBC, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, and MTV). Jim spent a decade as a music director with acclaimed theatre company The Second City, entertaining audiences around the globe, from ex-pats in Asia to our troops in Bosnia. He began streaming nightly performances at the start of the pandemic; after over 750 online shows, Jim garnered 30,000 new online followers. LOOK OUT, A NEW ALBUM OUT OCTOBER 3RD: https://jimclaytonjazz.com Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Jim! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). If you like the show: leave a review, or share it with someone who's starting their creative journey! Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent. Much love, j https://artscalling.com…
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1 122. Anna Dickson James | Boys Buy Me Drinks to Watch Me Fall Down: A new collection! 46:51
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly shoutout: A Word? Hosted by Kellie Scott-Reed, from Roi Fain éa nt Press! *Some episodes of arts calling may feature strong language or discuss difficult subjects. Comments and suggestions welcome: Send Jaime a message! -- Hi there, Today I am excited to be arts calling writer and educator Anna Dickson James! ( whiskeytit.com/authors/anna-dickson-james ) About our guest: Anna Dickson James earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte, NC and teaches English at Garrett College in Deep Creek, Maryland. Her work has appeared in Anthology of Appalachian Writers, she was a two-time finalist for the West Virginia Fiction Prize, and has won numerous awards from WV Writers, Inc. Writing these stories helped her understand a time in her life when she gave up much of her personal power, and the compilation of this collection was an avenue for helping her to reclaim it. Twitter: @annabanana57 BOYS BUY ME DRINKS TO MAKE ME FALL DOWN, now available from Whiskey Tit! https://whiskeytit.com/product/boys-buy-me-drinks-to-watch-me-fall-down/ Boys Buy Me Drinks to Watch Me Fall Down is the quietly opened vein that every literate woman is hiding with a strategically positioned clutch or behind sleeves not quite right for the weather. These are not your everyday stories of resilience — while the heart may be laid bare, the women here don’t have time to hit the fainting couch with their trauma. No. The women here are too sharp for that. And too busy. They’re busy carrying worlds on their shoulders; they’re busy with sex (and equally busy when the sex is great and when it’s not); they’re busy being messy and complicated and generally busy with the business of existence, with making sure you don’t see that vein. As for author Anna Dickson James? She’s busy exploring the many delicate and thoroughly original ways to let you see it anyway. Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Anna! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). If you like the show: leave a review, or share it with someone who's starting their creative journey! Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent. Much love, j https://artscalling.com…
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1 121. Elizabeth M. Castillo | Not Quite an Ocean, multilingual poetry, and different things 56:02
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWeekly shoutout: switchyardtulsa.com Hi there, Today I am excited to be arts calling poet Elizabeth M. Castillo! ( elizabethmcastillo.net ) About our guest: Elizabeth M Castillo is a multilingual poet, writer, teacher and a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. She lives in Paris with her family and two cats, where she writes a variety of different things, in a variety of different languages, and under a variety of pen names. Elizabeth is committed to promoting the indie arts, especially from women creators, and has a particular soft spot for women of colour who are also neurodivergent, much like herself. She’s found writing and creativity to be central to her own well-being and mental health, and is always keen to accompany other artists on their journey to developing their own authentic creative practice. In her writing Elizabeth explores the different countries and cultures she grew up with, as well as themes of race & ethnicity, motherhood, womanhood, language, love, loss and grief, and a touch of magical realism. Her writing has been featured in publications and anthologies in the UK, US, Australia, Mexico and the Middle East. Her bilingual, debut collection “ Cajoncito: Poems on Love, Loss, y Otras Locuras ” is for sale on Amazon, and her debut chapbook "Not Quite an Ocean" is on available now from Nine Pens Press . You can connect with her on Twitter @ EMCWritesPoetry and IG as EMCWritesPoetry , or on her website. NOT QUITE AN OCEAN, now available from Nine Pens Press! https://www.amazon.com/dp/1739151747 'Not Quite an Ocean' by Elizabeth M. Castillo is a paean to the feminine, to motherhood and to the natural world. At once these poems are both unabashed in their celebration of womanhood, and are searing in their unflinching confrontation with darker undercurrents that threaten to break and destroy. The poems in 'Not Quite an Ocean' are beacons, are rallying calls, and are ultimately a roars of strength, pride and hope that cannot be silenced or subdued: To be woman is to be everything All things bound together and, if you can manage it that little bit more. Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Elizabeth! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). If you like the show: leave a review, or share it with someone who's starting their creative journey! Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent. Much love, j https://artscalling.com…
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1 120. Catherine Shields | The Shape of Normal: Parenting, disabilities, and self-discovery 46:14
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedHi there, Today I am excited to be arts calling wonderful writer Catherine (Cathy) Shields! ( www.cathyshieldswriter.com ) About our guest: Catherine (Cathy) Shields writes about parenting, disabilities, and self-discovery. She is a retired educator with an M.S. Ed in Exceptional Education. Her experience includes networking and dealing with children and families of persons with disabilities. Cathy and her husband reside in Miami, Florida, where they raised three grown daughters. They kayak, ride bikes, hike in the Everglades, and visit the two grandchildren who live nearby. THE SHAPE OF NORMAL, coming from VINE LEAVES PRESS November 2023! https://www.vineleavespress.com/the-shape-of-normal-by-catherine-shields.html The Shape of Normal: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability and Embracing a Different Kind of Perfect opens with a scene in my twenty-eight-year-old daughter’s empty bedroom. Jessica, my grown-up child, graduated from Sesame Street to YouTube, collecting teen magazines, playing her music at ear-splitting volumes, and singing the lyrics to all the top-ten songs. I reminisce about the years spent struggling with unresolved feelings, my ableism, and my fear of how the world perceived Jessica. She is the hero of this story. “My daughter was never broken. I was. And I was never on a hero’s journey to save her I was the one who needed saving.” Thanks for this remarkable conversation, Cathy! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro ( cruzfolio.com ). If you like the show: leave a review, or share it with someone who's starting their creative journey! Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent. Much love, j https://artscalling.com…
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