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

Christopher Marlowe, 1564-1593.By MING Studios

Djuna Barnes, 1892-1982By MING Studios

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, 1475-1564.By MING Studios

O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) 1862-1910.By MING Studios

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

Mercedes de Acosta, 1892-1968.By MING Studios

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

Three Angsty Poets, Rebecca Evans, Tomas Baiza, and Christian Winn, gathered together to chat initially about poetry, but the conversation turned, and they found themselves invigorated, inspired, and mostly miffed at the world, the gods, the past, the future. Here is the first in their series of angsty thoughts: My Angst on Your Perception, where t…

Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1892-1950.By MING Studios

Calvin Pineda is a playwright, archivist, and songwriter from Kuna, Idaho, with an eye towards the whimsical, pedestrian, and spiritual. They have studied at The College Of Western Idaho, The Eugene O’Neill National Theater Institute, and Bard College. They are a theological seminary graduate, and a three-time attendee of the American Numismatic As…

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

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

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

Porphyro In Akron by Hart Crane, 1921.By MING Studios

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

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta is an award-winning writer and writing teacher and a mother of two. With a PhD on the intersections between fairy tales and autobiography, as well as a seven-year streak of writing weekly poems for strangers, she teaches writing for Oxford Department for Continuing Education and for Harvard Extension School, where she won th…

Daniel Toney trained at East 15 Acting School in 2018/2019 and studied for three years at the University of Exeter. His first appearance was as a Musical Director and Co-Composer for the original musical Unicorns Are Red which debuted at Exeter’s Barnfield Theatre. He also co-founded the theatre company, Stage Noir, with his fellow East 15ers and p…

Poems by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Christina Rosetti, Emily Bronte, and Elizabeth Jennings, read by Rebecca Evans. Rebecca Evans writes the difficult, the heart-full, the guidebooks for survivors. Her debut memoir in verse, Tangled by Blood, bridges motherhood and betrayal, untangling wounds and restorying what it means to be a mother. She’s a …

Frederick Douglass 1818-1895By MING Studios

An excerpt from Song of Myself by Walt Whitman, read by Christy Claymore. Christy Claymore (she/her) is a writer, researcher, freelance editor, and part-time English professor. She is an emerging poet whose work has been included in the previous five anthologies published by The Cabin, as well as in "The Panorama Project," a pandemic arts segment u…

Vassilis Kritikos was born in Athens in 1954. He studied electrical engineering and headed an IT company for 33 years. From a young age, having lived and loved the cultural movement of the decade preceding the dictatorship in Greece in 1967, he became interested in music, theater, and cinema. He has been involved in photography for over forty years…

Susan Lasater is a writer, poet, and painter. She earned a BA in Visual Arts from Boise State University. Her work explores the nature of invisible disability through visual representations of pain and healing. She writes about her rare conditions, the travels for treatment across the country, and the antics of living with another artist and their …

Jodeen Revere is a long time Boise actor and performer. She has worked with Boise Contemporary Theater, Migration Theory, Alley Rep and Homegrown Theater. She does commercials, voice overs, radio spots and a variety of independent films. Her first reading at Ming in 2019 became the springboard for her solo show The Persistent Guest, which has gone …

Rebecca Evans writes the difficult, the heart-full, the guidebooks for survivors. Her debut memoir in verse, Tangled by Blood, bridges motherhood and betrayal, untangling wounds and restorying what it means to be a mother. She’s a memoirist, essayist, and poet, infusing her love of empowerment with craft. She teaches high school teens in the Juvie …

Calvin Pineda makes music, poetry, and theater with an eye towards the whimsical, pedestrian, and spiritual. They are from Boise, Idaho, and have studied at The College Of Western Idaho, The Eugene O’Neill National Theater Institute, and Bard College. They are a theological seminary graduate, and a three-time attendee of the American Numismatic Ass…

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta is the author of thirteen books, including Edit Your Life and The Creative Year: 52 Workshops for Writers. She holds literature degrees from Harvard, Georgetown, and the University of Texas at Austin. She wrote her Ph.D. dissertation on the intersections between memoir and myth, a concept that informs her teaching and writin…

Ring Out, Wild Bells, from In Memoriam by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1850.By MING Studios

Rebecca Evans writes the difficult, the heart-full, the guidebooks for survivors. Her debut memoir in verse, Tangled by Blood, bridges motherhood and betrayal, untangling wounds and restorying what it means to be a mother. She’s a memoirist, essayist, and poet, infusing her love of empowerment with craft. She teaches high school teens in the Juvie …

Yazmín Yadira Novelo Montejo received her Master in Sociolinguistics from Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia. She is a graduate in Social Communication from Autonomous University of Yucatán, Mérida, México and formed in Revitalization of Native Languages and Identities from the University of Mondragón in the Basque Country. Previou…

Wormwood and Nightshade by Adam Lindsay Gordon 1833-1870.By MING Studios

Tango recordings from the early 1920s by Alberto Arenas, Enrique Delfino and Armand Vecsey.By MING Studios

Acapella music from the early twentieth century.By MING Studios

Calvin Pineda makes music, poetry, and theater with an eye towards the whimsical, pedestrian, and spiritual. They are from Boise, Idaho, and have studied at The College Of Western Idaho, The Eugene O’Neill National Theater Institute, and Bard College. They are a theological seminary graduate, and a three-time attendee of the American Numismatic Ass…

Pius Akumbu is a senior researcher at Langage, Langues et Cultures d’Afrique (LLACAN), a research unit of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and INaLCO University that specializes in the study of the languages and cultures of Africa. Before joining LLACAN, Pius was a Visiting Professor at the University of Missouri, Columbia.…

Eastern European Roma music recorded in 1917 by Columbia Records.By MING Studios

Excerpt from Frankenstein, by Mary Shelly, published in 1818.By MING Studios

Lasca, by Frank Desprez, read by Harry Humphreys and recorded in 1919 for Edison Records.By MING Studios

Recitation of Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling recorded in 1919 for Victor Records.By MING Studios

Readings by poet Edgar A. Guest recorded for Victor Records in 1919.By MING Studios

Heidi Kraay is a playwright and writer across disciplines. Her work examines the connection between brain and body, seeking empathy with fractured characters. She pulls myth, metaphor and monsters together to attempt connections across difference. Her plays, including Unwind: Hindsight is 2020, see in the dark, How to Hide Your Monster, New Eden, M…

The Owl And The Grasshopper, from The Aesop For Children, Illustrated by Milo Winter, 1919. https://www.loc.gov/item/19014083/By MING Studios

The Wolf And The Kid, from The Aesop For Children, Illustrated by Milo Winter, 1919. https://www.loc.gov/item/19014083/By MING Studios

The Peacock, from The Aesop For Children, 1919. https://www.loc.gov/item/19014083/By MING Studios

Love songs recorded in 1917 by Victor Records.By MING Studios

Matt Bunk is an Idaho artist blending folk Americana roots with kabbalistic mysticism. His work is structured around loops, both of language and ambient sound. As a poet, Matt's work roams from page to stage - where he often performs poetry alongside devised theater or music. His other projects include the band All Around Cowboy, the found-sound ca…

Rebecca is a memoirist, poet and essayist. Her work reflects, among many things, fractured relationships. This fracturing influences every subsequent relationship––carrying scars and wounds throughout one's life. Evans weaves disability, domestic violence, and a fight for survival throughout her narratives, hoping to start conversations, create awa…

Tomas Baiza is the author of the novel, Delivery: A Pocho’s Accidental Guide to College, Love, and Pizza Delivery (Running Wild Press, 2023), and the collection A Purpose to Our Savagery (RIZE Press, 2023). Tomás’s work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Best of the Net, and Best American Short Stories anthologies and has appeared in va…

Tomas Baiza is the author of the novel, Delivery: A Pocho’s Accidental Guide to College, Love, and Pizza Delivery (Running Wild Press, 2023), and the collection A Purpose to Our Savagery (RIZE Press, 2023). Tomás’s work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Best of the Net, and Best American Short Stories anthologies and has appeared in va…

Ace Zappa is a multi-disciplinary artist inspired to explore interesting stories. Ace is based in Garden City Idaho, in the Live Work Create District, where she uses reclaimed and re-purposed materials to create original work. She was awarded a residency at Surel’s Place in 2022 and currently has an installation on display at the Green Box. To lear…