CALDER CITY, MICHIGANWritten and narrated by Monet Marcel by Delray

Set on the west side of Grand Rapids, Calder City, Michigan is a linked collection of stories shaped by memory, labor, longing, addiction, class, and the emotional weather of the Midwest. Across these stories, neighborhood becomes witness. Streets hold history. Ordinary people carry private grief, hard-earned tenderness, and the residue of survival.

Narrated by the author, this audiobook brings the collection into an intimate register, where each story feels remembered aloud rather than merely read. The voice carries the texture of place, turning Grand Rapids into more than setting. It becomes archive, monument, and living pressure system.

This is literary fiction rooted in working-class life, regional memory, and the beauty and burden of paying attention.

Full novel PDF:https://pdflink.to/caldercity/

Synopsis

Calder City, Michigan is a powerful collection of linked stories set on the west side of Grand Rapids. Through lives marked by struggle, desire, family, faith, memory, and endurance, the audiobook builds a vivid portrait of a community too often overlooked and too deeply lived to be forgotten. Read by Monet Marcel by Delray, these stories transform the city into living testimony, where each piece stands alone while contributing to a larger emotional map of place, identity, and survival. Intimate, lyrical, and sharply observant, Calder City, Michigan is a listening experience grounded in the hard beauty of the Midwest.

PDF link:https://pdflink.to/caldercity/

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Show Notes

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Episode Title: Caught: TOME / Poetry

In this episode of MDNTMRKTVOX, the voice turns toward capture: what it means to be caught by language, by memory, by structure, by self-invention, and by the lingering pressure of time. Moving through poetry as both artifact and active wound, this episode explores the TOME as method, body, archive, and refusal.

What emerges is not a neat reading, but a charged meditation on writing as containment and release. The poem, or the tome, becomes a site where memory hardens, fractures, and reanimates. Language does not simply describe experience here. It traps it, distills it, tests it, and sometimes frees it by force.

This episode continues the larger MDNTMRKT investigation into voice, ritual, criticism, silence, theatrical movement, and the burden of reflection after midnight. If you’ve ever wondered what happens when poetry stops trying to be pretty and starts functioning like evidence, this one sits in that fire.

In this episode

Poetry as archive, pressure, and living residue

The TOME as structure rather than object

Voice under compression

Memory as both witness and distortion

Language as trap, instrument, and release

Midnight thought as method

Tone / Keywords

poetry, criticism, archive, memory, performance, language, structure, theory, midnight, voice

Pull Quote

“Poetry is not decoration here. It is the record left behind when pressure learns how to speak.”

Another Pull Quote

“The tome is not a book alone. It is a body of thought forced to survive its own conditions.”

Podcast Description Blurb

MDNTMRKTVOX is a literary and reflective audio series from MDNTMRKT, moving through poetry, essays, performance, theory, and the after-hours pressure of thought. This episode, Caught: TOME / Poetry, considers what language holds, what it distorts, and what still survives the act of being written down.

Hashtags

#MDNTMRKTVOX #PoetryPodcast #LiteraryPodcast #SpokenWord #CriticalTheory #WritingLife #PoetryCommunity #ExperimentalWriting #MidnightMarket #MonetMarcel

Short version for Spotify / Apple Podcasts

In Caught: TOME / Poetry, MDNTMRKTVOX explores poetry as archive, pressure, and living evidence. A meditation on language, memory, structure, and the strange afterlife of voice under strain.

Longer platform-ready version

In this episode of MDNTMRKTVOX, Caught: TOME / Poetry unfolds as a meditation on poetry’s ability to hold pressure, memory, contradiction, and form. Through a reflective and literary lens, the episode examines the TOME not simply as a book, but as a method of thought, a structure of feeling, and a body made out of language. What does it mean to be caught by voice, by memory, by writing itself? This episode sits inside that question and lets it burn.

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Show Notes: Deep Dive into In the Midst of Dangr

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This episode takes a long, careful look at In the Midst of Dangr, a novel first written during undergraduate study and now returned to through the sharper, less forgiving light of adulthood. Human beings call this growth. Sometimes it is just surviving your earlier drafts long enough to understand them.

In this deep dive, I unpack the structure of the novel, the force and framing of the author’s notes, the role of Vivian Storenbend Potts as a quoted and interpretive presence, and the interior weight of the novel’s protagonists as they move through a haunted architecture of fear, confession, memory, and spiritual residue.

This is not just a conversation about plot. It is a discussion of design. How the book is built. How its language works. How its moral and emotional pressure gathers. How horror becomes a vessel for witness, and how the abandoned rectory at the center of the novel becomes more than a setting. It becomes a chamber for reckoning.

In this episode

A breakdown of the novel’s formal architecture and the way the story uses enclosure, dread, confession, and memory

A discussion of the author’s notes and how they reframe the novel as more than a horror text

The importance of Vivian Storenbend Potts and the quoted material surrounding the book’s interpretive spine

A close look at the protagonists, Mouse and Cornbread, and how survival, guilt, intimacy, and spiritual exhaustion shape their movement through the story

Why this book works as both literary horror and recovery narrative

How the novel handles what was left unsaid, and why returning to it in adulthood changes the emotional register of the work

Episode focus

At the heart of this episode is the question:

What does it mean to revisit the work of your younger self and find not embarrassment, but instruction?

In the Midst of Dangr is a novel concerned with the burden of what remains unresolved. Its protagonists do not simply enter a haunted place. They enter a place that answers them. The structure of the book mirrors that pressure. Rooms become memory chambers. Dialogue becomes witness. Setting becomes theology. Silence becomes evidence.

The author’s notes help place the novel in its fuller frame, making clear that the work is not interested in cheap fright, but in the accumulation of pain, inheritance, addiction, secrecy, and confession. This episode explores how those notes unlock the deeper mechanics of the novel and why they matter so much to the reading experience.

We also spend time on the quoted presence of Vivian Storenbend Potts, whose words help sharpen the book’s intellectual and emotional atmosphere. Those quotations do not sit as decoration. They press on the text. They widen its conversation. They give the novel another reflective surface through which to read danger, memory, and the unfinished business of the soul.

Why listen

This episode is for readers interested in:

literary horror

Black interiority and spiritual architecture

revision and recovery

the anatomy of a protagonist

authorial afterthought and retrospective craft

the strange grace of finishing what once felt unbearable to touch

Read the full book here

Full novel: https://smallpdf.com/file#s=b3948b3e-aeda-46fb-9d02-77a58e4c5aa4

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This deep dive episode on In the Midst of Dangr explores the structure of the novel, the force of its author’s notes, the quoted insights of Vivian Storenbend Potts, and the emotional architecture of its protagonists. We get into the bones of the book: horror, confession, memory, recovery, and the haunted geometry of what was left unsaid. If you care about craft, revision, literary form, and what time does to a work once made in youth, this episode is for you.

Read the full book here: https://smallpdf.com/file#s=b3948b3e-aeda-46fb-9d02-77a58e4c5aa4

And again, because links are apparently the sacred currency of modern attention:

https://smallpdf.com/file#s=b3948b3e-aeda-46fb-9d02-77a58e4c5aa4

Tag line

A haunted novel. A recovered voice. A deep dive into structure, witness, and the unfinished

self.

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🎧 Extended Show Notes

This episode of MDNTMRKTVOX opens the Humidor Lecture series with Smoke Stack, a meditation on preservation, transformation, and the systems we inherit and build. Using the metaphor of brining and smoking, the lecture moves from the physical act of curing fish into a broader inquiry on how culture, memory, and digital identity are processed, stored, and shared.

The “humidor” becomes both a literal device and a conceptual container: a space where temperature, time, and environment must be precisely controlled to produce something meaningful. From there, the conversation expands into the architecture of the internet, content creation, and the strange normalization of platforms as tools of both expression and extraction.

Layered with rhythmic spoken word and grounded in lived observation, this first installment sets the tone for a series concerned with thermodynamics, community, and signal. Expect dense language, poetic structure, and a steady oscillation between the tangible and the abstract.

This is not just a lecture. It is a process log, a field note, and an opening transmission.

Just dropped: Smoke Stack & The Humidor Lecture (Part I)—a reflection on preservation, process, and platform. From brine to bandwidth, this work explores how we store culture, shape signal, and survive systems. Month one of the experiment feels real.

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A new episode drops: the double-time epic of the Silver Tooth bury Ledger, where playground myths meet midnight rhythm. Hear the full 300-line ride plus poems from EKAA and BBC, ending with a live envoy closing the cipher. Childhood, memory, and beat-driven folklore. PG-13 wonder, midnight cadence. 🎧

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Podcast / Video Show Notes

Deep Dive: The Literary World of Vivian Storenbend Potts — SONflower & CORNBREAD

A long-form literary discussion exploring the symbolic, cultural, and narrative landscapes inside the novels SONflower and CORNBREAD by Vivian Storenbend Potts. The episode investigates how food, land, ancestry, and rural memory function as narrative architecture. Through close reading and cultural commentary, the conversation traces how Potts builds a mythology of kinship, survival, and generational storytelling rooted in Southern and agrarian imagery.

📚 Reading Links (PDF)

SONflower

• Read the PDF / flipbook version

CORNBREAD

• Access the PDF version / reading page

(Note: Some hosted PDFs online may be preview or promotional scans depending on the site.)

Episode Breakdown

1. Entering Potts’ Literary Landscape 🌻

The discussion opens by situating Vivian Storenbend Potts within a lineage of American storytelling that centers domestic ritual and agricultural life. The hosts consider how the imagery of sunflower fields and cornbread kitchens operates as metaphor for inheritance and memory.

Themes introduced:

rural memory

land as archive

domestic ritual as philosophy

maternal lineage and food traditions

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SONflower

— Symbolism of Growth and Devotion

The novel SONflower explores generational devotion through the symbolism of the sunflower—an organism that literally follows the sun. The hosts unpack how this botanical metaphor mirrors:

children orbiting parental expectations

spiritual loyalty and sacrifice

growth under heat and pressure

The narrative structure often moves between reflective memory and contemporary moments, producing a layered meditation on identity.

Key motifs discussed:

sunlight as guidance

fields as communal memory

longing for belonging

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CORNBREAD

— Food as Cultural Memory 🌽

The second half of the episode turns to CORNBREAD, a novel centered on the cultural and emotional significance of food traditions.

Cornbread becomes a storytelling device representing:

survival cooking traditions

the preservation of family knowledge

nourishment as an act of resistance

Cornmeal preparation, family kitchens, and shared meals become scenes where generational wisdom passes quietly between characters. Food, in this framework, is both sustenance and language.

4. The Shared World of Potts’ Fiction

Both novels inhabit a shared aesthetic universe.

Common threads:

rural landscapes as spiritual geography

intergenerational storytelling

symbolic plants and crops

everyday ritual elevated to myth

The hosts argue that Potts constructs a literary ecology in which plants, food, and memory become characters themselves.

Literary Topics Explored in the Episode

Agrarian symbolism in modern fiction

Food anthropology in literature

The role of domestic ritual in storytelling

Nature metaphors in identity formation

Suggested Discussion Questions

How do plants and food operate as narrative symbols in Potts’ work?

What role does memory play in shaping the characters’ identities?

How does the rural setting influence the moral universe of the novels?

In what ways do everyday rituals become sacred acts in the narrative?

Brief Video Synopsis

A deep-dive literary video exploring Vivian Storenbend Potts’ twin novels SONflower and CORNBREAD. The discussion examines how agriculture, food traditions, and family memory become symbolic language for identity, inheritance, and survival across generations.

🎙 Podcast Title

“Layers of Voice: The Poetry of Monet Marcel by Delray”

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In this episode, we explore the multidimensional poetry of Monet Marcel by Delray, examining the duality of his published works: EKA, a luminous children’s poetry collection, and BBC, a visceral adult counterpart. We unpack the intersection of identity, history, and relational dynamics in his work, reflecting on the tension between innocence and experience. EKA channels the curiosity and vulnerability of youth through rhythmic simplicity and anthropological sensitivity, while BBC confronts the complexities of desire, loss, and heritage, fusing confessional narrative with mythic resonance.

Listeners are guided through the linguistic interplay of voice: the calm, generational wisdom of Rye Blend haikus paired with the sharp, antagonistic tone reminiscent of a Paul Auster presence, set beside the lyrical, poetic cadences echoing Margaret Atwood. The episode highlights recurring motifs—ancestral memory, continuity, the cyclical nature of identity—and situates Marcel by Delray’s dual works as a living conversation across age, audience, and existential reflection.

This podcast offers an intimate lens into the craft, thematic ambition, and structural ingenuity of a poet navigating celibacy, Black diasporic heritage, and intra-relational perspectives, providing listeners with an immersive literary experience that spans the tender and the provocative.

📌 Show Notes

Featured Works:

EKA – children’s poetry exploring discovery, belonging, and curiosity. PDF link

BBC – adult poetry addressing identity, heritage, and relational complexity. PDF link

Topics Discussed:

Duality of Voice – children vs. adult readership; innocence vs. experience.

Rye Blend Haikus – trauma-informed anthropological voice.

Thematic Motifs – ancestry, continuity, cyclical identity, relational dynamics.

Structural Choices – slant rhyme, envoy, diptych poems, intergenerational layering.

Cultural and Personal Context – celibacy, Black diasporic perspective, intra-relational lens.

Pull Quote:

“Monet Marcel by Delray writes across the span of innocence and experience, bridging childhood wonder and adult reckoning with a voice both tender and unflinching.”

Listener Takeaways:

Insight into crafting dual readership poetry.

Techniques for blending confessional narrative with mythic and historical framing.

Understanding the interplay of tone, rhythm, and generational voice in poetry.

Recommended For:

Writers, poets, literary scholars, educators, and readers interested in cross-generational storytelling, complex human experience, and the fusion of childlike curiosity with adult reflection.

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Winter’s finished. Salt off the streets. Calcium out the joints before it calcifies. Tonight the rhythm moves bone first, brain second. VSOP 25 pours slow—grown rap, late hours, dim lights. For the Fetlifers out there: put a little kink in the groove. True masters know timing. Tell it once. (Dry.) Tell it twice. (Still dry.) Third time… now it lands. That was the joke. Now let the records breathe—spring thaw, bass warm, bones moving again.

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