Sema

By CL Young

Sema is an evolving experiment in deep attention and community-making across form, place, and time. Initiated in 2018 as a poetry-focused organization in Boise, Idaho, Sema continues to transform and ... more

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The podcast currently has 16 episodes available.

Sema episodes:

June 01, 2025 “BOISE” WORK : record 6 : Ceci Richardson-Salvador + Teal Gardner
conversation with Teal Gardner and Ceci Richardson-Salvador on 05.09.2025 at The Common Well — making work rooted in love with land, finding unification through care, Earth as a neutralizing force; Ceci + Teal 's artist talk on 04.15.2025 (begins 01:16:58)

related:
Ceci’s website
Teal’s website
Ecogeoglyphic Observatory
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2h 15min
April 27, 2025 "BOISE" WORK : record 5 : Ryan Simmons + Drone Bath
conversation with Ryan Simmons on 04.11.2025 at The Common Well — connection and exchange with nonhuman entities toward relationships of care, sound, projection, impulses to make/record/translate/share, 03.11.2025 river drone bath

full drone bath begins 01:39:31

related:
Ecogeoglyphic Observatory
Boise River Enhancement Network
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2h 3min
April 21, 2025 “BOISE” WORK : record 4 : Hallie Maxwell
conversation with Hallie Maxwell on 02.12.2025 at the James Castle House — community, process, form, personal history in place

related:
Hallie Maxwell’s work
James Castle House
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1h 26min
February 17, 2025 “BOISE” WORK : record 3 : Blake Hunter + Taylor Rico-Pekerol
conversation with Blake Hunter and Taylor Rico-Pekerol during the opening of INTERCHANGE (Caroline Earley + Kate Walker) at The Common Well on 02.07.2025; follow-up conversation with Blake Hunter on 02.14.2025 — desettling, science fiction, fear, connecting with place through care, ritual, ancestry, language
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1h 47min
January 25, 2025 “BOISE” WORK : record 2 : Tyler Brewington
conversation with Tyler Brewington on 01.23.2025 — record of 01.11.2025 grief release, time, poetry, reckoning with place

related:
grief release
Meet Me At the Center of the Bridge | with Tyler
Sema 03: Boise, Friendship Loss, and Time with Tyler Brewington
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1h 12min
January 19, 2025 “BOISE” WORK : record 1 : Karena Youtz
conversation with Karena Youtz on 01.16.2025 — record of 01.11.2025 grief release, release 1 + 2 context, ritual, care

related:
grief release
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44min
July 21, 2021 Relationality, Embodiment, & Suicide w/ Mairead Case
Mairead Case talks with CL Young about relationality in life and after death, embodiment, moving through sadness, and grieving and writing about suicide.
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Mairead Case writes and teaches in Denver. She is the author of Tiny and See You In the Morning (featherproof), TENDERNESS (Meekling), and To The Teeth, a column at Entropy. Mairead publishes and edits widely, with work most recently in POETRY, JSTOR Daily, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, and at Public Media Institute, Public Collectors, and Maggot Brain, where she is the Associate Editor. She teaches at Naropa University, the Colorado School of Mines, and inside the Denver Women's Jail. Mairead holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a PhD from the University of Denver. She has been a Legal Observer with the NLG for over a decade. | https://maireadcase.com/

Tiny by Mairead Case: http://www.featherproof.com/catalog/tiny-mairead-case
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/193049/close-to-the-knives-by-david-wojnarowicz/
Gaylord Phoenix by Edie Fake: https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/47744/
Sema’s music is from a song by Teal Gardner called “Joy Heraldic.” You can find more of her music here: https://spirit88.bandcamp.com/album/free-in-the-open-field
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48min
June 17, 2021 Ambient Loss, Having Children, & the Necessity of Storytelling w/ Camille T. Dungy
Camille T. Dungy talks with CL Young about loss as an ambient presence, climate crisis, having children, cross-generational relationships, and the importance of storytelling.
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Camille T. Dungy’s debut collection of personal essays is Guidebook to Relative Strangers (W. W. Norton, 2017), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan UP, 2017), winner of the Colorado Book Award. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019. https://camilledungy.com/

Plastic: An Autobiography by Allison Cobb: https://nightboat.org/book/plastic-an-autobiography/
Iep Jaltok: Poems From A Marshallese Daughter by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner: http://www.kathyjetnilkijiner.com/book/iep-jaltok-poems-from-a-marshallese-daughter/
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler: https://www.octaviabutler.com/parableseries
“Let Me” in the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/12/let-me
Sema’s music is from a song by Teal Gardner called “Joy Heraldic.” You can find more of her music here: https://spirit88.bandcamp.com/album/free-in-the-open-field
To join the mailing list, request an episode transcript, or share your insights, please send an email to: [email protected].
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54min
April 26, 2021 Adoption, Potentiality, & the Loss of Unknowing w/ Erinrose Mager
Erinrose Mager talks with CL Young about the unknowingness associated with adoption and parental estrangement, the interplay between potentiality and failure, and ritual as a presencing practice.
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Erinrose Mager is a writer, editor, and teacher living in Brooklyn, NY. She was born in and adopted from Korea. Her work appears in jubilat, Fence, DIAGRAM, Prelude, and elsewhere, and she’s a doctoral candidate in Literary Arts at the University of Denver. She is at work on a full-length collection.
Erinrose Mager and Mary-Kim Arnold in Pulpmouth: https://www.pulpmouth.net/issue3-erinrose-mager-and-mary-kim-
Sema’s music is from a song by Teal Gardner called “Joy Heraldic.” You can find more of her music here: https://spirit88.bandcamp.com/album/free-in-the-open-field
To join the mailing list, request an episode transcript, or share your insights, please send an email to: [email protected].
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1h
March 18, 2021 Newborn Loss, Place, & Deep Grief w/ Cedar Brant
Cedar Brant talks with CL Young about newborn loss, place, and the erasure of self that accompanies deep grief and parenthood.
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Cedar Brant grew up in northern Montana and worked for many years as a field botanist. She is the author of the book of poems ‘Like Any Other Dream Will Do.’ She currently lives in Moab, Utah where she is training as a birth story listener focusing on birth trauma with the Birth Story Medicine School, homesteading in a trailer on a creek, and spending time in the canyons with her husband, her child, and her dog.
Sema’s music is from a song by Teal Gardner called “Joy Heraldic.” You can find more of her music here: https://spirit88.bandcamp.com/album/free-in-the-open-field
To join the mailing list, request an episode transcript, or share your insights, please send an email to: [email protected].
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59min

FAQs about Sema:

How many episodes does Sema have?

The podcast currently has 16 episodes available.