Sema

Sema

By CL YoungSociety & CulturePhilosophy
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Sema episodes

  • Boise, Friendship Loss, & Time w/ Tyler Brewington
    Tyler Brewington talks with CL Young about Boise, time, grief rhythms, and friendship.///////Tyler Brewington is the author of the chapbook Dear Stray Volcano (alice blue, 2015) and, with Kelly Schirmann, the collections Nature Machine and Boyfriend Mountain (Poor Claudia, 2015). His poems have appeared in PEN America’s PEN Poetry Series, Salt Hill, Powder Keg, Sixth Finch, COAST|noCOAST, and elsewhere. He received an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and he is from Boise, Idaho.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].
    53 min
  • Writing, Detachment, & Ritual w/ Rushi Vyas
    Rushi Vyas talks with CL Young about writing after loss, the role of detachment in healing, and ritual as a tool for decolonization.///////Rushi Vyas is a US-born poet now living in Aotearoa New Zealand. He is currently working on a creative/critical PhD in Literature at Te Whare Wānanga o Otākou (The University of Otago) focused on ritual based poetic practice. His first poetry collection, When I Reach For Your Pulse (forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2023), orbits the experience of Rushi finding his father dead from suicide in 2013. The poems serve as an entry point into the healing process and as a way to explore transnational and transcultural identity and inheritance. https://www.rushivyas.org/ The Book of Delights / Ross Gay: https://bookshop.org/books/the-book-of-delights-essays/9781616207922 Sema’s trailer 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].
    40 min
  • Threads of Loss, Being a Therapist, & Intergenerational Grief w/ Ann O’Leary Young
    Ann O’Leary Young, M.S.W., LCSW, talks with CL Young about loss, being a therapist, and grief passed between generations. ///////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].
    43 min
  • Sema
    About the podcast.
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    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].
    5 min
  • Episode 0 / About
    About the podcast.
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    Sema’s music is from a song by Teal Gardner called “Joy Heraldic.” You can find it here: https://soundcloud.com/spirit-kazoo/joy
    To join the Sema mailing list or share your insights, please send an email to: [email protected]
    6 min

About Sema

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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 has been located here since 2020.