The Amy Beecher Show

Bronwen Tate writes poems about sex after miscarriage, among other things. She is brilliant, she is my friend. Recorded from my bed in 2022, I don’t entirely remember what we talked about…definitely writing, higher education, friendship, and Barbara Johnson. 

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Bronwen Tate’s website Barbara Johnson’s essay “Apostrophe, Animation, and Abortion” Subscribe to Bronwen Tate’s Substack Newsletter   Read the feature on Bronwen in Jill Hess's Noted newsletter YELLOW TALE // SCARCITY published in Typo Mag (as read aloud in the episode by Bronwen) Bronwen curates a Reading Series in Vancouver. Subscribe to the newsletter here: https://wholecloth.substack.com/ Bronwen’s previous podcast appearances!: The Slowdown with Ada Limón Writers Read Their Early Sh*t Podcast interview Of Poetry podcast interview

Filmmaker Leslie Tai’s How To Have an American Baby is streaming on PBS through March 10, 2024. The POV documentary is an intimate look at the shadow economy that caters to Chinese parents who travel to the US to give birth for citizenship. We discuss the film, the commodification of American motherhood, the tragedies of infant morbidity, and what birth sounds like (in any language). Trigger warning: this episode includes discussion of death and medical malpractice.   Never miss an episode of The Amy Beecher Show. Subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on Instagram and Facebook. Show Notes Watch How To Have An American Baby on PBS How To Have An American Baby on Instagram How To Have An American Baby Website Leslie Tai

This episode is an enlightening conversation with basket weaver and green burial expert Mary Lauren Fraser. Content warning: Mary weaves urns and coffins. We talk a lot about death and dying in this episode. 

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Mary Lauren Fraser Baskets

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Erin M. Riley makes narrative, painterly weavings that give voice to complex stories of domestic abuse and intimacy. We talk trauma, healing, self-splintering, and weaving. 

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Erin M. Riley

NYC Crit Club is a misleading name for the collaborative learning program that Catherine Haggarty and Hilary Doyle founded five years ago. A) You can take classes with them from anywhere in the world B) it's super inclusive (affordable!)- less a club, more a gathering. I'm teaching there in the spring and Mira Fucking Schor is teaching there in the fall..two icons! Listen on for more info. Enrollment opens August 15th.    NYC Crit Club Fall 2022 Courses   PS: We don't usually do #ads because that would break from this pod's brand of time consuming and unprofitable that Amy has built over so many years. But NYC Crit Club is great, worth the exception.   #intentional  #plug.

Didier and I talk Miami, Haiti, immigrant experiences, concepts of home, and painting (of course). Also: how to not sleep train a baby.

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Didier William

At the beginning of the pandemic artist, critic, and co-editor of Precog magazine Gaby Collins-Fernandez gave a lecture to an empty room at The School of Visual Arts in New York City. It was about The Baroque and it was brilliant. That lecture, Georgia O’Keefe, Washington Heights, and more.

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Gaby Collins-Fernandez

Precog Magazine

Colombia born artist Este Puerta went to Catholic school in Boston, performed on the streets of Argentina, and unravels the term “Vermonter.” Wounds, wombs, and other wonders in this episode. 

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If I could listen to a podcast and sing The Wheels On the Bus at the same time, I would listen to this week’s re-release of my conversation with Jackie Cedar, painter and founder of Good Work Gallery. I recorded it with her during the pandemic, before Ben…the cognitive equivalent of a scene you vaguely remember from a movie you once saw….

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Happy holiday week. My gift to you: three things you can do to feel less “meh” about your holiday break. 1)    Donate to the Institute of American Indian Arts, a college and research center in Santa Fe devoted to supporting indigenous American arts. One of my former students goes there. 2)    Attend the last performance of my exhibition at Pari Passu view live stream or in-person. 3)    Listen to this re-release. It’s with Cassandra Jenkins! She’s on tour right now, killing it. Somebody at a party once told me this was their favorite episode. Or was it that it was the only one they listened to? Not sure. Go for it.

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