Sema
18 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsExperimental conversations on loss, grief, healing and death.
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Episodes
8 / Relationality, Embodiment, & Suicide w/ Mairead Case
July 21, 2021 16:01 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBMairead Case talks with CL Young about relationality in life and after death, embodiment, moving through sadness, and grieving and writing about suicide. /////// 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...
7 / Ambient Loss, Having Children, & the Necessity of Storytelling w/ Camille T. Dungy
June 17, 2021 08:30 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBCamille T. Dungy talks with CL Young about loss as an ambient presence, climate crisis, having children, cross-generational relationships, and the importance of storytelling. /////// 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 ...
6 / Adoption, Potentiality, & the Loss of Unknowing w/ Erinrose Mager
April 26, 2021 21:04 - 59 minutes - 55.2 MBErinrose 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. /////// 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 c...
5 / Newborn Loss, Place, & Deep Grief w/ Cedar Brant
March 18, 2021 19:30 - 58 minutes - 54.1 MBCedar Brant talks with CL Young about newborn loss, place, and the erasure of self that accompanies deep grief and parenthood. /////// 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 i...
4 / Bridge + Healing Practice
February 15, 2021 16:32 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBBridge episode with healing practice. /////// To join the Sema mailing list, request an episode transcript, or share your insights, please send an email to: [email protected]
4 / Bridge + Practice
February 15, 2021 16:32 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBBridge episode with somatic practice. /////// To join the mailing list, request an episode transcript, or share your insights, please send an email to: [email protected].
3 / Boise, Friendship Loss, & Time w/ Tyler Brewington
January 23, 2021 20:23 - 52 minutes - 48.7 MBTyler 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. ...
3/ Boise, Friendship Loss, & Time w/ Tyler Brewington
January 23, 2021 20:23 - 52 minutes - 48.8 MBTyler 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. ...
Episode 2 / Rushi Vyas
January 03, 2021 19:00 - 39 minutes - 37 MBRushi Vyas talks with CL Young about writing and ritual as aspects of healing. /////// 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 p...
2 / Writing, Detachment, & Ritual w/ Rushi Vyas
January 03, 2021 19:00 - 39 minutes - 36.8 MBRushi 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 Rus...
2 / Writing, Ritual, & Healing w/ Rushi Vyas
January 03, 2021 19:00 - 39 minutes - 36.9 MBRushi Vyas talks with CL Young about writing and ritual as aspects of healing. /////// 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 p...
1 / Loss, Being a Therapist, & Intergenerational Grief w/ Ann O’Leary Young
December 19, 2020 00:58 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBAnn 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].
1 / Generational Grief w/ Ann O’Leary Young
December 19, 2020 00:58 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBAnn O’Leary Young, M.S.W., LCSW, talks with CL Young about generational grief and how her experiences of loss led her to become a therapist. /////// 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 mailing list, request an episode transcript, or share your insights, please send an email to: [email protected]
Episode 1 / Ann O’Leary Young
December 19, 2020 00:58 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBAnn O’Leary Young, M.S.W., LCSW, talks with CL Young about how her experiences of loss led her to become a therapist. /////// 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 mailing list, request an episode transcript, or share your insights, please send an email to: [email protected]
Episode 0 / Introduction
December 14, 2020 19:26 - 4 minutes - 4.55 MBAbout the podcast. /////// 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]
Episode 0 / Sema
December 14, 2020 19:26 - 4 minutes - 4.55 MBAbout the podcast. /////// 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 mailing list, request an episode transcript, or share your insights, please send an email to: [email protected]
0 / Sema
December 14, 2020 19:26 - 4 minutes - 4.47 MBAbout the podcast. /////// 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].
Episode 0 / About
December 11, 2020 19:21 - 5 minutes - 4.92 MBAbout the podcast. /////// 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]