Sema

CL Young

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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. 2025 - present Experimental records; conversations with poets, artists, and care workers. 2020 - 2021 Conversations with writers on loss, grief, healing, and death.

06/01/2025

“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

2h 14m
04/27/2025

"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

2h 2m
04/21/2025

“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

1h 25m
02/17/2025

“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

1h 46m
01/25/2025

“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

1h 11m
01/19/2025

“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

44 min
07/21/2021

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. /////// 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

47 min
06/17/2021

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. /////// 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: sema.readingseries@gmail.com.

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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. 2025 - present Experimental records; conversations with poets, artists, and care workers. 2020 - 2021 Conversations with writers on loss, grief, healing, and death.

Creator

CL Young
Years Active

2020 - 2025
Episodes

13
Rating

Explicit
Copyright

© CL Young
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Sema