Recto/Verso: Conversations Beyond Art

Liz Asch
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Welcome to the Recto/Verso podcast where artists come together to talk about the unsaid and  overlooked aspects of making art and crafting a life. We can think of the Recto as the aspect of artmaking that gets shared with the public, the finished product, and we can think of the Verso as all the other work that goes into it, including the shadow sides, the struggles, the personal journey and discoveries.   Join me, your host Liz Asch, author of Your Salt on My Lips and creator and host of the meditation podcast, Body Land Metaphor Medicine, where you can find over fifty guided visualizations designed to help you feel more grounded, soothed, and settled in your nervous system. Body Land Metaphor Medicine is in English and Spanish.   Here on Recto/Verso: Conversations Beyond Art, I welcome a new guest artist each episode and we talk. Together we get real about what current projects and passions are lighting them up with discoveries and reveals on how we navigate life as working artists in today’s world.  

Episodes

  1. Episode 4: Lidia Yuknavitch, Author of the Chronology of Water, On the Film and Book

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    Episode 4: Lidia Yuknavitch, Author of the Chronology of Water, On the Film and Book

    Join me, your host Liz Asch, as I talk with Lidia Yuknavitch about her experience sharing her book, The Chronology of Water, with the world, and how it’s been for her seeing her memoir transformed into a film, starring Imogen Poots, directed by Kristen Stewart. Lidia is the fairy godmother to a myriad of writers here in Portland, Oregon, and all over the country and the world. She is brilliant and humble and funny and clever and, in this episode, you get to hear her thoughts, feelings, and impressions of this wild process, which we discuss as a form of ekphrasis. If you haven’t listened to my previous interview with Lidia (Recto/Verso episode 3), you might want to play that one first. Thank you so much for joining me, Lidia Yuknavitch, and to those of you listening as well.

    1h 14m
  2. Lidia Yuknavitch on Reading the Waves and Riding the Currents: A Recto/Verso Artist Interview with Liz Asch

    09/09/2025

    Lidia Yuknavitch on Reading the Waves and Riding the Currents: A Recto/Verso Artist Interview with Liz Asch

    Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of 12 books including The Chronology of Water, Reading the Waves, which is her latest book, the Misfits Manifesto, Thrust, Verge, The Small Backs of Children, Joan of Dirt, and Dora: A Headcase. Lidia is the founder of Portland’s cherished school of Corporeal Writing. She has decades of experience teaching, has won awards up the wazoo, and is one of the most beloved members of the literary community where we live here in Portland, Oregon, and her reach extends so far, into the hearts of countless readers, friends, and admirers. Lidia is outrageously talented, perceptive and thoughtful, and she is also one of the most generous people I’ve ever known. I consider myself extremely lucky to walk on this planet at the same time as Lidia Yuknavitch and am so grateful to call her a dear friend

    1h 20m
  3. Jon Raymond on God and Sex: A Recto/Verso Artist Interview with Liz Asch

    02/09/2025

    Jon Raymond on God and Sex: A Recto/Verso Artist Interview with Liz Asch

    Jon Raymond's newest novel revolves around a love triangle and what happens when we ‘break the rules’ and bend our own morals. If we make a promise in a moment of duress, are we beholden to it? If it seems like there are consequences to our moral failures, is it all our own invention? and whatever outcome is just happenstance? or is it comeuppance? Who is to say?

    51 min
  4. Anna Diem on Writing Songs with Heart and Rigor: A Recto/Verso Artist Interview with Liz Asch

    28/08/2025

    Anna Diem on Writing Songs with Heart and Rigor: A Recto/Verso Artist Interview with Liz Asch

    Anna Diem is a Portland, Oregon based singer songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. Her album, hello Oregon, came out in 2022, Small Victories in 2019 and Gay Love Songs is her 2018 EP. Anna has a wide range of singles as well. You can find her music on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, and BandCamp. Her lyrics are poetic and intimate and she sings about love and queerness culture, nostalgia and yearning mostly in the alt-pop genre. It's a real treat to see her live and I've been lucky to be in her audience over the years in Portland, where I always end up making new friends! Thanks to Ezra Greenhill for our theme song and to Alix Grande for production support.

    1h 13m
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Welcome to the Recto/Verso podcast where artists come together to talk about the unsaid and  overlooked aspects of making art and crafting a life. We can think of the Recto as the aspect of artmaking that gets shared with the public, the finished product, and we can think of the Verso as all the other work that goes into it, including the shadow sides, the struggles, the personal journey and discoveries.   Join me, your host Liz Asch, author of Your Salt on My Lips and creator and host of the meditation podcast, Body Land Metaphor Medicine, where you can find over fifty guided visualizations designed to help you feel more grounded, soothed, and settled in your nervous system. Body Land Metaphor Medicine is in English and Spanish.   Here on Recto/Verso: Conversations Beyond Art, I welcome a new guest artist each episode and we talk. Together we get real about what current projects and passions are lighting them up with discoveries and reveals on how we navigate life as working artists in today’s world.  

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