Episodes 13
Avg. Duration 1h 10m
Activity Sporadic
Since Dec 2020
Latest Episode Jun 2025

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Monthly
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Episodic
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About This Podcast

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.

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Recent Episodes

S2E6 “BOISE” WORK : record 6 : Ceci Richardson-Salvador + Teal Gardner

Jun 01, 2025 2h 14m

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;…

S2E5 "BOISE" WORK : record 5 : Ryan Simmons + Drone Bath

Apr 27, 2025 2h 2m

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…

S2E4 “BOISE” WORK : record 4 : Hallie Maxwell

Apr 21, 2025 1h 25m

conversation with Hallie Maxwell on 02.12.2025 at the James Castle House — community, process, form, personal history in placerelated:Hallie Maxwell’s workJames Castle House

S2E3 “BOISE” WORK : record 3 : Blake Hunter + Taylor Rico-Pekerol

Feb 17, 2025 1h 46m

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…

S2E4 “BOISE” WORK : record 2 : Tyler Brewington

Jan 25, 2025 1h 11m

conversation with Tyler Brewington on 01.23.2025 — record of 01.11.2025 grief release, time, poetry, reckoning with placerelated:grief releaseMeet Me At the Center of the Bridge | with TylerSema 03:…

S2E3 “BOISE” WORK : record 1 : Karena Youtz

Jan 19, 2025 43m

conversation with Karena Youtz on 01.16.2025 — record of 01.11.2025 grief release, release 1 + 2 context, ritual, carerelated:grief release

S1E8 Relationality, Embodiment, & Suicide w/ Mairead Case

Jul 21, 2021 47m

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…

S1E7 Ambient Loss, Having Children, & the Necessity of Storytelling w/ Camille T. Dungy

Jun 17, 2021 53m

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.…

S1E6 Adoption, Potentiality, & the Loss of Unknowing w/ Erinrose Mager

Apr 26, 2021 59m

Erinrose 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…

S1E5 Newborn Loss, Place, & Deep Grief w/ Cedar Brant

Mar 18, 2021 58m

Cedar 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…

S1E3 Boise, Friendship Loss, & Time w/ Tyler Brewington

Jan 23, 2021 52m

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…

S1E2 Writing, Detachment, & Ritual w/ Rushi Vyas

Jan 03, 2021 39m

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…

S1E1 Threads of Loss, Being a Therapist, & Intergenerational Grief w/ Ann O’Leary Young

Dec 19, 2020 42m

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…

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Sema has published 13 episodes since December 2020, covering topics in Philosophy, Society & Culture.

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