Three Angsty Poets, Tomas Baiza, Rebecca Evans, and Christian Winn, gathered together to chat initially about poetry, but the conversation turned, and they found themselves invigorated, inspired, and mostly miffed at the world, the gods, the past, the future.
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MING Studios‘ My__on Mondays explores the possessive “My” through narratives, art, and sound. Every Monday, we publish a new audio, performance or experimental piece where only one rule applies: the title must begin with the determiner “My”.
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My Angst with Literary Jerks.
We want to know who qualifies as a jerk in the world of literary arts—fictional characters, real life writers, the over critical professor, the characters developed in film? These can sometimes be the villains we love to hate, right?
Checkout Episode 155.
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In Episode Six of the series they discuss new Angsty thoughts: My Angst on Who Can Write About Who. We want to know where the line in the sand falls when it comes to writing about all things outside of yourself. Who gets to write another’s story? Who should?
Checkout Episode 154.
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Episode Five: My Angst with Book-to-Movie Adaptations. When done well, we love it. When it dishonors the entire point of the book, the art, the narrative arc… well, we’ve a few words. We’ve some angst against poorly scripted or completely re-written scripts from manuscripts we love.
Checkout Episode 150.
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In Episode Four, the Angsters chat about Gatekeeping in Publishing. We want to know, who holds the keys and how can a writer earn a backstage pass OR learn the secret handshake? Are there good reasons to keep writers OUT?
Checkout Episode 148.
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MING Studios podcast aired the first in a series of these Angsty thoughts: Episode 132: My Angst on Your Perception is a conversation swirling around audience and readers’ assumptions pressed on the narrator, the speaker, the poet.
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The second Angsty podcast, My Angst with Autofiction, challenges the genre, how we define fiction versus nonfiction, and our contracts with readers. Checkout Episode 135.
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The third Angsty podcast, My Angst with Pidgeonholing Writers discusses the harm that emerges from typecasting artists, though there can be benefits. They also explore avoiding the pitfalls of pigeonholing within the publishing industry and writing community. Checkout Episode 142.
