Conversations about life and living each and everyday and all things music
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Musings of the Artist features meaningful conversations with all kinds of artists. Musicians, poets, photographers, and other creatives share their honest stories, touching on the duality of being creative - the pure joy of making art - but also the particular struggles that come with it. In speaking about vulnerability, many of these artists remind us that even though people can look like they have it all together on the surface, we all struggle. In each episode, Montse's guests share the c ...
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Amina Cain is Los Angeles based writer. She is the author of the novel Indelicacy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020), and two collections of short stories, Creature (Dorothy, 2013) and I Go To Some Hollow (Les Figues Press, 2009). Her latest book is A Horse at Night: On Writing (Dorothy, 2022). In this conversation we discuss friendship, writing, clas…
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Sue William Silverman is an award-winning author of eight works of nonfiction and poetry and her most recent book is Acetylene Torch Songs: Writing True Stories to Ignite the Soul. This conversation, just like her book, is centered around writing personal narratives. We discuss putting our most vulnerable selves on the page, the fluidity of memory,…
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Creative Conversation with Sedrick Jackson
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the ins and outs of building and repair creditAv Angry Artist
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Creative Conversation with Mark Dudley pt1
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Conversation with comic creator/ writer Mark DudleyAv Angry Artist
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Creative Conversation with Gerald Dubose
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a conversation with Business man Gerald Dubose/ what got him into writing comics and creating the world of ynegmaAv Angry Artist
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Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding, and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude. In addition to his poetry, Ross has released three collections of essays—The Book of Delights (a New York Times bestseller), Inciting Joy, and his newest collection, The Book of (More) Delights. This conversation,…
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The Ella and Leland Show Episode 16
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A mental institution, Phantom alarm, Something in the wall.Av leland5p
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The Ella and Leland Show Episode 15 - Black Widow?
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Another Crime Story, Rocks, TrackAv leland5p
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The Ella and Leland Show Episode 14 - Baby Farming????
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Snow holding on, poor groundhog, baby farming?????Av leland5p
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The Ella and Leland Show Episode 13 -
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Warm Weather, The Dairy, That noise ??????????? #StrangenoiseAv leland5p
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Gregory Orr is a poet who is known to be a master of the short, personal lyric. About Gregory, Mary Oliver wrote “He speaks now, in these many short poems, which in their entirety are really one long poem, of mysteries, of those things –emotions, situations, mind and heart states–which are beyond the definitive.” Gregory is the author of more than …
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The Ella and Leland Show Episode 12
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Good Friday, Ella's crazy curlers, Free Camp for Kids.Av leland5p
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The Ella and Leland Show Episode 11- Thundersnow????????
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Thundersnow, in MarchAv leland5p
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The Ella and Leland Show Episode 10 - No more GroundHog
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Spring in the air, our Last episode, a new cold case, Benefits and moreAv leland5p
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The Ella and Leland Show Episode 9 Spooky Stories, Big Foot, Oak Island, Magnet Fishing
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The Ella and Leland Show Episode 9 Spooky Stories, Big Foot, Oak Island, Magnet Fishing. Stories about the missing, the found and the unexplained.Av leland5p
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The Ella and Leland Show Episode 8 - Weather, Gators, Boys
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The Weather and it's Storms, Swamp People.................. Boys are crazy .........................Av leland5p
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The Ella and Leland Show Episode 7 interview with my Niece Olivia Moen
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Funny things and the Hamster incident, Fargo Flooring Store.Av leland5p
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The Ella and Leland Show Episode 6 - Grandpa Hilmer and Go Carts
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We Talk about Go Kart racing with Grandpa Hilmer, Ella's Original Story "Don't Go into the Cellar" Snow Fall and the mountains Wheel Jam and more.Av leland5p
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Philip Metres is a poet, translator and director of the Peace, Justice and Human Rights program at John Carroll University. He is the author of ten books, including Shrapnel Maps, The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance, Pictures at an Exhibition, and Sand Opera. Tomás Q. Morin is a poet, translator, and editor. His books include th…
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The Ella and Leland Show ( SuperBowl Dolphin Story, Jokes and More) Episode 5
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The Ella and Leland Show ( SuperBowl Dolphin Story, Jokes and More) Episode 5 Wax Museum RevealAv leland5p
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The Ella and Leland Show Episode 4 - Spooky Stories
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Episode has spooky stories about a Mansion and other storiesAv leland5p
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The Ella and Leland Show Episode 3 Wax Museum
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Talking about Ella's Wax Museum, Little House on the Prairie and Spooky Story.Av leland5p
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The Ella and Leland Show Episode 2 (Trip to Florida)
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Ella and I talk about our trip to Florida and the sights we saw on our adventures.Av leland5p
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Ella and I talk about the weeks past events and our summer adventures.Av leland5p
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Artist to Artist Conversations with Leland Harding III guest Emma Nichole
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First ever Episode of "Artist To Artist Conversations with Leland Harding III" We speak with the fabulous artist Emma Nichole about her life and singles she currently has out.Av leland5p
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Laura Warrell is a writer based in Los Angeles. "Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm" is her first novel. The story follows a 40-year-old jazz musician and womanizer Circus Palmer–but this book centers the women in his life. It is a telling of their stories, not only his. Laura and I talk about her wonderful debut and her path to publication which is an ins…
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Ama Codjoe is a poet based in New York City. She is the author of Bluest Nude and Blood of the Air. Her poems and essays have been published in many outlets and her work has twice appeared in The Best American Poetry. Her poems often engage with visual art—especially art by Black women artists. This conversation is much about the body. On how we re…
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Diana Khoi Nguyen is a poet and multimedia artist. She is the author of the poetry collection, Ghost Of (Omnidawn Publishing, 2018) which was a finalist for the National Book Award and L.A. Times Book Prize. In this episode we talk about grief, complex emotions, silence, and breaking that silence through art. Note: There is a bit of static in the b…
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Ingrid Rojas Contreras is a writer who was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia and now lives in San Francisco, California. Her first book was the novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree and her most recent book is a family memoir called The Man Who Could Move Clouds. In this episode we chat all about language. On writing between two languages and cultures,…
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Elinor Carucci is an Israeli-American Fine Art Photographer based in New York City. Her photographs are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art New York, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Art, among others. Her work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, W, Aperture, and many other public…
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Victoria Chang is a poet, writer and editor. Her new book of poetry is The Trees Witness Everything (2022). Her other books include Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence and Grief (2021) and OBIT (2020). In this episode, we chat about collaboration in art, her wonderful and varied use of form in her writing, and her current role as poetry editor…
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Melissa Febos is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, Whip Smart, and the essay collections, Abandon Me and Girlhood. Her craft book, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative, will be published on March 15th. In this episode, Melissa and I chat about her wonderful book Body Work. We talk about writing as a spiritual practice (an…
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David Hilliard is a fine art photographer based in Boston. He received his BFA from Massachusetts College of Art, and his MFA from Yale University. Through the use of diptychs and triptychs, his beautiful work documents his life and the lives of those around him. In this episode, David talks about his life in photography and how his love of theater…
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Fernando A. Flores is a writer based in Austin, TX. His books include the collection Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas, the novel Tears of the Trufflepig, and his upcoming book is Valleyesque. In this episode, Fernando and I talked all about the ups and downs of the creative life, on living between cultures, the difference between writin…
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Michael Kleber-Diggs is a poet, essayist, and literary critic. His debut poetry collection Worldly Things was published last year and he is also a contributor to the book There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis. Michael teaches creative writing through the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop and at colleges and high schools in Mi…
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Janelle Lynch is a New York-based artist whose images reveal an inquiry into themes of connection, presence, and transcendence. She uses an 8x10-inch view camera, and her recent work is deeply informed by her training in perceptual drawing and painting. Janelle’s photographs are in many private and public collections, including The Metropolitan Mus…
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Jill Andrews is a musician and songwriter living in Nashville. Her EP "Ellen" was released this fall. In this episode Jill and I chat about the perils and gifts of being highly sensitive, moving out of our 30s, art-making, and more. Plus, find out the book Jill would like to put in people’s stockings! This episode was audio produced by Aaron Moring…
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Daisy Hernández is a writer and cultural activist. She is the author of the award-winning memoir "A Cup of Water Under My Bed" and coeditor of "Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism". Her latest book is "The Kissing Bug: A True Story of an Insect, a Family and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease". In this episode, we have a wid…
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Aline Smithson is a visual artist, editor, and educator based in Los Angeles. She is also the Founder and Editor- in-Chief of Lenscratch, a daily journal on photography. In this conversation, Aline talks about her trajectory to fine art photography: from painter, to fashion editor to photographer. We discuss roadblocks and fear, long-term projects,…
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Emily Bernard is an author and professor. She holds a B.A. and Ph. D. in American Studies from Yale University. Her most recent book is the essay collection Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine. In this wide-ranging conversation, Emily speaks on motherhood, fear, forgiveness, rejecting shame and staying …
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Mary Gauthier is a Grammy-nominated songwriter, and author. She has a gift of making outsiders feel like insiders, which is a beautiful thread throughout her new memoir “Saved by a Song.” We talk about making a life out of being creative, the vulnerability of performing, the beauty and wonder of being a late bloomer, and why the maybe’s we get are …
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Lidia Yuknavitch is the nationally bestselling author of the novels The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of Children, and Dora: A Headcase, and the memoir The Chronology of Water. Her newest book Verge is a collection of short stories. She also has a TED Talk “The Beauty of Being a Misfit” that has been viewed by millions. She lives in Portland, Orego…
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Andrew Duhon is a singer-songwriter from New Orleans. In this episode, we chat about the search for belonging, self-acceptance, and finding the profound in the minutia. Andrew also talks about songwriting and art making in a way that is mesmerizing and inspiring. As he says, “No one else is you, no one else can tell your story. It is your human tal…
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Nadia Owusu is an author and urbanist who grew up between Africa and Europe and now lives in Brooklyn. In the episode Nadia talks about her memoir Aftershocks and the ways growing up between cultures shaped her life. We also chat about claiming, naming, and accepting mental illness as a part of one’s identity, code-switching, and the gifts of memoi…
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Pam Houston is the author of many books including the memoir, "Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country", "Cowboys are my Weakness" and most recently "Air Mail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics, and Place" (with Amy Irvine). Pam is also a fantastic teacher and the co-founder and creative director of the literary nonprofit Writing By Writers. In t…
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Rachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet, visual artist, and novelist. We chat about her stunning collection of poetry and photography, "Seeing the Body". Some of the topics we speak on include monumental loss and the grief that follows, memory, languages of sadness, taking action against despair, and pushing away the useless pressure of likability. Rachel…
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Josh Telles is a Celebrity and Food Photographer based in LA. He has photographed artists like Nicole Kidman, David Lynch, Mary J. Blige, and so many others. In this episode, Josh tells us about his path to becoming the photographer he is today. We chat about vulnerability in photo making, chronic anxiety, telling other people’s stories through pho…
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Cig Harvey is a photographer and writer based in Maine. She is the author of three sold-out books, and Blue Violet, her new book of photographs, drawings, and writing will be out in May. In this episode, we talk all about books, intuition, her photography process (hooray for “date nights” with photos!), and the importance of noticing in art making.…
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Mickey Guyton is a powerhouse vocalist and songwriter. In this conversation, we talked about being an introvert in the public eye, preparing for motherhood, mentorship, and The Bachelorette. We also talk about the urgency of leaning into who you are. As a Black woman in Country music —a traditionally white-and male-dominated industry— Mickey tells …
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Valerie June is a singer, songwriter, poet, and multi-instrumentalist. She also (so wonderfully) describes herself as a “professional dreamer.” In this episode she speaks on finding home on the road and within oneself, her writing practice, manifestation, and how to be a “light worker.” We also chat about being hermit-like, moving through sadness, …
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