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I sat down with Miguel Reyna to talk about his production of The Thin Place at the Actors' Theater in Santa Cruz. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jake-j-thomas/messageSupport this podcast: https://podca
Juneteenth, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, Solstice, and more!This may be my best solo podcast yet.I discuss the Juneteenth event organized in Santa Cruz by Thairie Ritchie. I delve into the issues surrounding the Black Lives Matter mural that was
In this podcast, I discuss the power of supporting local businesses, artists, and media. If we want to build a bright and hopeful future, we must start at home by supporting the efforts of those within our own communities.--- Send in a voic
The Little Mermaid’s remake as a live action movie improves upon the original in several important respects. The racial diversity of the movie not only helps to invite more people into the fantasy, but it also makes it a more interesting story
SJSU’s MFA program held an opening for their exhibition “Liftoff” at Radius Gallery on Thursday and will participate in First Friday Santa Cruz on June 2nd 5-8:00pm with Artist Talks scheduled for Sunday the 4th at 3:30pm. 13 recently graduated
MAKING THE UNCONSCIOUS VISIBLEThe Radius Gallery at the Tannery in Santa Cruz recently hosted a group show entitled “What’s Home” organized by Andrew Purchin. This important and elegant exhibition sought to generate a conversation about one o
I start the podcast out listening to a couple of minutes of Fog Machine by White Reaper from their new album "Asking for a Ride." Next, I read a little bit from Don DeLillo's novel White Noise, recently made into a movie on Netflix that eerily
I have three big announcements to make.1. I am moving from the Westside of Santa Cruz after 8 fun-filled years of living here.2. I am clean and sober having given up alcohol and cannabis.3. My dear sweet father sadly passed away and I have b
Today, there is a crisis in the world. Well, actually there are lots, but I just want to focus on one to begin with. A solution to this particular crisis might offer auxiliary positive results for other problems. Drought is an existential prob
This is the most important sequence so far. In these poems, the poet delineates a poetics. In their description of form, the poet discusses the idea that less is more in the expression of love. This has been consistent throughout the poems. Con
The separation is complete. The poet speaks about the reputation of their beloved being both good and bad for the same reasons. They are praised for their youthful easygoing ways and criticized for them too.The poet meditates on what it is lik
This sequence of sonnets goes into the questionable relationship between appearance and reality, between beauty and goodness. He is still dependent upon the beloved for a sense of value, of self worth and in order maintain his own will to live
In this sequence, the poet is coming to terms with the finality of their separation. In the first poem, they discuss a recent writer's block and what caused it. Very specifically it was NOT the quality of his rival's poetry. In fact, they go to
The poet turns a corner and shares their thoughts about their worth in relation to other poets. The premise is that the poet believes they are superior in relation to other poets because they recognize the true worth of the beloved. A person so
This sequence delves into the poetics contained within this collection. It is here in the moment of recognizing the death of a relationship, after meditating on his own mortality, when the poet crystalizes their view of what matters most in poe
This cycle of sonnets delves into some thoughts of death, or uses thoughts of mortality to describe the process of breaking up. The poet spins out a bunch of metaphors describing their own exhaustion, the end of their time. They meditate on th
The poet reaches a truly dark place in this section of sonnets. Sonnet 66 begins with a suicidal pronouncement. The poet says "Tired with all these, for restful death I cry." And, following this terrible sentiment they issue a list of complai
Shakespeare can teach you how to survive the emotional dangers of love. The sonnets are instructive as much as they are beautiful. They are about how a poet can rise above their status through truthful expression. Love is a driving force, but i
Thanks for tuning into another episode of the Dialogic Podcast, the Changing the Conversation series.If you want to follow along, you can find the sonnets for free online at the Folger Shakespeare Library's online edition.In this sequence, Sh
Thanks for tuning into another episode of the Dialogic Podcast, the Changing the Conversation series.If you want to follow along, you can find the sonnets for free online at the Folger Shakespeare Library's online edition.This sequence starts
This cycle of sonnets begins with an image of the poet at war with himself. Heart and Eye are conflicted about the beloved. The eye is cautious, the heart demands connection and argues for the case. The conflict is staged as a kind of court cas
The poems take a dark turn as the poet wrestles with news of his beloved's infidelity. Understanding that his beloved is sleeping with a former lover, the poet is left to grapple with the emotions left behind. Depression results from their disc
In this sequence of poems, the persona addresses the infidelity of his beloved. He manages to always find a way to negate anything negative about their relations through the power of imaginative transformation. By claiming that they are united
References to sex abound in Shakespeare's sonnets. The persona of the poems is in love with a youth. It is mostly framed as an unrequited love story, due in part to Shakespeare's lower status. However, there are references that suggest they ha
What feels worse than unrequited love? Being slighted by your beloved. At least the persona of the poems seems to think so in this cycle of sonnets. Still, he finds a way to forgive his beloved and to justify their actions.One reason I have ch
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