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Publisher |: Mike Sakasegawa

Media Type |: audio

Podknife tags |: Arts,; Books,; Interview,; Photography,; Visual Arts

Categories Via RSS |: Arts,; Visual Arts

Making connections through conversation with the art, literature, and creative work that matters to us, and the people who make it. Hosted by writer and photographer Mike Sakasegawa, Keep the Channel Open is a series of in-depth and intimate conversations with artists, writers, and curators from across the creative spectrum.

People |: Mike Sakasegawa (@sakeriver)
Country Of Origin |: USA
Produced In |: San Diego, CA
Related Hashtags |: #ChannelOpenPod,; #KTCOBookClub
Frequency |: Monthly
Explicit |: Yes

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156 Available Episodes (156 Total) / Average duration: 01:07:13

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156 Available Episodes (156 Total)Average duration: 01:07:13

Mar 29, 2023

01:00:51

Joshua Burton is a poet and educator based in Houston, TX. The poems in Joshua’s debut collection, Grace Engine, ask what grace means in a hostile world of lynchings, mental illness, self-hate, and suicide. These poems offer no solace, yet nevertheless reach toward beauty and peace. In our conversation, Joshua and I talked about what a grace engine is, processing shame through poetry, and what can be unlocked by returning to the same subject in multiple poems. Then for the second segment, we talked about creating mythology as a way of honoring those whom history may have overlooked.

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Joshua Burton
Purchase Grace Engine: Brazos Bookstore (Houston, TX) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
Mike’s video review of Grace Engine
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Mono no aware
Lynching of Jim McIlherron
Lynching of Mary Turner
Lynching of Laura and L. D. Nelson (note: link contains graphic images)
Royal Robertson
William O’Neal
Keep the Channel Open - Episode 108: The Craft of the Literary Podcast Interview
Joshua Burton - Fracture Anthology
Roland Barthes - Camera Lucida
Toni Morrison - Song of Solomon
Lupe Fiasco - DROGAS Wave

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Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
Music: Podington Bear
Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo

Feb 22, 2023

00:57:19

For our latest KTCO Book Club episode, media critic Mel Thomas joins us for a conversation about Holly Black’s YA fantasy novel The Cruel Prince. In our conversation, we discuss the ways that craft in YA fiction is often dismissed or overlooked by both critics and readers, the dynamics of abuse and trauma in the novel, and being able to enjoy art on multiple levels.

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Music: Podington Bear
Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo

Jan 25, 2023

01:19:13

Gabrielle Bates is a poet based in Seattle, WA. Throughout Gabrielle’s debut collection, Judas Goat, there is a feeling of quiet, that the poems are almost being whispered to you. And yet it is not a soft or comforting quiet that these poems bring, but rather one that often contains a sense of menace. In our conversation, Gabrielle and I talked about that disquieting feeling, the slipperiness of memory, the poetics of attention, and how important narrative to her poetics. Then for the second segment, we discussed what literature and poetry can do.

[Recorded Jan 2, 2023]

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Gabrielle Bates
Purchase Judas Goat: books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/2023-releases/products/01-24-2023-bates-gabrielle-judas-goat">Open Books (Seattle, WA) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
Keep the Channel Open - Episode 123: KTCO Book Club - Song (with Gabrielle Bates)
Between the Covers - Claire Schwartz : Civil Service
Keep the Channel Open - Episode 134: Luther Hughes
Keep the Channel Open - Episode 120: Kazim Ali
Gabrielle Bates - Poetry Comics
Kazim Ali - “Know No Name”
Abi Pollokoff
Erin L. McCoy
Keep the Channel Open - Episode 112: Ross Sutherland
Benjamin Labatut - When We Cease to Understand the World

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Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
Music: Podington Bear
Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo

Dec 14, 2022

01:21:00

Abby Minor is a writer based in central Pennsylvania. In her debut book of poems, As I Said: A Dissent, Abby combines the historical narrative of Ann Lohman—a 19th-century abortion provider in New York City—with personal and family history, creating a collection of poems that challenge the typical notion of an abortion story. In our conversation, Abby and I talked about her approach to documentary poetry, why it was important to her to push back against conventional abortion discourse, and how art and activism intersect. Then in the second segment, we talked about American work culture and the necessity of rest.

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Music: Podington Bear
Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo

Nov 16, 2022

01:07:20

Molly Spencer is a poet based in Michigan. The poems in her collections In the House and Hinge engage with chronic illness, divorce, domesticity, motherhood, and the ways that our lives don’t always work out the way we expected them to. In our conversation, we talked about dissolution, the uses of poetry, ways of knowing, and speaking unlovely truths. Then for the second section, we talked about attention—both the kind of attention we’d like to cultivate in our own lives, and what kind of attention we ask of our readers.

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Purchase If the House: Literati (Ann Arbor, MI) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop
Purchase Hinge: Literati (Ann Arbor, MI) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop
me-picture-of-sun.html">Emily Dickinson - “Make me a picture of the sun”
Etel Adnan - Sea and Fog
Wallace Stevens - “The Snow Man”
Susan Glaspell - “A Jury of Her Peers”
Molly Spencer - “On ‘Most Accidents Occur At Home’”
Mary Oliver - “Yes! No!”
Solmaz Sharif - Customs
Dionne Brand - Nomenclature

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Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
Music: Podington Bear
Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo

Oct 26, 2022

01:02:44

Luther Hughes is a poet based in Seattle, WA. The poems in Luther’s debut collection, A Shiver in the Leaves, are tender, erotic, vulnerable, erudite, at times dark, and at times ecstatic. In our conversation, we talked about power dynamics in sexual encounters, different forms of love, and writing as a way of understanding oneself. Then in the second section, we talked about why so many sex scenes in popular media are so strange.

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Purchase A Shiver in the Leaves: books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/09-27-2022-hughes-luther-a-shiver-in-the-leaves?_pos=1&_sid=9d3a969c9&_ss=r">Open Books (Seattle, WA) | The Book Catapult (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
Brooklyn Poets Reading Series - Luther Hughes, Lynn Melnick, Carl Phillips
The Poet Salon
Lue’s Poetry Hour
Luther Hughes - “On Power”
Seattle Times - “Seattle poet Luther Hughes on ‘A Shiver in the Leaves,’ his debut collection”
Brandon Taylor - Real Life

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Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
Music: Podington Bear
Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo

Oct 05, 2022

01:19:33

André Ramos-Woodard is a photographic artist originally from Texas and Tennessee. In their series BLACK SNAFU, André combines photographs celebrating Blackness with appropriated illustrations from racist cartoons as a way of confronting the history and present reality of American racism. In our conversation we discussed appropriation, questions of audience and community, and mental health. Then in the second segment, we talked about what inspires us outside of the visual arts.

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Music: Podington Bear
Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo

Aug 31, 2022

01:09:38

Amanda Marchand is a Canadian, New York-based photographer. Amanda’s Lumen Notebook series is a body of elegant and strikingly beautiful images that nevertheless layer deep meaning within their seemingly simple compositions. In our conversation, Amanda and I talked about her process in creating these photograms and how working within strict constraints allows her to explore the technique more fully. We also discussed how she uses photography to facilitate connection and presence, and the duality of delight and mortality in her work. Then for the second segment we had a meandering conversation about autism, communication, attention, and using art to process and understand our emotional experiences.

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Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo

Jun 22, 2022

00:53:59

Fatemeh Baigmoradi is a photographic artist originally from Iran. In her series It’s Hard to Kill, Fatemeh works with archival family photos from Iran, using fire to obscure or destroy portions of the image—connecting to the way that her own family and many others burned their photos after the Iranian Revolution to protect themselves or others in the photos. In our conversation we talked about the relationship between photography and memory, censorship, and how violence, healing, and cleansing are all intertwined in Fatemeh’s work. Then in the second segment, Fatemeh and I talked about immigration.

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May 25, 2022

01:21:11

Sarah Hollowell is a writer based in Indiana. Sarah’s debut novel, A Dark and Starless Forest, is a YA contemporary fantasy story centered on a family of foster sisters learning about their magic, until suddenly they start disappearing. In our conversation we talked about the difference in process between short stories and novels, how her novel portrays abuse dynamics, and the importance of fan fiction. Then in the second segment, Sarah and I talked about the Alpha Workshop.

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Follow @sarahhollowell on Twitter
Purchase A Dark and Starless Forest: Viewpoint Books (Columbus, IN) | Mysterious Galaxy (San Diego, CA) | Bookshop.org
Alpha Young Writers Workshop
Ashley Schumacher - The Renaissance of Gwen Hathaway
Rude Tales of Magic

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Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
Music: Podington Bear
Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo

Mar 29 | 01:00:51

Episode 139: Joshua Burton

Feb 22 | 00:57:19

Episode 138: KTCO Book Club - The Cruel Prince (with Mel Thomas)

Jan 25 | 01:19:13

Episode 137: Gabrielle Bates

Dec 14 | 01:21:00

Episode 136: Abby Minor

Nov 16 | 01:07:20

Episode 135: Molly Spencer

Oct 26 | 01:02:44

Episode 134: Luther Hughes

Oct 05 | 01:19:33

Episode 133: André Ramos-Woodard

Aug 31 | 01:09:38

Episode 132: Amanda Marchand

Jun 22 | 00:53:59

Episode 131: Fatemeh Baigmoradi

May 25 | 01:21:11

Episode 130: Sarah Hollowell

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