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Season 2: Episode 2: Carmen Radley :|: creative river streams and reclaiming the forgotten
Season 2: Episode 2: Carmen Radley :|: creative river streams and reclaiming the forgotten
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108 minutes
Released:
Dec 14, 2023
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Podcast episode
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This episode features a conversation with host, Rhonda Willers, and guest, Carmen Radley I met Carmen through the online writing community and newsletter, The Isolation Journals, where she serves as the managing editor and host of the monthly writing hour called The Hatch. In this conversation you’ll hear how Carmen became a co-collaborator with the founder, author Suleika Jaouad, and how The Isolation Journals has evolved in so many beautiful ways. Carmen is based in Austin, Texas, and her family has been rooted in Texas since the early 1900s. Before coming to her present role and work, Carmen was a k-12 educator, hospital ship journalist, and professional biography writer. As we talked, she shared that her current personal project is focusing on reclaiming her hometown of Sour Lake, Texas, as a forgotten place. She is writing this book with no promise that it will be published, but this allows her to explore and evolve it before the pressures of the market come on it. Carmen’s love of literature and her poetics are so evident in this conversation - I can’t wait for you to experience it!Please enjoy this episode with Carmen Radley.To learn more about Carmen’s work follow her on Instagram via @theisolationjournals and check out the community at TheIsolationJournals.com and on substack: https://theisolationjournals.substack.comStudio Mix #14 :|: Carmen Radley Fast Car by Tracy ChapmanThe Promise by Sturgill Simpson (When in Rome cover)16, Maybe Less by Calexico, Iron & Wine Texas Sun by Khruangbin & Leon BridgesSummer's End by John PrineListen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2apnzasqONvzmEuhNMOjIDCarmen Radley’s Biography:Carmen Radley is the editor of the Isolation Journals. She’s currently writing a climate change memoir about her hometown of Sour Lake, Texas, an early twentieth-century oil boomtown where her family has worked in the oilfield for more than a century. A graduate of the University of Texas and Bennington College, she lives in Austin, Texas.Episode page: https://theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com
Released:
Dec 14, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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Trailer :|: The Artist In Me Is Dead Podcast: Hey There! Welcome to The Artist In Me Is Dead Podcast with host, Rhonda Willers. On The Artist In Me Is Dead Podcast I have conversations with guests tracing their creative paths and exploring their current and future creative practices. We discuss the ebbs and flows of creativity and what we can do when we feel creatively stuck. by The Artist In Me Is Dead